Remote Sensing Instruments: Pioneers in the GIS and Remote Sensing Sector

CIO Vendor Utilization of geo-informatics in various sector has seen an exponential raise over the years and the future looks very promising in India. GIS and Remote Sensing, two key disciplines, being increasingly utilised in planning and decision making across various verticals like urban planning, Agriculture, Forestry, Natural Resources, Defence and securities, location-based services etc. RS and GIS, utilised as a planning tool, can be used across a personal level, institutional level, state and central government level. Availability of satellite data and clear visualisation is the prime requirement of every GIS application. But, India still has significant advancements to be made in this sector. Users encounter critical challenges such as inaccurate data, policy limitations, time constraints etc. Users also need an experienced solution provider with a proven comprehensive suite of solutions. However, recent changes in policies and introductions of IN-SPACe should pave an easy way for all the players across the ecosystem.

Remote Sensing Instruments(RSI) has been the torchbearer of this sector with a market presence of over 35 years and working with diverse domains across the country. RSI has carved a niche for itself as an innovative and futuristic GIS and Remote Sensing Technology provider with executing over 500 projects across the globe. “Maps has been our interest right from our inception and RSI has been building various Enterprise and Web GIS based information system and Maps take a lion share in these systems. We offer a wide spectrum of Mapping Services for multiple domains. Our maps are made with high accuracy and are visually beautiful and interactive. About Seven years ago, we prepared an atlas for Goa State at 1:5000 scale for Natural Resources and Agriculture, I don’t think any other company will be able do at this scale at least now or for the next five years,” reveals a proud Kumar VR Buragadda, CEO at RSI.

An end-to-end Solution Provider
Right from its inception, RSI has worked with a multitude of clients that have availed the company’s bouquet of services and also takes the pride to be the first company to introduce GIS and RS for many clients across state and central governments which in-turn helped them to achieve best results and solve complex problems they have been facing for ages. RSI has been instrumental in policy making and defining guidelines for various sectors like mining, forestry and urban planning.

Being a leading Geo spatial and geo Analytical Technology provider, we offer a full stack GIS and RS Services such as Data Acquisition/Survey, Data Processing, Geo Spatial Data Analysis, Mapping, Software Development, Photogrammetry, Monitoring and also hardware, software
and imagery for an efficient and effective utilization.

Ahead of its time, RSI has started large scale urban mapping using high resolution satellite and aerial data and has mapped over 300 ULB’s over the past 20 years.

“Satellite data based Monitoring has gained its importance in various sectors and it can be termed as a promising future in GIS and RS industry. RSI has been investing on various new age technologies and achieved greater efficiencies in monitoring Urban, Infrastructure, Forestry, Mining and Agriculture assets. RSI has taken an active part in Monitoring and Evaluation of various Government Project/Program funded by World Bank/ADB/JICA and UN. RSI has been monitoring over 500 Water-shed projects under IMWP/PMKSY for Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh for the past 10 years. RSI has been involved in Ocean colour and sea surface temperature Monitoring, Snow Cover and Glacier Monitoring, Crop Monitoring and Urban Monitoring projects across India” Adds Kumar.


Remote Sensing Instruments (RSI) has been the torchbearer of this sector with a market presence of over 35 years and working with diverse domains across the country

RSI has been the frontrunner in introducing various world class products in India. Product sales and related services has been their forte, RSI has introduced and sold ERDAS in India. RSI has recently joined forces with Capella Space, an on-demand earth observation information services company based out California, USA. Capella Space is a SAR Satellite data provider who aim is to provide data across the globe at a highest revisit rate of 1 hour with sub 0.5m resolution across the globe. RSI has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with Capella Space for their product sales and other services in India and parts of Asia-Pac.

In addition to this, RSI has also partnered with Urthecaste based out of Canada, Deimos Imaging of Spain and KazEOSat of Kazakhstan for their product sales and also to build services using their products. With all of these partnerships and upcoming partnerships in pipeline, RSI is well positioned to play a significant role in Earth Observations Stream in India and Asia. Combining all of these satellites and their capabilities, Very high resolution data with high revisit rate will be available to everyone everyday unlike previous processes where the data takes a massive amount of time to be furnished to the end user. The company is investing on designing and developing a fully automated platform using new age technologies like AI and Machine learning for effective Monitoring and Change Detection.