NISAR is a collaboration between NASA
and the Indian Space Research Organisation.
NISAR is a radar satellite mission
to measure earthquakes and volcanoes, ice
sheets and sea ice, forests, ecosystems and any other thing
that's changing at the scale of a centimeter
on the earth.
We are working together and it's a great mission.
It is going to be with
the two different kinds of radar images that it is going to take
and give a lot of science data for all the science
community who are going to look at Earth in a different perspective.
So we can effectively make three dimensional movies of the deformation
or the movement of the earth down to millimeter
or centimeter scales.
NISAR is being built as two parts.
The payload is being built at JPL, and the second part will be a spacecraft,
which is getting right now realized that ISRO.
NISAR is going
to get launched from our launch pad at Sriharikota.
The entire world is excited to see what comes out of NISAR.
NASA's Earth System Observatory
consists of a series of earth focused missions that will work together
and complement each other to produce a holistic 3D view of the earth.
NISAR is going to be the trailblazer for this observatory.
We're going to learn more about processes related to climate change and assist
decision makers
and planners to mitigate natural hazards and manage natural resources.
These data will make a major difference in understanding the earth
and helping future generations live sustainable
lives.
NISAR is a mix of the two cultures,
and it's nice to see that we are almost the same.
I'm sure the outcome is going to be something beautiful.
We have taken the best of both the worlds and try to put into NISAR
because we see something very beautiful getting realized every day.