How This Satellite Created by ISRO Helped Indian Soldiers during the Surgical Strike

[JANASENA]

Recently, it was revealed, half a dozen satellites developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation were used to obtain ground information for the surgical strike carried out by Indian soldiers on terrorist camps in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.

The Cartosat 2 C satellite was launched on June 22nd by ISRO in Ahmedabad. According toPTI reports, the satellite can count the number of cars in a parking lot from a distance of 562 km.

Source: ISRO

The satellite circles around Earth in 90 minutes and can produce images with a striking resolution of 0.65 metres. Compared to this, Pakistan does not have an impressive space program and China’s best satellites also do not have such a good resolution.

Kiran Kumar, chairman of ISRO, told PTI, “The Cartosat 2 series has a unique capability of capturing a 1-minute video, which despite its enormous speed of 37 km a second, is able to focus at a single point for a minute.”

A surgical strike is distinct from other ways of attacking an enemy because the mission should be completed  with minimal collateral damage and casualties. In such cases, it is essential that the army receive highly detailed intelligence information. The Cartosat series is designed to provide such accurate information.

While such satellites are important during violent conflicts for providing Area of Interest (AoI) based information to the armed forces, they also find use in urban planning and spotting nefarious activities such as illegal mining.

ISRO has more than 17,000 people working on products to improve the lives of Indians and protect the borders of our country. Its products are sold to many user agencies. The former chairman of ISRO, K Kasturirangan, said, “The space agency has a formidable suit of technologies and all are suitably deployed with each user agency utilising the assets to their best advantage.”

Apart from the Cartosat satellite, a 2000 kg satellite called GSAT-6 is used by the Indian Armed Forces. The GSAT- 6 is capable of streaming videos in both directions.

This satellite was developed last year  for defence surveillance, network-centric warfare and navigation. If a soldier mounts a camera on his helmet, he can use a hand-held device, which is linked to the GSAT-6, to relay images/ information even while engaged in combat. According to reports, similar technology was used by the US to monitor live feed of Operation Geronimo, in which Osama Bin Laden was assassinated.

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[Naaperushiva]

23 minutes ago, JANASENA said:

Recently, it was revealed, half a dozen satellites developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation were used to obtain ground information for the surgical strike carried out by Indian soldiers on terrorist camps in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.

The Cartosat 2 C satellite was launched on June 22nd by ISRO in Ahmedabad. According toPTI reports, the satellite can count the number of cars in a parking lot from a distance of 562 km.

Source: ISRO

The satellite circles around Earth in 90 minutes and can produce images with a striking resolution of 0.65 metres. Compared to this, Pakistan does not have an impressive space program and China’s best satellites also do not have such a good resolution.

Kiran Kumar, chairman of ISRO, told PTI, “The Cartosat 2 series has a unique capability of capturing a 1-minute video, which despite its enormous speed of 37 km a second, is able to focus at a single point for a minute.”

A surgical strike is distinct from other ways of attacking an enemy because the mission should be completed  with minimal collateral damage and casualties. In such cases, it is essential that the army receive highly detailed intelligence information. The Cartosat series is designed to provide such accurate information.

While such satellites are important during violent conflicts for providing Area of Interest (AoI) based information to the armed forces, they also find use in urban planning and spotting nefarious activities such as illegal mining.

ISRO has more than 17,000 people working on products to improve the lives of Indians and protect the borders of our country. Its products are sold to many user agencies. The former chairman of ISRO, K Kasturirangan, said, “The space agency has a formidable suit of technologies and all are suitably deployed with each user agency utilising the assets to their best advantage.”

Apart from the Cartosat satellite, a 2000 kg satellite called GSAT-6 is used by the Indian Armed Forces. The GSAT- 6 is capable of streaming videos in both directions.

This satellite was developed last year  for defence surveillance, network-centric warfare and navigation. If a soldier mounts a camera on his helmet, he can use a hand-held device, which is linked to the GSAT-6, to relay images/ information even while engaged in combat. According to reports, similar technology was used by the US to monitor live feed of Operation Geronimo, in which Osama Bin Laden was assassinated.

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1 minute ago, Naaperushiva said:

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[DrPepper]

if this is really helpful to army and enemies dont have this tech they should have kept quite. i dont understand why they made it public

[BulletBaskar]

4 minutes ago, DrPepper said:

if this is really helpful to army and enemies dont have this tech they should have kept quite. i dont understand why they made it public

i guess mana presstitue gallu aa ISRO lo evarkaina paisal ichi untaru info leak cheyaniki 

[sattipandu]

i guess this satellite's primary mission isnt spying

CARTO-SAT's are primarily for cartography , as far as naming conventions seems to suggest.

If this was a pure spy satellite and its resolution is as stated above , it isnt that great.

western satellites can even read car's plate number from orbit, we still have a lot to improve upon. Yet this input from ISO should be appreciated  

[iddaritho]

6 hours ago, sattipandu said:

i guess this satellite's primary mission isnt spying

CARTO-SAT's are primarily for cartography , as far as naming conventions seems to suggest.

If this was a pure spy satellite and its resolution is as stated above , it isnt that great.

western satellites can even read car's plate number from orbit, we still have a lot to improve upon. Yet this input from ISO should be appreciated  

I don't think they have satellite that can read the car plates , as it is difficult with atmosphere and otters obstacles , also angle used to view is difficult i think 

They use drones to spy i think and they have stealth setting to avoid radar 

[Spartan]

7 hours ago, DrPepper said:

if this is really helpful to army and enemies dont have this tech they should have kept quite. i dont understand why they made it public

 

7 hours ago, BulletBaskar said:

i guess mana presstitue gallu aa ISRO lo evarkaina paisal ichi untaru info leak cheyaniki 

 

thats open known secret for most of the countries do that.

[Idassamed]

7 hours ago, DrPepper said:

if this is really helpful to army and enemies dont have this tech they should have kept quite. i dont understand why they made it public

+111

[sattipandu]

15 minutes ago, iddaritho said:

I don't think they have satellite that can read the car plates , as it is difficult with atmosphere and otters obstacles , also angle used to view is difficult i think 

They use drones to spy i think and they have stealth setting to avoid radar 

recently read a paper that deals with spatial recognition algorithm and this was  our university's research paper, so i'm pretty sure they are using much more advanced version algorithms in military applications  to blend different images from multiple satellite sources with multiple angles at a source and auto determine

i will try to post an open source article version of that paper

drones by nature have a very small radar crosssection almost the size of a medium size bird even without stealth factored in so thats a different game altogether