Iranian Entity: BASIR Remote Sensing Institute
| Entity Name: |
| BASIR Remote Sensing Institute |
| Also Known As: |
Basir |
| Program: |
| Military |
| Address: |
| - #302, 3rd floor, Shahrokh Tower, Africa Blvd, Tehran, Iran (Tehran Office) - Yazd, Iran (Station Location) |
| Phone Number: |
| +9821-22017541 (Tehran Office); 0351-8240814 |
| Fax: |
| +9821-22017542 (Tehran Office); 0351-8240813 |
| URL: |
www.basir-rsi.ir |
| Text: |
Provides satellite imagery and access to remote sensing technologies, including geographical information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS); involved in a GPS project for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC - see separate entity record); also interacts with Iran's Atomic Energy Organization and Ministry of Energy (see separate entity records), Ministry of Petroleum, police, and the Supreme National Security Council, as well as scientific and research centers at Shahid Beheshti University, Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology (K. N. Toosi University of Technology), and Amirkabir University of Technology (see separate entity records), Imam Khomeini International University, Yazd University, and Islamic Azad University; has representative offices in Yazd, Kerman, Mazandaran, Mashhad, Hamedan, Qazvin, Hormozgan, South Khorasan, and Moscow; founded in 1999, after Iran's Technology Cooperation Office (see separate entity record) purchased a remote sensing station from the Russian space agency. |
| Date Entered: |
| 11/5/2009 |
| Date Last Modified: |
| 11/5/2009 |