ISRO plans on developing next high-resolution Earth observation satellite

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is currently planning to build the agency’s next remote sensing satellite, Cartosat-3, which is expected to replace GeoEye-1.

At present, the GeoEye-1 satellite produces the highest resolution Earth images taken by a commercial satellite. The spacecraft is capable of taking panchromatic images with a resolution of 0.41 meters. But under the regulations of the United States, commercially released images should be degraded to 0.5 meters.

WorldView-3 satellite is scheduled to be released on 2014 by DigitalGlobe, which merged with GeoEye at the beginning of 2013. The satellite is expected to produce images with a resolution of 0.31 meters. But ISRO said that the camera of Cartosat-3 satellite would produce even better images with a resolution of 0.25 meters and take the highest resolution images of the Earth.

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