Forestry
& Ecology
The
Forestry and Ecology Division (in short,FED) was
established in 1966. It is one of the eight Divisions of
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing ( IIRS ). It has
seven faculty members specializing in different fields
of Forestry and Ecology and two supporting staff to
lookafter the office.
Sphere
of Activities
The
Division is engaged in the capacity building through
training and education, research and
projects/consultancy work in the field of forest surveys
and monitoring, forest inventory, ecosystem analysis,
eco-development planning, wildlife habitat evaluation,
biome level characterization of vegetation etc.. The
Division organises five courses each year viz., P.G.
Diploma/M.Tech . Course of IIRS, P.G. Diploma/M.Tech.
Course of Center for Space Science and Technology
Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTE-AP), National
Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS), ISRO-sponsored
Course, GIS for Forest Management Course and few modules
of Hazard and Risk Analysis (HRS) Course. Special tailor
made courses aer organized for IFS officers and other
user groups on demand. The target groups for training
are Decision Makers, Forest Officers, Academicians and
Researchers from Central/State Governments, Autonomous
Organizations, Universities and Non-Government
Organisations. The Division has well-equipped
laboratories with latest hardware and software and
facilities for visual/digital image interpretation and
Geographic Information System (GIS) for spatial data
analysis. There are also a large number of field
instruments and the course participants are given
sufficient exposure to handle them. So far, 475 trainees
have passed from the Division. This includes 417 Indians
and 58 foreigners. Eight Researchers of this division
have been awarded Ph.D. degree by different
Universities.
Research and
Specialization
The Faculty of FED undertake research work in a variety of
the areas such as forest resource assessment density
mapping, wildlife habitat modeling, fire risk assessment,
biodiversity characterization, biome level
characterization, landscape dynamics analysis and
predictive modeling, growing stock assessment, forest
damage detection, grassland carrying capacity estimation,
fuel wood/fodder analysis and biomass estimation and have
specialized over time in these areas.
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