ABOUT

     Maharashtra Remote Sensing Application Centre (MRSAC), was set up by Government of Maharashtra, in 1988, under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 as an Autonomous body under the administrative control of its Planning Department, to utilize and operationalize the use of space technology for managing and monitoring the natural resources of the State,  as well as the developments and changes in the urban society. From the humble beginning on  18^thJanuary 1988, with a Small Laboratory premises near Department of Electrical Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, (V.N.I.T) (erstwhile VRCE) at Nagpur with four scientists, four technical and five supporting staff mostly on deputation,  a piece of land admeasuring 0.30 hectare, was allotted within the campus of V.N.I.T. (VRCE), Nagpur on lease basis for setting up an independent establishment. The Centre with aesthetic excellence in civil engineering, structurally sound, self-sufficient building was developed, and the Centre started functioning from this new edifice from August 1994.
     Centre is  forging ahead in disseminating geospatial data to the entire state; is contributing significantly in generating voluminous spatial databases on various themes from urban, industries, ecology and forest, rivers, drainages, waterbodies, agriculture, geology, geomorphology etc.  for Maharashtra, from small scale through to very large scale. MRSAC guides users and user departments, with geospatial solution through the use of remote sensing datasets and GIS, and decision support system. MRSAC is playing a pivotal role in making state-of-art remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, Mobile and Web based hosting of maps on  internet  for use in the G2G (Govt. to Govt.). MRSAC has the ambitious plan of making the data available on G2C (Govt. to Citizen) domain. The huge repository of thematic database on  various scales follow the Maharashtra Geo-database Design Standards and are uploaded with proper topology, domain structure and migrated to the ambitious ‘State Data Centre’ (SDC) of Government of Maharashtra, as digital web data services. The Centre envisages to serve the data on web to the various line departments, for multiple queries, analysis; etc. and updating can be done at the client side (line department) and once authenticated, shall be hosted on the web. This ensure that data redundancy is eliminated and only one  unique data set is used by the various departments of Government,  for various applications; making decisions easier, viable, timesaving transparent and effective.
     MRSAC, works in tandem with the Planning Department, GOM, and has further established two more centres at Mumbai (2013) and Pune (2014) for smooth functioning and timely decisions in the various projects of the state. MRSAC is also providing soft skill training and capacity-building to various Government officials, Administrators, NGO’s and students from various universities.
     MRSAC is taking every effort to empower the state with scientific inputs, through the latest technologies; using the rich and wide-ranging digital database, on various themes. Today, MRSAC is recognized as one of the best centers in Natural Resource Monitoring and Management, coupled with GIS and re-affirms its commitment towards a better, transparent, vibrant and implementable e- Governed Maharashtra.