NASA-ISRO Mission Will Map Farmland From Planting to Harvest. The NASA-ISRO SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite will be launched soon and acquire radar over the entire land area of the Earth (except a few places near the poles). One objective is mapping agriculture. #NASA #ISRO #radar #satellite #SAR #agriculture
Image from Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR. Credit: ESA; processing and visualization by Earth Big Data LLC. See alt text for more info.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-isro-mission-will-map-farmland-from-planting-to-harvest/
@EricFielding Do you know when the launch is going to happen?
@felixcremer No, I don't know the launch date. It will be launched on an ISRO rocket (GSLV Mark II), so ISRO will make the final launch date decision in collaboration with NASA.
@felixcremer Official news about the launch date will be posted on the NASA blog about NISAR:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/nisar/
I will not post a "scoop" of that news here.
@EricFielding Thanks for the link. I was not looking for a scoop. I just didn't find the blog post on the NISAR site and heard something about a launch in march recently.
@felixcremer Yes, the NISAR.jpl.nasa.gov web pages should include a link to the NASA NISAR blog. The launch date is an obvious question that everybody wants to know. I hope they post an update on the blog soon.