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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- IRS-1B
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Full Name
Indian Remote Sensing Satellite - 1B
Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
ISRO
Launch Date
29 Aug 1991
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
31 Aug 2002
EO Portal Info
NORAD Catalog #
21688
(
TLE
)
International Designator
1991-061A
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
101 minutes
Orbit Sense
Descending
Orbit Inclination
99 deg
Orbit Altitude
904 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
10:30
Repeat Cycle
26 days
Objectives and Applications
Land surface, agriculture and forestry, regional geology, land use studies, water resources, vegetation studies, coastal studies and soils.
Mission Measurements
Category
Parameter
Instrument(s)
Land
Albedo and reflectance
LISS-II
Landscape topography
LISS-II
Vegetation
LISS-II
Multi-purpose imagery (land)
LISS-II
Snow & Ice
Snow cover, edge and depth
LISS-II
Mission Instruments
LISS-I - Linear imaging Self Scanner - I
LISS-II - Linear Imaging Self Scanner - II
OpenSearch Datasets
Selected IDN OpenSearch Results
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)
Data Products for the Indian Remote Sensing Satellites
Decadal Land Use and Land Cover Classifications across India, 1985, 1995, 2005
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