| Sl.No. |
Project Name |
Year of Commencement and Completion |
Sponsored by (State Govt. / central Govt. / DOS /Others |
Cost of the Project (Rs. in lakhs) |
Salient Achievement |
| 1. |
Pre-harvest crop acreage & production estimation |
1992 to till date |
SAC/ISRO (DOS) |
22.5 |
Acreage and production of mstard and kharif rice are being estimated yearly using IRS Satellite data. |
| 2. |
Digital Database creation under Disaster Management Support (DMS) Program |
2004-2005 |
DOS through NE-SAC |
8.74 |
Generated the Infrasructral & land use / land cover database in GIS environment using LISS III+PAN merged data as well as generated administrative boundary layer for supplementing relevant information with near real time flood mapping and are being operationally used. |
| 3. |
Cropping System study with emphasis to horticulture development in hill areas using Remote Sensing Technique |
2003 - 2007 |
NEC, Shillong (Central Govt.) |
12.00 (Received Rs.9.0 lakhs) |
Existing cropping system of Assam was mapped using remote sensing data .Existing soil thematic maps are used and productivity index map is prepared and submitted to NEC. |
| 4. |
Delineation of Catchment Area of Bridges |
2004 and completed in 2004 |
Others: DPDC, New Delhi |
0.64 |
Watershed of each identified proposed road bridge location in Upper Assam are delineated as an input for designing the bridges. Topomaps and Satellite data are being used. |
| 5. |
Spatio –temporal mapping of methane emission from rice field |
2004 – 2006 |
SAC / ISRO (DOS) |
5.06 |
Methane samples collected from rice field of Assam in different stages and are sent to CRRI, Cuttak for analysis. |
| 6. |
Integrated Study of 20 major wetlands of Assam for Fisheries development |
2003 – 2007 (near completion) |
NEC, Shillong (Central Govt.) |
9.00 (Received Rs.6.00 lakhs) |
Wetlands are delineated using multidate IRS satellite dataand and put into GIS. Water samples are collected for quality parameters and are being attributed to respective wetlands. |
| 7. |
Urban Sprawls Study of Tinsukia District, Assam |
2003 - 2004 |
NE-SAC (DOS) |
0.3 |
Socio-economic data are collected for the project for further analysis. |
| 8. |
Fluvio-geomorphological study of the Brahmaputrariver |
2003- 2005 |
SAC / ISRO (DOS) |
2 |
Landuse change detection mapping is carried out in digital environment along the Brahmaputra as a part of the project using IRS Satellite data |
| 9. |
Ground water fluctuation of 3 Tea Gardens |
2003 – 2004 |
Others: NTRF |
2.78 |
Seasonal ground water fluctuation map is prepared |
| 10. |
Updation of Wasteland phase - V |
2004 - 2006 |
NRSA (DOS) |
3.93 |
Wasteland database has been updated for 13 districts of Assam in GIS domain using IRS-LISS III data. In few districts –ve growth is observed in comparison to earlier database created under wasteland phase-v due to encroachment in forest area. Along with wasteland village layer as well as watershed boundary with proper codifcation are put into GIS. These are again customized as per user needs at block level as and when required by concerned line department of State Govt., NGO’s etc. |
| 11. |
Vegetation cover dynamics study and afforestation site identification in Guwahati City |
2003 - ongoing |
In house (S & T division of ASTEC) |
1.23 |
The maps and data analysis are under progress. IRS LISS III and PAN merged data are being used |
| 12. |
Digital database of Dibrugarh District,Assam |
2005-2006 |
State Govt. |
1.48 (Received 0.74 lakhs) |
Database such as lanuse / landcover using IRS LISS III and PAN merged data are generated along with administrative layer upto revenue circle level having village boundaries are put in GIS environment and are being used by district administration with help of NIC. |
| 13. |
Village level database of Assam |
2005 – completed in 2005 |
AHEC, IIT Roorkee |
0.27 |
Database is used for planning of rural electrification. |
| 14. |
Revenue Circle Map of parts of Assam |
2005 –2007 |
UNICEF, through Dept. of Social Welfare, Govt. of Assam |
2 |
Digital data are used extensively by Socaial Welfare for various UNICEF schemes. |
| 15. |
National level mustard crop estimation under multi-crop inventory |
2006- ongoing |
SAC /ISRO (DOS) |
0.5 |
Inventory of mustard crop |
| 16. |
Augmentation of IT infrastructure at ARSAC / ASTEC |
2006 –2007 |
NEC, Shillong (Central Govt.) |
90 |
Both hardware ( high end PC’s and Server and software (ERDAS /Imagine and ARC/GIS ) are being procured under the scheme which in turn helped in various ongoing projects as well as for training program conducted at ARSAC. |
| 17. |
Thematic layer extraction using IRS LISS III data for 4 North Eastern States |
2006- 2007 |
NIC, Govt. of India (Central Govt.) |
9.81 (Received 3.81 lakhs) |
Thematic layers (landuse, wasteland, geology, geomorphology etc.) are extracted usng IRS LISS III data. |
| 18. |
National Resource Census (LULC 50K) |
2007-onging |
NE-SAC (DOS) |
14.53 (Received Rs. 0.92/- lakhs as 1st installment) |
60nos. of sheets are taken for analysis |
| 19. |
Updation of wasteland under NRC |
2007- to be started |
NRSA (DOS) |
1.02 |
After receiving necessary layers compatible to Satellite data supplied for NRC project from NRSA works will be carried out. |
| 20. |
National Wetland Inventory and Assessment |
2007-to be started |
Space Application Centre, dept. of Space, Ahmedabad |
10.2 (Rs.5.0 lakhs has been sanctioned as advance) |
Wetland inventory on 1:50,000 scale using IRS satellite data and thereby creation of Digital database of Wetlands as per NNRMS standards. |
