Ongoing Projetcs
1. Coordinated Horticulture Assessment & Management using Geoinformatics (CHAMAN) Project
The Coordinated Horticulture Assessment & Management using Geoinformatics (CHAMAN) is a flagship programme for all the states of India being implemented by Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer’s Welfare. This particular programme has been developed to further expansion of selected horticultural crops in different states of India with the help of modern Geospatial Platform.
2. Forecasting Agricultural Output using Space Meteorology and Land Based Observation (FASAL)
The project was initially started as Crop Acreage and Production Estimation (CAPE) by Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmadabad which was sponsored by Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation, Govt. of India since 1992 in Assam with kharif rice crop. Subsequently mustard and Jute crop were included in the project. Though initially single forecast was done, but later on multiple forecasts were done by renaming the project as FASAL.
3. Monitoring of integrated watershed management programme (IWMP) watersheds using geospatial technologies
The Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) is one of the flagship programmes of Govt. of India in all states of the country being implemented by the Department of Land Resources (DoLR). The programme envisages to restore the ecological balance by harnessing, conserving and developing degraded natural resources through watershed management initiative. For Assam under the umbrella of NESAC, Assam State Space Application Centre has taken the key responsibility as Partner Institute to monitor 372 watersheds of different batches. Monitoring is based on High Resolution Indian Satellite Data (LISS IV and Cartosat Pan Merged data).
4. National Wetland Inventory & Assessment (NWIA)
Sponsored by the Space Applications Centre (ISRO), Ahmedabad, at the behest of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India, NWIA Phase I was carried out using 2006-07 timeframe satellite data and completed during 2010. All the wetlands of the state (size above 2.5 ha) including the rivers were mapped on 1:50,000 scale and a state wide data base on wetlands was created.
NWIA Phase II has been carried out using 2017-18 timeframe satellite data. Here wetland inventory of the state is done in three stages:
Stage I : Updation of the existing wetland maps on 1:50,000 scale prepared during NWIA Phase I with the help of 2017-18 timeframe IRS LISS III satellite imagery.
Stage II : Preparation wetland maps and creation of wetland database on 1:25,000 scale using 2017-18 timeframe IRS LISS IV satellite imagery.
Stage III : Detailed Hydrological study of Deepar Beel Ramsar site at catchment level.
5. Space Based Information Support For Decentralised Planning SIS-DP
Land Use Land Cover (LULC) is a critical information for planning activities in general and mere so in micro level planning for Villages and Panchayats. Regional centres of National Remote Sensing Centre have initiated a project title Space Based Information Support for Decentralized Planning (SIS-DP) under the National Natural Resource Management System (NNRMS). The project envisaged to map the LULC and other legacy thematic spatial information at 1:10,000 scale to provide space based support to decentralized planning at Panchayat Level. SISDP update products and services have the potential to institutionalize space technology applications at grass root level in collaboration with State Remote Sensing Centers. Various products and services envisaged under SIS-DP Update Project are expected to be disseminated through Bhuvan Panchayat geoportal. Collaboration with and Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Govt. of India, shall ensure in speedy implementation and usage of High Resolution Satellite data at Gram Panchayat level. Pan India High Resolution Orthorectified Indian Satellite Imagery of 2.5 m resolution being used for mapping thematic maps (Land use/cover, Drainage, Infrastructure, Slope and Settlement) at 1:10K scale for entire country in the second phase of the project.