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'''Dasika Durga Prasada Rao''' is an Indian [[Geoscientists|geoscientist]] and the former director of the [[National Remote Sensing Agency]].<ref name="NASI">{{cite web | url=http://nasi.nic.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=D | title=NASI | publisher=NASI | date=2014 | access-date=2 January 2015}}</ref> Born in 1939 to a family of Guntur-Vijayawada region.<ref name="NASI" /> He is a 1998 Fellow of the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]].<ref name="NASI Fellows">{{cite web|url=http://www.nasi.org.in/NASI-Fellows%20zone%20wise%20list.PDF |title=NASI Fellows |publisher=NASI |date=2014 |access-date=2 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730170707/http://www.nasi.org.in/NASI-Fellows%20zone%20wise%20list.PDF |archive-date=30 July 2012 }}</ref> Rao was honored by the [[Government of India]], in 2001, with the fourth highest [[Indian honours system|Indian civilian award]] of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Padma Awards |date=2014 |access-date=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref> Two years later, he received the Bhaskara Award from the Indian Society of Remote Sensing in 2003.<ref name="ISRS">{{cite web | url=http://www.isrsindia.in/old_awards.php | title=ISRS | publisher=ISRS | date=2014 | access-date=2 January 2015}}</ref><br />
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* [[National Remote Sensing Agency]]<br />
* [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]<br />
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