E-books

National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC) focusing on promotion of Remote Sensing Technology and Applications among users in India, has brought out a book on "Remote Sensing Applications" covering land, water, atmosphere and natural disasters. The book was Compiled and Edited by P.S. Roy, R.S Dwivedi and D.Vijayan. The book covers 16 chapters addressing various applications starting with introduction, state of art technology, case studies, literature review, future trends besides providing relevant references which are more useful for operational scientists and researchers. The resource scientists from Remote Sensing & GIS Applications Area have contributed these chapters. The book was published as training material for distribution to course participants attending 12 weeks course at NRSC, Hyderabad. The book contains 397 pages in 16 chapters and the same is placed in NRSC website so that users can view/download chapter wise as per their needs.

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Document	Authors	Links
Agriculture	Sesha Sai MVR, Ramana KV & Hebbar R
Land use and Land cover Analysis	Sudhakar S & Kameshwara Rao SVC
Forest and Vegetation	Murthy MSR and Jha CS
Soils	Land Degradation By Ravishankar T & Sreenivas
Urban and Regional Planning	Venugopal Rao K,Ramesh B,Bhavani SVL & Kamini
Water Resources Management	Rao VV & Raju PV
Geosciences	Vinod Kumar K & Arindam Guha
Ground Water	Subramanian SK & Seshadri K
Oceans	Ali MM, Rao KH, Rao MV & Sridhar PN
Atmosphere	Badrinath KVS
Cyclones	Ali MM
Flood Disaster Management	Bhanumurthy V, Manjusree P & Srinivasa Rao
Agricultural Drought Monitoring and Assesment	Murthy CS & Sesha Sai MVR
Landslides	Vinod Kumar K & Tapas RM
Earthquake and Active Faults	Vinod Kumar K
Active forest fire monitoring using satellite data provides timely information on fires to State Forest Departments across India for forest fire control and management activities. Active fire monitoring uses satellite data from MODIS flying on the TERRA and AQUA spacecraft and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite data from the Suomi National Polar- orbiting Partnership (SNPP-VIIRS). Satellite data is received and processed at IMGEOS, NRSC in near real-time.	Biswadip Gharai, Badrinath KVS & Murthy MSR

The Indian Earth Observation Programme, over the past three decades, has successfully launched and operated a series of Indian Remote Sensing satellites with coarse, medium and high resolution sensors with the best spatial resolution achieved being 2.5m.

Document	Links
Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission User Manual