ENFIRE system for the war fighter; imagery for hunting down the sandal wood
smuggler, for detecting opium farms, for checking border violations, tracking
Naxalites, monitoring terrorist training camps; geoid measurements for a better
DEM...to aid smart bombs and surface skimming missiles... A large number of
graves owe their existence to WW-I aerial reconnaissance, a few undiscovered
even today as the 'unmapped' trenches swallowed the crawling soldiers.
At the other end of the spectrum, we have routing application to effectively navigate ambulances, search and rescue,
disaster prevention and mitigation, environment monitoring and remediation,
natural resource exploration and exploitation.. the list of GIS applications goes
on...all for the betterment of life.
Food for thought - While ''
US to kill domestic satellite spying'',
''
CRPF to take help of ISRO in India to fight Maoists'' ...was a comment from one
of our readers - so what say you?
Hrishikesh Samant
