{"id":35733,"date":"2018-11-01T11:34:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35733"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:34:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:04:50","slug":"isro-to-develop-full-fledged-earth-observation-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-to-develop-full-fledged-earth-observation-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO to develop full-fledged earth observation satellite:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/isro-to-develop-full-fledged-earth-observation-satellite\/article19460616.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISRO to develop full-fledged earth observation satellite<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new set of future satellites called Hyperspectral Imaging Satellites is set to add a new dimension to the way India will be seen from about 600 km in space.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Explanation:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) says it plans to launch a full-fledged niche earth observation (EO) satellite called the Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite or HySIS using a critical chip it has developed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no specific time-frame yet for its launch but meanwhile, the new chip, technically called an \u201coptical imaging detector array,\u201d that they have created for it would be tested and perfected.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Features of the Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The satellite can see in 55 spectral or colour bands from 630 km above ground.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hyperspectral or hyspex imaging is said to be an earth observation trend that is being experimented globally.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adding a new dimension to plain-vanilla optical imagers, it can be used for a range of activities from monitoring the environment, crops, looking for oil and minerals all the way up to military surveillance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Hyspex\u2019 imaging is said to enable distinct identification of objects, materials or processes on earth by reading the spectrum for each pixel of a scene from space.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISRO to develop full-fledged earth observation satellite: Context: A new set of future satellites called Hyperspectral Imaging Satellites is set to add a new dimension to the way India will be seen from about 600 km in space. Explanation: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) says it plans to launch a full-fledged niche earth observation&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-to-develop-full-fledged-earth-observation-satellite\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISRO to develop full-fledged earth observation satellite:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704856761},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}