Dasika Durga Prasada Rao Explained

Dasika Durga Prasada Rao
Birth Date:	1939
Birth Place:	Hyderabad State, India
Occupation:	Geocientist
Awards:	Padma Shri Bhaskara Award

Dasika Durga Prasada Rao is an Indian geoscientist and the former director of the National Remote Sensing Agency.^[1] Born in 1939 to a family of Guntur-Vijayawada region. He is a 1998 Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.^[2] Rao was honored by the Government of India, in 2001, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.^[3] Two years later, he received the Bhaskara Award from the Indian Society of Remote Sensing in 2003.^[4]

See also

• National Remote Sensing Agency
• National Academy of Sciences, India

Notes and References

1. Web site: NASI . NASI . 2014 . 2 January 2015.
2. Web site: NASI Fellows . NASI . 2014 . 2 January 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120730170707/http://www.nasi.org.in/NASI-Fellows%20zone%20wise%20list.PDF . 30 July 2012 .
3. Web site: Padma Awards . Padma Awards . 2014 . 11 November 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf . 15 October 2015 .
4. Web site: ISRS . ISRS . 2014 . 2 January 2015 . 18 November 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141118023738/http://isrsindia.in/old_awards.php . dead .