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The headquarters of the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) is located at:
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Answer: Option B — Hyderabad
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The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) has its headquarters at Balanagar, Hyderabad, Telangana.
About the NRSC:
- It began in 1974 as the "National Remote Sensing Agency" (NRSA), an autonomous society under the Department of Science and Technology.
- In September 2008, it became a full-fledged centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), under the Department of Space, and was renamed the National Remote Sensing Centre.
- Its main ground station for receiving satellite data is at Shadnagar, near Hyderabad.
- It also has regional remote sensing centres at Bengaluru, Jodhpur, Kolkata, Nagpur and New Delhi.
Its functions:
- It receives, processes, archives and distributes data from Indian and foreign remote sensing satellites.
- It provides data and services for mapping natural resources, land use, agriculture, forests, water resources, urban planning and the environment.
- It supports disaster management through the "Decision Support Centre", providing satellite images and maps during floods, cyclones, earthquakes and forest fires.
- It runs the "Bhuvan" geoportal (2009), ISRO's web-based platform for viewing satellite images and maps of India.
- It conducts aerial surveys.
About remote sensing in India:
- Remote sensing means gathering information about the Earth's surface from a distance, using sensors on satellites or aircraft.
- India's first experimental remote sensing satellite was "Bhaskara-I" (1979).
- "IRS-1A" (1988) was India's first operational remote sensing satellite.
- Important series: Resourcesat, Cartosat (for mapping), Oceansat, RISAT (radar imaging) and EOS (Earth Observation Satellites).
- The "NISAR" satellite, a joint mission of NASA and ISRO, was launched in July 2025.
Other ISRO centres:
- Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre: Thiruvananthapuram.
- U R Rao Satellite Centre: Bengaluru.
- Space Applications Centre: Ahmedabad.
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre: Sriharikota.
- Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS): Dehradun (1966); trains people in remote sensing.
Why not the other options?
- ✗Bengaluru has the ISRO headquarters and the U R Rao Satellite Centre.
- ✗Ahmedabad has the Space Applications Centre.
- ✗Dehradun has the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing.
Quick tip
Remember: National Remote Sensing Centre = Hyderabad (1974 as NRSA; ISRO centre since 2008; ground station Shadnagar; "Bhuvan" portal); IIRS = Dehradun; SAC = Ahmedabad; IRS-1A = 1988; NISAR = 2025.
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