The Indian Space Research Organisation on Wednesday released images captured by high resolution cameras onboard the country's latest remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2A.

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The satellite weighing 1.2 tonne was placed in orbit by a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV- 36) on December 7.

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Isro has released a set of seven images captured on December 15 by the satellite's high resolution cameras -- LISS-3 and LISS-4 -- with a spatial resolution of 5.8m and 23.5m. The satellites is in an 818km polar sun synchronous orbit.

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The cameras has captured images of Vadodara, Daman and Jambughoda wildlife sanctuary and its surrounding areas in Gujarat. Apart from these places, surrounding reservoirs and lakes were also marked on the image.

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The images were released on Isro's websites. Isro has shared a few of them on a social networking site, which is now being widely shared.

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Apart from three high resolution cameras, the satellite is equipped with two solid state recorders with a capacity of 200 gigabits each to store the images taken by its cameras, which the ground stations can later access.

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Resourcesat-2A, which is intended for resource monitoring, is a follow-on mission to Resourcesat-1 and Resourcesat-2, which were launched in 2003 and 2012 respectively. The satellites is expected to continue the remote sensing data services to global users provided by its previous satellites.