1. GIS APPLICATION ON FOREST MANAGEMENT
SUBMITTED BY : PRAHLAD PATEL
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2. CONTENT
1. ABSTRACT
2. ROLE OF GIS
3. INTRODUCTION
4. WHY GIS USE IN FOREST MANAGEMENT?
5. GIS USED BY THE SURVEY OF INDIA
6. SUCCESSFUL PROJECT IMPLIMENTED
7. GIS APPLICATION IN GENERAL
8. GIS APPLICATION IN FOREST MANAGEMENT
9. CONCLUSION
10. REFERENCES
3. ABSTRACT
• The overall aim of this is to explore the potential application of Geographic Information System (GIS)
technology in forest management in general. The use of GIS has flooded almost every field in the
engineering, natural and social sciences, offering accurate, efficient, reproducible methods for
collecting, viewing and analyzing spatial data.
ROLE OF GIS
GIS has proven to play a vital role in the following
• Resource Management
• Harvest planning
• Fire Management
• Map production
• GIS for strategic planning and modeling
4. INTRODUCTION
Forests are important renewable natural resources and have a significant role in preserving an environment
suitable for human life. In addition to timber, forests provide such resources as grazing land for animals, wildlife
habitat, water resources and recreation areas. Forestry involves the management of a broad range of natural
resources within a forested area. Forest resource management in today’s ever changing world is becoming more
complex and demanding to forest managers.
GIS and related technologies provide
foresters with powerful tools for record
keeping, analysis and decision making. GIS
can be established to provide crucial
information about resources and can make
planning and management of resources
easier, for example, recording and updating
resource inventories, harvest estimation and
planning, ecosystem management, and
landscape and habitat planning.
5. GIS is a good tool for forest management because it answers the following question that helps in forest
management activities.
•Location: What is at?
Location of forest resources in the earth in many ways such as a place name, post or zip code, or geographic
references such as latitude and longitude.
• Condition: Where is it?
Non forested land of certain size distance from road or river.
• Trends: What has changed since?
It helps to find out what has changed within study forest or land use an area over time
• Patterns: What spatial patterns exist?
Determine whether landslide in forest area
• Modeling: What if?
Determine what happens, if a road network is added in a forest.
WHY GIS USE IN FOREST MANAGEMENT ?
6. GIS applications can be grouped into various categories depending on the level of
integration with other forest management and financial systems. These categories include
• Data collection and maintenance.
• Map production.
• Data viewing and query.
• Decision support system
GIS APPLICATION IN GENERAL
7. GIS USED BY FOREST SURVEY OF INDIA
• FOREST COVERED: • MP FOREST COVERED AREA
9. SUCCESSFUL PROJECT OF CARBETT UTTRAKHAND IMPLEMENTED BY
FOREST SURVEY OF INDIA
Study Area:
Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR), the first Tiger Reserve to be established in the country in 1973 under ‘Project Tiger’ includes Corbett National
Park, Sonanadi Wildlife Sanctuary and a buffer zone surrounding the National Park and Sanctuary. The Corbett Tiger Reserve covering a total
area of 1288.32 sq. km. is situated at the southern part of Uttaranchal comprising of Pauri Garhwal, Nainital and Almora districts. This park
represents the amalgamation of culture of these hill regions, and displays amazing landscapes and diverse flora and fauna. The CTR area
extends from 78° 39’ 40” E to 79° 09’ 23” E longitude and 29°48’ N to 29°23’ 32” N latitude.
Data Input:
Data inputs include (i)Thematic Map of Corbett National Park on 1:25,000 based on interpretation of aerial photographs (ii) Forest Cover map
on 1:50,000 scale based on satellite data of year 2000 (iii) SOI toposheets on 1:50,000 scale covering the area (iv) IRS 1D LISS III data of March
2001 for digital classification of Forest Types. and (v) Databases provided by the authorities of the Corbett Tiger Reserve.
Methodology :
Features like the boundary of CTR, ranges, block and
compartments (from Forest Department’s map) were corrected with river channels of the satellite imageries and SOI sheets. Features like
roads, settlements in the fringe area etc were prepared from the toposheets and those like the range offices, rest houses, forest chaukis,
firelines, sighting of animals were prepared from the maps provided by the Forest Department. The satellite imageries were geo-referenced
and digital classification was performed for landuse and landcover maps.
Outputs:
From the databases prepared query based analysis were obtained. Estimates of area for the total area of Corbett along with the ranges, shown
in Table 26, blocks and the compartments were obtained. The total area as estimated by the CTR is 1288.32 km2, where Corbett National Park
is 520.22 km2, Corbett Tiger Reserve (buffer zone including the Kalagarh Forest Division) is 466.32 km2 and Sonanadi Wildlife Sanctuary is
301.18 sq km. Of the 45 blocks within the CTR, Malani has the maximum area of 66.40 km2, with 19 compartments while Kartia has the
minimum area of 3.12 km2 with just two compartments.
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10. AREA COVERED BY EACH FOREST TYPE:
Fig 28: Area covered by each forest type
FOREST TYPE
AREA
(IN SQ. KM)
% OF TOTAL
AREA
Pure Sal 540.71 41.97
16.08Mixed Sal 207.20
17.29Miscellaneous 222.75
Grass/Riverbed 109.12 8.47
5.7574.09Scrub
6.9889.87Plantation
Water 44.59 3.46
Percentage Area of Forest Types in Corbett National Park
%16.08
%5.75
%6.98
%3.46
41.97 %
17.29 %
%8.47
Pure Sal Mixed Sal Miscellaneous
Grass/Riverbed Scrub Plantation
Water
11. With forest management becoming increasingly complex, due to greater environmental and social involvement and
pressures, GIS is likely to play an increasingly central role. Developments in greater band width, web based
technology and wireless communication will provide much greater opportunities for information access even in
more remote areas. This will allow real time online data capture and query in the field.
CONCLUSION
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