The North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC) is a society registered under the Meghalaya Societies Registration Act, 1983. It is a joint initiative of Department of Space (DOS) and the North Eastern Council (NEC) to provide developmental support to the north eastern regin (NER) of our country using space science and technology.
The Major Roles of the Centre are :
To provide an operational remote sensing based natural resource information base to assist activities on development / management of natural resources and infrastructure planning in the Region.
To provide operational satellite communication applications services in the Region extending implementation of satellite communication based applications in education, health, disaster management support, and developmental communication in the Region.
A space science and global climatic change research hub by installation of necessary instrumentation and networking with various academic institutions of NE Region.