The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) intends to acquire geo-intelligence by launching fifty satellites over the course of the next five years. Speaking yesterday at Techfest, an annual science and technology event hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, ISRO Chairman S Somanath stated that this will involve building a layer of satellites in various orbits that will be able to image thousands of kilometres and track the movement of troops.
According to Somanath, India’s existing satellite fleet is insufficient to fulfil its aspirations of becoming a powerful nation; it should be ten times larger. Additionally, he stated that it was critical to increase satellites’ capacity for change detection, introduce more artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven methods for data analysis, minimise data downloads, and obtain only the information that was required.