Dasika Durga Prasada Rao

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Dasika Durga Prasada Rao
Born1939
OccupationGeocientist
AwardsPadma 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]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "NASI". NASI. 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  2. "NASI Fellows" (PDF). NASI. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  3. "Padma Awards" (PDF). Padma Awards. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  4. "ISRS". ISRS. 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.

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