Abstract
Geomatics in Forest Working Plan Preparation in India Track: Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries Management Author(s): Vijay Kumar Srivastava The Forest Working Plan is a document for forest management. Definition of management depends on factors like climatic, edaphic, anthropogenic, and cultural features including forest resources conditions. Data collected on these features including forest are in non-spatial form. Integrating such data becomes difficult to identify any meaningful strategy. Using Geomatics, such data can be generated and integrated easily in spatial domain. Multi-criteria query can be made using such data to delineate homogeneous forest patches for definite management strategies and planning. Many attempts to preparation the thematic maps for this purpose and integrating the same in GIS have been made in India. However, a comprehensive Working Plan using various thematic maps derived from satellite remote sensing data and conventional data has been lacking. This research paper discusses the methodology evolved for preparation of the same using GIS for Pune forest division, Maharashtra, India. Vijay Kumar Srivastava National Remote Sensing Agency Department of Space, Hyderabad, India National Remote Sensing Agency Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500 042 IN Phone: 040-23884244 E-mail: vijayks52@gmail.com |
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