In the early 1970s and 1980s Landsat MSS data were used
for land use and land cover mapping and hydrogeomorphological interpretation. Afterwards IRS-1C PAN
data (the highest resolution within the earth's resources
satellites, 5.8m ground resolution) were used for research.
Now a major facility is the Advanced Meteorological Satellite
Ground Station (AMSGS) for receiving real time high and low
resolution data/imagery from meteorological satellites like
NOAA of USA and Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
(GMS) of Japan. These data are being used for day to day
weather forecasting and, agro-climatic environmental
monitoring, as well as water resource studies. SPARRSO has
acquired sophisticated digital image processing systems for
analyzing both meteorological and resource satellite data. The
digital images are processed with ERDAS software. GIS
facilities include softwares - Mainframe ARC/INFO, ERIM
GIS (Raster), IDRISI (Raster). Apart from the GMS and
NOAA ground receiving stations, SPARRSO facilities include
Microvax 3400 Computers, Pentium III PCs, ERDAS
Imagine, and PC ARC/INFO. It has a well equipped
photographic laboratory, photogrammetric equipment and
groundtruthing equipment. The SPARRSO has technical
capabilities, trained manpower and allied facilities for
receiving, processing, analyzing, archiving and utilizing aerial
photographs and satellite data