COMMISSION VII
Resource and Environmental Monitoring

PRESIDENT			Secretary
	Dr RANGNATH NAVALGUND National Remote Sensing Agency Balanagar,Hyderabad 500 037 India Tel: +91 40 387 8360 Fax: +91 40 387 7210 Email: rangnath@nrsa.gov.in Email: director@nrsa.gov.in			SHAILESH NAYAK Space Applications Centre (ISRO) Remote Sensing Applications Area, SAC Jodhpur Terra, 380 015 Ahmedabad India Tel: +91 79 677 41 41 Fax: +91 79 676 27 35 Email: shaileshnayak@hotmail.com

TERMS OF REFERENCE

• Spectral, spatial, and temporal radiation properties of objects
• Methodology of computer-aided interpretation and analysis of sensor data
• Environmental studies, resource inventories, and interpretative aspects of thematic mapping as applied in studies of vegetation,forestry, agriculture, soils, land and water use, geology, geomorphology, hydrology, oceanography, coastal zones, snow and ice, atmospheric sciences, archaeology, human settlements and engineering
• Integration of remote sensing and GIS techniques for spectral, spatial, temporal, and process modeling, and monitoring of resources and the environment
• Applications of remotely sensed data for disaster monitoring, mitigation and assessment
• Use of remotely sensed data and global databases to support sustainable development and application in determination of indices of change to support global modeling and monitoring

WORKING GROUPS