FOREST FIRE REPORTING in Uttarakhand

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FOREST FIRE REPORTING in Uttarakhand - Use of RS
GIS
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Forest Fire in Chir pine Forests
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Comparison of Forest Cover Map , Forest Type Map
and Forest Fire Maps
There is a strong occurrence of forest fires in
the moderately dense forests and open forests as
compared to very dense forest. The occurrence in
sub-tropical pine forests and tropical dry
deciduous forests is high. The difference in the
number of fires reported in the years 2008 to
2012 exists. The trend being 2008-moderate
occurrence of fires overall and majority in the
Terai belt 2009-high occurrence of fires with
distribution through terai as well as pine
belt 2010- moderate occurrence of fires overall
and majority in the Terai belt 2011-extremely low
occurrence reported and well distributed 2012-
high occurrence of fires with distribution
through terai as well as pine belt These results
are based on the reporting done from the bottoms
up driven wireless communication  
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Reporting through wireless sets

• Reporting of forest fires by the field level
  staff (forest guard / plot watcher / daily wager)
  through wireless sets to the division
  Headquarters
• Stop the fire from spreading through manual
  intervention by the field staff and the local
  villagers
• Reporting of forest fires has so far been a
  bottoms up driven process in which the data from
  field is conveyed to the division and later at
  the top level.

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IT Cell UK forest

• With careful picking of able field staff suitable
  to the requirements of IT Cell a small core group
  created
• The guidance was ably given by SCIENCE
• With time we have evolved a new fire reporting
  system
• to utilize the advancements in RS/GIS in our
  operations

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Created layers for UK forest

• forest boundary (up to the beat and compartment
  level)
• administrative boundaries (of districts)
• railways, roads, fire lines,
• forest chowkies , villages , settlements and
• streams (major and minor)

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Modus Operandi Step 1. Getting Near Real Time
Forest Fire Data (3 hrs.) from EOSDIS NASA site
for South Asia
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Modus Operandi

• Step 2 convert the .kml file from the site to
  .shp file using Arc Info

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Modus operandi Step 3. Overlay the shp file
having Fire Incidence Points over the layers of
Uttarakhand Forest Boundary
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Modus operandi Step 4 Run the Identify Tool
for the points within Uttarakhand state
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Results of Identify Tool operationStep 5 Fire
Reporting done at Compartment Level
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Modus Operandi
Step 6 Intimate The Beat /Range /Division
Incharge About The Fire
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Modus operandi Step 7 Prepare A Map ( Different
For Evening And Morning And Display It On Site)
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Different from previous methods

• FSI Fire reporting gives Lat/Long data we gave
  our field staff the name of the Compartment as
  well
• The field staff could overlay the layers of his
  beat on Google Earth as well to know the area
• Wireless reporting is not exhaustive and manual
  errors are also avoided

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Future

• SMS Server linked to the Geospatial Lab could
  send SMS to the Official Phone number ( CUG ) of
  the Beat Incharge
• Centralized data of the fires reported and acted
  upon by the field staff

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