NESAC

Facilities

CAREER@NESAC

Remote Sensing / GIS Division

Remote Sensing and GIS Application Projects (Completed/Ongoing)
at North Eastern Space Applications Centre (During past 3 years)

Mapping of Natural Resources

Land Use/Land Cover mapping at 1:50,000 scale for NER under NRC

Wasteland Monitoring of NER

Wasteland Change Analysis of NER

NRC-Soil Resource Mapping (SRM) Project on 1:50K

National Carbon Project(NCP)-Vegetation Carbon Pool (VCP)

Spatial Assessment of Soil Carbon Pool (SCP) of India

Agriculture/Soil/Sericulture

Developing Remote Sensing based methodology for Collection of Agricultural Statistics in Meghalaya (An R&D Component under FASAL)

Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Sericulture Development

Soil and land capability mapping for agricultural districts of the NE Region

Tea Area Development and Management using RS & GIS

Forestry/Ecology

Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS System in the preparation of Forest Working Plan for the States of North Eastern Region

Habitat mapping and identification of corridors for the movement of elephant using remote sensing and GIS in selective site of Assam

Comparative study on selected forest sampling techniques with satellite remote sensing inputs

Water Resources

Integrated watershed development planning for Bagra Watershed of Meghalaya (including Cherapunjee)- a RS & GIS based approach

Assessment of silt generation to identify critical sub Watersheds in the catchment area of Kopili Hydro-electric plant

Ground Water Prospects Mapping for Assam under Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission Project, Phase – III

Assessment of Irrigation Potential Created in AIBP Funded Irrigation Projects in India Using Cartosat Satellite Data [Dhansiri (Major) Irrigation Project Assam]

Infrastructures/Information System

Remote Sensing and GIS Based Input for Road Realignment Planning in the Disaster Prone Areas of NER (Silchar to Imphal)

Optimization and regulation of transportation infrastructure for disaster management support for Shillong city

GIS for Election Management system of Meghalaya

Land features mapping for route alignment of proposed power transmission lines

Meghalaya Natural Resources Information System (MeNRIS)

Road Information System (RIS) of Nagaland

Health/Others

Development of an early working system for the outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) with the help of remote sensing and GIS in conjunction with the epidemiological studies in Assam (Operational phase)

Applications of data mining techniques in improving the classification accuracy of high resolution satellite data