NISAR will be able to monitor "changes as small as a centimeter in any weather, and in both darkness and light."

ISRO launched on Wednesday a $1.5 billion, first-of-its-kind radar imaging satellite built in collaboration with NASA, deploying it to help enhance global monitoring of climate change and natural disasters.

The GSLV-F16 rocket successfully placed the NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite into a Sun-Synchronous Polar Orbit. This marks the first GSLV mission to such an orbit. The satellite will capture detailed Earth images,