Under the NICES program, Earth and Climate Science Area (ECSA), in collaboration with the Training, Education and Outreach Group (TEOG), conducted a four-day training program on “Advanced Data Assimilation and Inverse Modeling in Earth System and Climate Sciences” from January 21 to 24, 2025. The content of the training included topics from the linear estimation theory to the nonlinear, 3D, and 4D variational method, Ensemble Kalman Filter, data assimilation in stochastic and dynamic modeling systems, and big data analytics. Prof Sivaramakrishna Lakshmivarahan from the University of Oklahoma Norman, USA, served as the key faculty for the training. Several expert lectures on the applications of data assimilation in EO studies on Land Surface Processes, Ocean and Atmosphere Circulation, and Biogeochemical cycles were delivered by faculties from INCOIS, IITM, IIT, and NRSC. A total of 55 participants from various national institutions across the country participated in the training program.

Under the NICES program, Earth & Climate Sciences Area (ECSA), NRSC conducted workshop entitled, ‘Atmospheric Lightning Monitoring, Forecasting and Mitigation’ during 28-29 November 2024. Through this workshop, NRSC brought the multi-institutional expertise available within India together to analyze the emerging trends and gap areas in the lightning monitoring, forecasting and mitigation area. On the first day of workshop 15 lectures were delivered in three sessions. Second day was dedicated for hands on training with the NRSC-LDSN data from downloading to the report generation. The total number of participation was 139 from various institutes including IMD, NCMRWF, NARL, IIT, NIT, BITS.

National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) conducted a CSSTEAP Short Course on "Satellite Remote Sensing for Ocean Applications" from 14-25 October 2024 at the IMGEOS facility, Shadnagar. The course provided advanced training on satellite remote sensing for oceanographic studies, focusing on parameters like SST, SSS, sea level, ocean winds, ocean color, and biogeochemistry. Total 16 participants from seven Asia-Pacific countries viz., Kazakhstan (2), Indonesia (4), Sri Lanka (2), Vietnam (2), Nepal (1), Mongolia (1) and India (4) attended the course highlighting regional collaboration in addressing global marine environmental challenges.

The Ocean Colour Science and Applications workshop held on February 5th, 2024, at the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) in Hyderabad convened delegates from various esteemed organizations nationally and internationally. A total of 28 National and International institutions namely, PML-UK, Reading University, CSIRO-Australia, UK-Met Office, MoES institutions- INCOIS, NCCR, NCPOR; CSIR-labs : NIO, IIMT-Bhubaneswar, IISER, CSBoB, NERCI-Kochin and academia – Andhra University, UoH, CUFOS, CUSAT, IIT-Madras, Kharagpur, Bhubaneswar, BHU etc. participated in hybrid mode. Dr. Prakash Chauhan, Director NRSC conducted the inaugural session and emphasized the role of Oceansat-3 satellite and its payloads for fisheries and ocean applications. Sri. G. Srinivasa Rao, DD, ECSA highlighted the ocean’s significance in Earth's climate system. The workshop facilitated knowledge exchange and emphasized the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in ocean science and applications.

National Brainstorming workshop on “Space-based Greenhouse Gases Air Quality and Climate Change” was held during 20-21 December, 2023 at NRSC, ISRO, Hyderabad. Around 120 participants attended the workshop from different Institutes viz., JAMSTECH/Japan, IITM/MoES, MoEFCC/India, NILU/Norway IISW-ICAR, CSIR-NIO, FSI-India University of Illinois, USA, NASA, Langley Research Centre, GSFC and also from different academic Institutes such as IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Bombay, IIT-New Delhi, IISc-Bangalore, IIIT-Hyderabad, IISER-Bhopal and from various ISRO centers- ISRO-HQ, NRSC, SAC, PRL, SPL, NARL, NESAC and NRSC-RCs.

The aim of the workshop was to bring out the latest advances in Greenhouse gases (GHG) monitoring and to enhance the collaboration between the Institutes and bringing the research community under one platform to discuss the challenges ahead with GHGs and identify the gap areas.

NICES website was released by Sri. S. Somanath, Chairman ISRO and Secretary, Department of Space at ISRO Headquarters on 26th October, 2023 in the presence of Scientific Secretary, ISRO, Sri Shantanu Bhatawdekar, Director, NRSC, Dr. Prakash Chauhan, Other ISRO Centre Directors, Director, NCPOR, Director, INCOIS, Director, IITM, Director, NESAC and other distinguished guests in virtual mode.

Chairman ISRO congratulated NICES Team for their work and outlined the future direction. He mentioned that NICES website should aim to serve as a national platform for climate-related initiatives and research.

NICES workshop on Earth Observations for Climate Studies was organized jointly by NRSC in collaboration with Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur on October 12, 2023.

One day workshop was organized at Alva's Institute of Engineering and Technology (AIET), Moodbidri, Karnataka on August 18, 2023 where technical talks on 'glimpses of ISRO & NRSC activities', 'NICES & Lightning as NICES component' and 'NRSC Geoportals and data availability' delivered by NRSC Scientists followed by interactive session.

National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), ISRO in collaboration with the Collaboration with Central Coffee Research Institute, Coffee Board signed an Memorandum of Understaning (MoU) on 21st July, 2023 to study the Carbon Fluxes with Eddy Covariance in the shaded coffee ecosystem region of Karnataka.

National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), ISRO in collaboration with the Department of Geo informatics, Kashmir University (KU) conducted a one-day National workshop on “Earth Observations for Climate Services” at KU, Srinagar, on 4th May, 2023.

A national workshop was organized jointly by ICAR & NRSC at Ooty on 20 Feb 2023.

An awareness workshop was organized at Kathada Gram Panchayat, Bhuj on 04 Jan 2023.