PARLIAMENT QUESTION: SATELLITE-BASED DISASTER MONITORING MECHANISMS

• India's disaster monitoring is anchored in ISRO/Department of Space (DoS) tasking of Indian Earth Observation Satellites (EOS) to capture data over affected/at-risk zones.
• For severe events, ISRO activates the International Charter on Space & Major Disasters, pooling data from 17 member agencies and 16 data contributors.
• Examinable because it cross-cuts GS-III (Disaster Management + Sci-Tech) and GS-II (international cooperation), with a tested vocabulary (INSAT-3DR/3DS, Oceansat-3, NDEM, Bhuvan).