The Department of Space of the Indian government released a
draft 'Space Remote Sensing Policy 2020' and 'Norms,
Guidelines and Procedures to implement the Space RS Policy
2020' in November 2020. This blogpost discusses our comments to
this draft policy, which we have also submitted to the Department
of Space .
Introduction: In November 2020, The Department
of Space of the Indian government
released a draft 'Space Remote Sensing Policy 2020' and
'Norms, Guidelines and Procedures to implement the Space RS
Policy 2020'. One of the biggest reforms introduced in this new
Space RS Policy is that it will allow Indian private sector
entities to disseminate remote sensing data. This will liberalize
the earth observation data and remote sensing data industry in
India to a large extent. Earlier, under ISRO's Remote Sensing
Data Policy of 2011, only the 'National Remote Sensing
Centre' under ISRO could acquire and disseminate remote sensing
data in India from both Indian and
