Bangalore, July 29 - The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has partnered with Ahmedabad-based Scanpoint Geomatics Ltd to develop an integrated geographic information system and image processing software (IGiS) to analyse satellite pictures and data.

The low-cost software is an indigenous seamless geomatics application for geographical information system (GIS), image processing and its integration with the real-time information using the global positioning system (GPS).

'It is the first indigenous software which integrates satellite images with information. We have demonstrated our capability to develop IGiS in a niche area for our use, which is the need of the hour,' ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair said while launching the software product here.

The unique software can be used to scan, process and study the images and spatial data relayed by the space agency's communication and remote-sensing satellites in the polar and geo-synchronous orbits.

'Our Insat and remote sensing satellites transmit digital images to earth stations containing spatial data for drought or flood monitoring, forestry, fisheries and agriculture activity.