India is set to launch a new generation satellite that can help map the entire country in six months and give cartographic applications a new dimension.
ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said Cartosat-1 is the first of its kind in the world and the high-resolution camera systems would take stereoscopic pictures for mapping applications and take them in different angles.
In other words, the satellite can spot and take pictures of any object that is 2.5 metres in size on the earth’s surface.
“The images taken by the satellite would be precise, more explicit and accurate,” an ISRO scientist said.
Making this happen would be two advanced pachromatic cameras, with a spatial resolution of 2.5 metre and a swath of 30 km each, equipped in the spacecraft built by ISRO scientists. "The launch may take place by April end or early May," Nair said.