• NavIC has a provision for one-way broadcast of short messages.
• This service is currently being used only for providing emergency warning alerts to fishermen venturing into deep sea, where there is no terrestrial network connectivity.

NavIC service is already available for users.

• Application-specific receivers are available commercially off-the-shelf in the market.
• Also, a few mobile handsets in India are having NavIC capability.
• A common citizen can obtain these devices and use NavIC.

• NavIC, or any other GNSS system, provides location input that can be used by an application software.
• A common citizen can procure receiver modules, enabled with NavIC, from the market and develop applications on the top of it.
• If anyone wants to develop a NavIC receiver module, all the signal details are available on PDF - 1.96 MB

• Yes.

• Yes, currently (mid-2021) there are about two dozen mobile handsets in India with NavIC capability.
• The number is progressively increasing because all the major mobile chipset manufacturers have incorporated NavIC in their latest chipsets.

The navigational receiver should work in the NavIC frequency bands with a suitable decoder.

• Any navigation receiver computes the position of the antenna and not the receiver unit itself.
• In case the antenna is placed outside the building with sufficient clear view to the sky, and sufficiently less cable length is maintained, the receiver will correctly report position of the antenna.

• Ionospheric group delay, satellite ephemeris, and satellite clock are the three major error sources which affect user position accuracy in satellite navigation.
• Multipath, tropospheric group delay and receiver measurement errors are the other error sources.

Yes, navigation receiver can be jammed by using strong radio frequency (RF) energy over its operating bandwidth.

Remote sensing technology is used in a wide variety of disciplines in thousands of different use cases, including most earth sciences, such as meteorology, geology, hydrology, ecology, oceanography, glaciology, geography, and in land surveying, as well as applications in military, intelligence, commercial, economic, planning, and humanitarian fields.

Remote sensing makes it possible to collect data from dangerous or inaccessible areas. It replaces slower, costly data collection on the ground, providing fast and repetitive coverage of extremely large areas for everyday applications, ranging from weather forecasts to reports on natural disasters or climate change.

One can obtain the satellite images in India as per RSDP 2011. As per this, all satellite images of resolutions up to 1m is can be obtained from NRSC on non-discriminatory basis and “as requested basis”. The data could be free or on payment basis. All satellite images of better than 1m resolution shall be provided subject to screening and clearance by a committee.

Satellite data products are sold to user as per Remote Sensing Data Pricing Policy (RSDPP-2015). It is a comprehensive policy positioned for defining the modalities for pricing the data from IRS satellites for users. It provides guidelines for data products pricing for various user categories, subscription services, discount criteria etc.

To create general awareness and encourage research activities, certain amount of archived data with a latency of two years was also approved for dissemination through NRSC EO Open data Archive (NOEDA) facility of BhuvanGeoPortal. It allows the users to select and download Elevation data of CartoDEM(1arc second), Satellite data of Resourcesat-1/2/2A:AWiFs data(56m), LISS-III(24m) and Oceansat data pertaining to OCM and Scatterometer, derived products from AWiFS and OCM.