Dr. A.

Senthil Kumar
Director, IIRS

Distance Education Program -2015

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Source: Wageningen
 SARAL

BHASKARA 1& 2

RISAT -1

IRS 1A/1B

Megha Tropiques

IRS 1C/1D

TES
Cartosat 2A Cartosat 2B
Oceansat 1 &2 Resourcesat 1 & 2 Cartosat 1
 Source: National Academy of Sciences, 2004
Multi-disciplinary EO chain
- Dynamic technology, multi-disciplinary, multi-dimensional, fast changing
- End-to-end characterisation from raw data acquisition to data processing and
to end-use applications
- Continuing need for efforts on R&D and challenges to make it operational

Ultimately, value of Information is its ability to reduce uncertainty

in decision-making at the user-end.
 Action

Analyst
Exploitation &
Knowledge
Discovery

Human-Computer nt.
Visualization, Machine
Learning

Smart Databases
CBIR, Intell. Agents, Sematic Mining

Information Fusion
Multi-source, Multi-INT (signals,Human, etc)

Automated Processing
ATR, Co-registration, Change Detection, Target Tracking

Remote Sensing Source

PAN, MS, Hyperspectral, SAR, INSAR, IR, LIDAR, Video, Gravity
 Advanced Sensors
gather geospatial
data

Processing a variety of
geospatial data such as
raster images, Lidar point
clouds, GIS, vectors,
radar and even
hyperspectral data

Invaluable products to all

application users
conducting vegetation
mapping, feature
extraction, change
detection and object
recognition
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Operational Employment Statistics @www.bls.gov/oes/home.htm
Geo-Spatial Technology Road Map

Defense
Surveillance Disaster Risk
Internet of Management
Things

Smart
Automobiles Some Challenges ahead
- Two-thirds of the World is yet to be mapped..
- 2D/3D city maps, Road and Utility Networks,
Smart Thematic maps
Cities
- Integration of disparate sources, applications
and data bases in real time.