Measurements and Applications
Vegetation and crop monitoring, resource assessment (regional scale), forest mapping, land cover/ land use mapping, and change detection.
Full Name
Wide Field Sensor
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) 
Geometry
Steerable viewing
Instrument Technology
Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer
Sampling
Imaging
Resolution
188 m
[Best Resolution: 188m]
Swath
810 km
[Max Swath: 810 km]
Waveband
2 channels: R-IR
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
| SWIR (~1.3 µm - ~3.0 µm) |
IRS-1C - Indian Remote Sensing Satellite - 1C (1995 - 2007) |
| IRS-P3 - Indian Remote Sensing Satellite - P3 (1996 - 2003) |
| IRS-1D - Indian Remote Sensing Satellite - 1D (1997 - 2010) |
| IRS-P4 - OCEANSAT-1 (1999 - 2010) |