ISRO has established the _______, at Bharati station, Antarctica, for receiving IRS data.

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The correct answer is AGEOS.

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ISRO has established the AGEOS, at Bharati Station, Antarctica, for receiving IRS data.
ISRO has established the Antarctica Ground Station for Earth Observation Satellites (AGEOS), at Bharati Station, Larsemann Hills, Antarctica, for receiving Indian Remote sensing Satellites (IRS) data.
This state-of-the-art advanced Ground station was commissioned during August 2013 and is receiving data from IRS satellites (like CARTOSAT-2 Series, SCATSAT-1, RESOURCESAT-2/2A, CARTOSAT-1) and transferring the same to NRSC, Shadnagar near Hyderabad.
This Satcom station is providing vital communication support to the Indian scientific community for pursuing their research work at Maitri throughout the year. With the commissioning of the Earth station at NCAOR, Goa, the Indian station, Maitri has been brought into the ambit of the World Wide Web.
The AGEOS is continuously operated and maintained by the Engineers of ISRO who are under deputation to Bharati Station, Antarctica on a regular basis.

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Organization	Description
NCAOR	The National Centre for Antarctic & Ocean Research (NCAOR), an Autonomous Society under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, New Delhi, is the nodal agency responsible for planning, coordinating and executing the Indian Polar Programme. In addition, the Centre has a well-focused scientific mandate of basic and applied research in various disciplines and themes of polar and ocean sciences.
NRSC	National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) is one of the primary centres of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of Space (DOS). NRSC operates through multiple campuses to meet the national and regional remote sensing data and applications needs of the country.
IMGEOS	Integrated Multi-Mission Ground Segment for Earth Observation Satellites (IMGEOS) facility is established in Shadnagar campus. This facility is equipped with state of the art data acquisition systems which receive data from various satellites.