The NISAR Mission for Enhanced Disaster Monitoring

India is one of the countries, which experiences frequent natural disasters like floods, cyclones, landslides, earthquakes, forest fires, etc. affecting the life and property in the Indian subcontinent. Under Disaster Management Support (DMS) Programme ISRO proactively provides space-based information and services on a reliable and timely basis for strengthening India’s commitment towards efficient disaster management in accordance to the Sendai Framework. Critical disaster products from a suite of satellite sensors, which include optical, microwave and space-based radiometers, are being extensively utilized by the stakeholders for monitoring and managing different disasters in India. NISAR satellite, which has a SAR instrument operating in the L and S-band in single, dual and quad-pol configuration, will provide regular products for disaster response. It is expected to meet the needs of the end-user disaster community with new science products for crop flood damage assessment, improved monitoring of floods and cyclones, estimation of forest fuel moisture and stand damage, landslide monitoring and damage assessment, surface deformation, subsidence and oil spill detection and monitoring. This paper describes the NISAR mission operations, capabilities, requirements and its advantage for monitoring the natural disasters.