Dasika Durga Prasada Rao
Dasika Durga Prasada Rao | |
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Born | 1939 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.[1] 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
References[]
- ^ a b "NASI". NASI. 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ^ "NASI Fellows" (PDF). NASI. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Padma Awards. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
- ^ "ISRS". ISRS. 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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Categories:
- Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering
- 20th-century Indian physicists
- 1939 births
- Scientists from Hyderabad, India
- Living people
- Telugu people
- People from Guntur
- Indian geologists