Measurements and Applications
1b Provides data for: monitoring land use/ land cover, forest cover, coastal zones and wastelands; identification of prospective ground water zones; and crop acreage and production estimation for wheat, rice, sorghum, cotton, groundnut, tobacco, etc.
Full Name
Linear imaging Self Scanner - I
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
High resolution optical imagers 
Geometry
Nadir-viewing
Instrument Technology
High resolution optical imager
Sampling
Imaging
Waveband
VIS: 0.46 - 0.52 µm, 0.52 - 0.59 µm, 0.62 - 0.68 µm, NIR: 0.77 - 0.86 µm
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
IRS-1A - Indian Remote Sensing Satellite - 1A (1988 - 1994) |
| IRS-1B - Indian Remote Sensing Satellite - 1B (1991 - 2002) |