Dasika Durga Prasada Rao

Dasika Durga Prasada Rao
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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "NASI". NASI. 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ "NASI Fellows" (PDF). NASI. 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Padma Awards. 2014. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  4. ↑ "ISRS". ISRS. 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2015.

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