Role of Remote Sensing & GIS in Forest Fire Zonation in Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve of Madhya Pradesh

Author:
MANEESHA JYOTISHI, R. K. SINGH, KISHOR SONWANE and SANDHYA PADEGAONKAR
Affiliation:

Remote Sensing Applications Centre, Madhya Pradesh Council of Science & Technology, Bhopal India

Corresponding Author Email:- mjyotishi@hotmail.com

Keyword:
Fire risk zonation, Analytical hierarchical process (AHP), Multi criteria decision making (MCDM).
Issue Date:
February, 2017
Abstract:

Forest fires are a big threat to physical environment. It not only change the land use/ land cover pattern, vegetation type and cover, ecosystem, biodiversity of the area, but also harm the wealth, property, money, health even the life of the people in that area. In total, forest fire has great concern on human health and on the socio-economic situation of affected countries. It also has profound impacts on the chemical environment too by changing the composition of air, formation of clouds, increase in degree and duration of global temperature and all these in total, effect the climate change by producing toxic and harmful gasses in the environment. Remote sensing data is most promising data for such work as it have synoptic and repetitive coverage and mapping can be done at a lesser cost and shortest time than any conventional methods. Remote sensing technique together with GIS has been emphasized for mapping variables and integrating the same for generation of fire risk zonation maps in representative wildlife habitats of Madhya Pradesh. Satty’s Analytical Hierarchical Approach (AHP) is very effective for the development of models as it is a multi-parametric and logical one. Various spatial and non-spatial layers can be utilized analyzed in it and effective result can be synthesis. Overall 2.5% of the study area comes under very high risk zone and 53.8% as high risk zone, which shows a high need for fire aversion. Easily accessible areas which are more vulnerable of fire and most of them are deliberate because of anthropogenic reasons. Vegetation is in better condition at high elevations in contrast with the lower elevations, purely because of accessibility. An ggregate are of 7.1% is either under low or low fire hazard.

Pages:
42-45
ISSN:
2319-8052 (Online) - 2231-3478 (Print)
Source:
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.22147/jusps-B/290206
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