Evaluation of impact of participatory Forest Management on forest cover of West Bengal through real time monitoring using Remote Sensing Technology

DOI: 10.22161/ijeab/1.2.23

Keyword: Forest Cover in West Bengal, ERDAS software, ARCINFO software, Forest Survey of India, RS, GIS, Joint Forest Management, Monitoring afforestation, Forest cover mapping using Remote Sensing, Tree cover assessment.

Abstract: West Bengal is one of the most densely populated States of India. The State is predominantly agriculture-based, with only 13.4% of the total land area being reserved as notified Forest. The Forest ecosystem however is extremely diverse. With the initiation of World Bank aided Social Forestry Project in the State in 1980-81, an ambitious programme was initiated to bring large chunks of the barren lateritic tracts of the State under green cover. Subsequently, another World Bank aided West Bengal Forestry Project was initiated during 1990s, for improvement of Government-owned degraded forests through people’s participation. The present paper shows the usefulness of RS/ GIS technology in real-time assessment of forest/ tree cover, as part of monitoring of afforestation/ social forestry programme, on a large landscape level. A time series analysis of changes of Forest cover will also facilitate formulation of REDD+ Projects in the State.

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Atanu Kumar Raha, Amitav V. Mishra, Sumita Ghatak, Sumana Bhattacharjee, Srilekha Raha, Souvik Saha, Ranajit Sengupta et al."Evaluation of impact of participatory Forest Management on forest cover of West Bengal through real time monitoring using Remote Sensing Technology". International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878),vol 1, no. 2, 2016, pp.269-283 AI Publications doi:10.22161/ijeab/1.2.23

Atanu Kumar Raha, Amitav V. Mishra, Sumita Ghatak, Sumana Bhattacharjee, Srilekha Raha, Souvik Saha, Ranajit Sengupta, P.(2016).Evaluation of impact of participatory Forest Management on forest cover of West Bengal through real time monitoring using Remote Sensing Technology. International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).1(2), 269-283.10.22161/ijeab/1.2.23

Atanu Kumar Raha, Amitav V. Mishra, Sumita Ghatak, Sumana Bhattacharjee, Srilekha Raha, Souvik Saha, Ranajit Sengupta, P.(2016).Evaluation of impact of participatory Forest Management on forest cover of West Bengal through real time monitoring using Remote Sensing Technology. International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).1(2), pp.269-283.

Atanu Kumar Raha, Amitav V. Mishra, Sumita Ghatak, Sumana Bhattacharjee, Srilekha Raha, Souvik Saha, Ranajit Sengupta. 2016."Evaluation of impact of participatory Forest Management on forest cover of West Bengal through real time monitoring using Remote Sensing Technology". International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).1(2):269-283.Doi:10.22161/ijeab/1.2.23

Atanu Kumar Raha, Amitav V. Mishra, Sumita Ghatak, Sumana Bhattacharjee, Srilekha Raha, Souvik Saha, Ranajit Sengupta."Evaluation of impact of participatory Forest Management on forest cover of West Bengal through real time monitoring using Remote Sensing Technology", International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology,vol.1,no. 2, pp.269-283,2016.

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