Lieutenant General KC Panchanathan, AVSM visited NESAC on 12th April 2022 to get acquainted with the different activities of NESAC. During his visit, Dr. S.P Aggarwal, Director, NESAC had given a brief overview about the centre and also highlighted the space technology based services provided by NESAC to support various developmental activities of NER. Further, he had interacted with the senior Scientists of NESAC and made a visit to different facilities of the Centre. Lt General Panchanathan appreciated NESAC for its commendable work on space technology applications both concerning civil and defence domain.
A customised two weeks course for the Indo German Development Cooperation funded project “Climate Resilience of Forest Ecosystems, Biodiversity & Adaptive Capacities of Forest Dependent Communities in Tripura” (CFEFLAT) supported by the Tripura Forest Department was organised during 21st April 2025 to 02nd May 2025 by the Forestry & Ecology Division. Twelve officials participated as the first batch of the training programme. The training focussed on the introductory lectures on basics concepts of remote sensing, GIS, image interpretations, map projections and digital image processing with emphasis on hands-on exercises on different aspects of forest cover and land use mapping.