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Streamlining Forest Management with
Web-Based Geoportals

Forests cover nearly one third of the Earth’s land surface,providing timber, food, fuel, storage and recycling ofwater, habitat for a variety of plants and animals, andrecreational benefits.
But threats to the world’s forests are growing. Expanding
agriculture methods, illegal and unsustainable logging,
wildfires, and development pressures are some of themajor threats impacting forests globally.
Forest agencies, both local and regional, are tasked with:•••••

Oversight of forest health issues
Maintaining and protecting vegetation and wildlife
habitats
Managing lands for recreational use
Firefighting
Managing timber, food, and fuel resources

In order to provide these services and protect forest
ecosystems, forest agencies are working to monitor,
react, and preserve rich and diverse natural resources.
Owing to the economic importance of forest wealth,forest agencies need to systematically organize theplanning, implementation, and monitoring of all forestryrelated operations. They keep track of changes in boththe amount of area that is forested as well as how thatland is being used. They collect and store a variety of
GIS and geospatial data. This data must then be madeavailable to all stakeholders, including the remote andrural tribes who depend on the forest for their livelihood.

Fire and Theft Reporting, Watershed andMining Area Mapping
Situated in eastern India, forests and woodlands coverabout 30% of the state of Jharkhand, whose namedenotes ‘area of land covered with forests’. Jharkhand
Forest Department is entrusted with all matterspertaining to forests and forestry; including protecting
and conserving forest and wildlife resources of the statethrough scientific forest management practices.
Jharkhand Forest Geoportal consists of numerous
modules, including:••••••

Number and location of forest fires in the state of JharkhandForesters begin by processing satellite images using ERDASIMAGINE to prepare them for analysis. Next, foresters
create complex spatial models using Spatial Modeler inERDAS IMAGINE. These models are used to perform Forest
Cover Change, Forest Encroachment Change, Forest Fire
Burnt Area Identification, Forest Density Change, and Water
Index studies in their area of interest.
Their spatial and non-spatial data is organized intoa centralized library and distributed through ERDASAPOLLO. In this solution, the spatial and non-spatial data
can be searched and efficiently rendered in the portal. Inaddition, the complex spatial models can be published,and users can run and reuse these models, and generate
PDF reports.

Forest Monitoring
Madhya Pradesh is the second-largest state in India, bygeographic area. Fully one-third of the state is dense
forestland, consisting of 18 unique forest types, ranging
from thorn-forests to subtropical hill forests. In addition
to providing catchment areas for the Narmada, Chambal,
Betwa, and Sone rivers, the jungles are home to tigers,buffalo, and a wide variety of deer, antelope, and birds.
These forests represent a significant resource for thestate, with both forestry (primarily teak) and non-timber
forest products such as medicinal herb collection
contributing to the welfare of the citizens.

Forest Fire
Citizen Forest Incident Reporting
Micro Level Watershed
Plantation Monitoring
Mining Area Mapping
Wildlife Reporting

Forest managers and citizens can use the web-based
geoportal to submit reports that include the geographic
location of the incident, what type of damage is evident,
reporting date and time, and upload photos.
In this solution, data modeling, watershed extraction,slope generation, vector and other data management
are carried out using ERDAS IMAGINE®, GeoMedia®, andERDAS APOLLO from Hexagon’s Geospatial division.

Total forest fire count in a southern district of Jharkhand

wildlife resources. Using their web-based WWI module
for wildlife monitoring, managers and researchers canupload photographs and report information, as well as
perform damage assessment and man-animal conflict
zonation management.

Plantation Monitoring

Madhya Pradesh Forest Department portal provides maps to the public.
Registered and domain users have access to advanced processing and GIS
functionality.

Madhya Pradesh Forestry Department has formed 15,228
Joint Forest Management Committees that protect andmanage about 70% of the state’s forest areas.
Madhya Pradesh Forestry Department uses a webbased forest monitoring time series module to identify
trends and changes over a period of time to measureoccurrences such as disturbances in vegetation or
expansion of agricultural land usage. ERDAS IMAGINE
provides the time series analysis through change
detection technology. To set up the server-side, ondemand geoprocessing tasks, the department uses theSpatial Modeler in ERDAS IMAGINE. This tool provides
an ever-growing toolbox of geoprocessing operators thatallow the Forestry Department to build their own models
and publish them to ERDAS APOLLO as Web Processing
Services (WPS). This enables the forest officials toperform server-side, on-demand change-detection offorest using temporal imagery directly in the ERDASAPOLLO catalog with no software requirement at theclient side.

Wildlife Reporting
Based in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, situated near
the Himalayan foothills, Wildlife Institute of India trains
biologists, wildlife ecologists, socio-economists, andmanagers to build up scientific knowledge, carry out
research, and provide information on conservation andVideo feed of wildlife sightings inset on a map of marked sightings,
provided in Wildlife Institute of India portal.

Situated in the middle western part of India,
Maharashtra state is one of India’s biggest commercial
and industrial centers, earning the name gateway ofIndia. Comprised of Mumbai, its capital city, and othercosmopolitan cities, the state’s varied landscapes
range from beaches to mountains, including wildlife
sanctuaries and national parks.
Maharashtra Forest Department, custodian ofMaharashtra state’s rich bio-diversity, aims to augment
green cover on non-forest areas to achieve nationaltargets of 33% of land area to be under green cover.

Plantation seedling statistics, maps, and images in Maharashtra Forest Geoportal

Using Maharashtra Forest Geoportal, plantations
throughout the state can be superimposed on a satellitebase map and combined on an interactive dashboardthat includes live video feeds via a mobile app and otherdynamic plantation status information. One example isplant nursery seedlings utilization analysis, available tousers per individual plantation sites.
Hexagon’s solutions and component-based Spatial
Modeler technology employ a modular design. With
these, users can build their own desktop, server, or
cloud solutions that incorporate only the geoprocessingthat they need. The 450+ geoprocessing services
use multi-source data to perform operations suchas georeferencing, orthorectification, and change
detection. By extracting and repurposing provengeospatial technology into stand-alone functionalelements, Hexagon has enabled users and partners tocreate streamlined, targeted applications that solve theirspecific problems.

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