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[size="6"]ISRO may launch forestry satellite by 2013[/size]









Major initiative:Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests

Jairam Ramesh watches a presentation at the National Atmospheric Research

Laboratory in Gadanki near Tirupati on Sunday. He is flanked by Planning

Commission member K. Kasturi Rangan and ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan.









TIRUPATI: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, has announced that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch a dedicated forestry satellite in all likelihood by 2013.



With the biennial exercise in vogue, the facility will help to continuously monitor the forest cover, health and diversity.



Similarly, efforts are on to launch an indigenous satellite for monitoring greenhouse gases and aerosol emissions, which will place India in a select league.





India, one of the largest carbon sinks in the globe, had added three million hectares to its forest cover between 1997 and 2007, when Brazil lost 25 million hectares, according to satellite imagery.



http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/08/stories/...101600.htm .