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Developments in Digital Mapping from Indian Space Borne Line Scanner Imagery: IRS-1C to Cartosats

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The capability of IRS-1C mission of ISRO to acquire imagery of Earth’s surface from multiple orbits to form a stereo pair creates a possibility to recreate the terrain topography and to indulge in digital topographic mapping from space borne line scanner imagery. The scientific exercises leading to use of IRS-1C stereo imagery, specifically development of algorithms and software for assimilating orbit and attitude data sets in photogrammetric relations are summarized in this review paper. Further developments in this direction attributed to conceptualization, design and operational exploitation of Cartosat-1 as a dedicated cartography mission are summarized. A number of technologies like stereo strip triangulation for working with long strips, parametric modeling of image to ground relations through rational polynomial coefficients and for obtaining relative undulations without the use of ground control points developed for Cartosat-1 and other missions of Cartosat series are summarized. Brief description of some large scale operational solutions for extracting three-dimensional elevation model from Cartosat-1 data like CartoDEM, SAPHIRE, Karnataka GIS framework is provided. Some future possibilities are explored.

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  1. KGIS is a program of Govt. of Karnataka to induce geospatial in governance. It is executed by KSRSAC, e-Governance. Content is based on details provided by Dr. DK Prabhuraj, Director of KSRSAC.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the efforts undertaken by the unknown referees, whose critical commentary has helped the authors in improving the presentation and sharpening the conclusions. The authors feel honored to be invited to present their perspective in the Special publication of JISRS dedicated to 25 years of IRS-1C launch.

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Srivastava, P.K., Gopala Krishna, B. Developments in Digital Mapping from Indian Space Borne Line Scanner Imagery: IRS-1C to Cartosats. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 49, 41–59 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-020-01293-3

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