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LISS-III (Resourcesat)
Four-band passive optical multispectral imager flown on Resourcesat missions for land and vegetation observation.
LISS-III (Linear Imaging Self-Scanning Sensor 3) is a four-band passive optical multispectral imager developed by ISRO for the Resourcesat series of land observation satellites.[1][2] It provides medium-resolution imagery suited to regional land cover mapping, vegetation monitoring, and agricultural assessment.
The instrument records Green (555 nm), Red (650 nm), Near-Infrared (815 nm), and Shortwave Infrared (1625 nm) bands at 23.5 m spatial resolution with a 141 km swath, capturing scenes at 10-bit radiometric depth.[2][1] WMO OSCAR records the swath as 141 km; eoPortal documentation for Resourcesat-2 cites 140 km for the same configuration.[2][3]
LISS-III flies on Resourcesat-2 and Resourcesat-2A alongside the higher-resolution LISS-IV and the wider-swath AWiFS instruments, providing a middle-resolution tier within the three-sensor Resourcesat imaging complement.[1][3] Its four-band spectral coverage, including the SWIR channel, supports vegetation index computation, land use change detection, agricultural crop monitoring, and burned area assessments.[3]
Compositional position
- Vegetation index mappingvia Resourcesat-2
LISS-III has VIS/NIR/SWIR bands and WMO lists NDVI and vegetation variables among primary objectives.
- Optical time-series change detection
LISS-III repeat optical land imaging supports change-detection workflows.
- [1]LISS-3 (ResourceSat) - WMO OSCAR instrument recordagency doc2026-06-15
- [2]RESOURCESAT-2 - ISROagency doc2026-06-15
- [3]Resourcesat-2 mission - eoPortalcommunity2026-06-15