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FOREST STOCK MAPPING OF SOLAN FOREST DIVISION USING REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

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Title FOREST STOCK MAPPING OF SOLAN FOREST DIVISION USING REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
 
Creator SARKAR, PARAMITA
 
Contributor SHARMA, D.P.
 
Subject area, wood, manpower, biological phenomena, remote sensing, forest products, forest resources, land resources, layering, fruits
Forest stock mapping ,remote sensing,geographical information system,Himachal Pradesh
 
Description ABSTRACT
The present investigation entitled “Forest stock mapping of Solan Forest Division using
remote sensing and geographical information system” was carried out during 2009-2011 in Solan
Forest Division of Himachal Pradesh, located between 30o 45’ 00’’ to 31o 10’00’’ N latitude and
76o 55’00’’ to 77o 15’00’ E longitude, at elevation from 600m to 2260 m a.m.s.l. to develop forest
resource database and produce stock map for the Solan Forest Division. Various vector data layers
were extracted from the stock map available with the divisional office and to these data layers,
data base comprising of area, number of trees, volume and density derived from the inventory
report were integrated to produce vector based maps which were later rasterised to produce
various kinds of thematic maps. There are five Working Circles, Five Ranges, 256 compartments
and 60 beats in the Soan Forest Division. Small to large variations between recorded and
estimated area of administrative (Ranges), territorial (compartments) and silvicultural (Working
Circles) units were recorded. However, out of total estimated area of 17551.94 ha among land
uses, Chil, Bamboo, Unculturable Blank, Ban Oak, Cultivation, Barren area, Broad Leaved,
Deodar and Khair accounted for 38.85%, 18.98%, 12.37%, 11.98%, 7.36%, 4.90%, 2.94%, 1.44%
and 1.14% area respectively. The Dharampur range, Parwanoo range, Kandaghat range, Solan
range and Subathu range accounted for 41.31%, 35.89%, 10.11%, 9.89%, and 2.78% growing
stock respectively of total growing stock (815767.18 cu m) in the Solan Forest Division. Among
working circles, the Rehabilitation Working Circle, Chil Working Circle, Chil/Rehabilitation
Working Circle, Ban Oak Working Circle, Chil/Ban Oak Working Circle accounted for 36.15%,
27.20%, 19.43%, 16.47%, 0.73%, of total growing stock, respectively. Periodic Block Inter,
Periodic Block IV, Periodic Block I/IV/Inter, Periodic Block I/Inter, Periodic Block I, and
Periodic Block I/IV accounted for 30.09%, 26.42%, 20.48%, 14.83%, 8.14% and 5.69%, of total
growing stock in Chil Working Circle (386452.37 cu m), respectively. Among the different Forest
Vegetation of Solan Forest Division the Chil and Broad Leaved, Pure Chil, Mix, Ban Oak and
Chil, Bamboo, Broad Leaved and Pure Ban Oak accounted for 32.75%, 22.52%, 14.64%, 8.85%,
6.59% and 1.36% of total growing stock, respectively. Successful laying of growing stock vector
layer over NDVI image was observed that indicates the potential of remote sensing data in the
mapping of growing stock
 
Date 2017-01-03T15:05:38Z
2017-01-03T15:05:38Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier 47698
http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/94188
 
Language en
 
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