Dasika Durga Prasada Rao | |
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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] In 2001, Rao was honored with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award, by the Government of India. [3] Two years later, he received the Bhaskara Award from the Indian Society of Remote Sensing in 2003. [4]