A grant of INR 50 crore has been sanctioned for developing India’s geo-imaging satellite or GISAT. The 1,000-kg satellite will be put in space by a PSLV rocket. GISAT will provide images of the areas of interest on near real time basis. It will also keep a watch over the country’s sensitive borders.
GISAT will be fixed in a geo-stationary orbit, always looking over the same region and synchronised to the earth’s 24-hour rotation. GISAT will provide images every five minutes unlike other remote-sensing satellites, which view a particular area for barely ten minutes and do not visit the same place for the next one, three or five days
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