Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Sridhar Samal Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 06/03/2024. The matter related to pollution caused by Talcher Coalfield under Mahanadi Coalfields Limited in the course of its operation. It was said that on a daily …
The Kyoto Protocol has made carbon a tradable commodity which signifies the value of forest carbon budgets and the need for understanding factors influencing them. For measuring future consequences of changes in land usage, current level of carbon emission and future patten needs scientific evaluation, if forest based climate mitigation …
Land use and land cover changes due to human activities in a time sequence. Detection of such changes may help decision makers and planners to understand the factors in land use and land cover change in order to take effective and useful measures. Remote sensing and GIS techniques may be …
In the present study, efforts have been made to identify and map areas affected by various soil degradation processes in Hanumangarh district of western Rajasthan. Soil degradation processes were identified by using IRS-1B satellite image of the year 1998, SOI topsheets, ground truth verification and soil studies.
Planning based on agro-ecological zoning aims at scientific management of regional resources to meet the food, fibre, fodder and fuel wood requirements without adversely affecting the status of natural resources and environment. An attempt has been made to map the agro-ecological units for Vellore district of Tamil Nadu and derive …
The planning of conservation measures to conserve water and soil resources taking hydrological planning unit as micro-watershed is considered to be effective. The automated watershed delineation technique using the spline interpolated filled digital elevation model (DEM) is effective in converging slopes of the area in which the stream patterns match …
Presents study consists the results of the Sun photometer measurements of aerosol optical depth (AOD) over the northern Arabian Sea during December 4-17, 2004 along with OCEANSAT-1 Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) data derived AOD estimates. In-situ AOD ranged between 0.15-0.38 at 500-nm wavelength (with a mean of 0.274). Relatively higher …
This State of Forest Report 2009 is the eleventh edition in a biennial series published by the Forest Survey of India. Shows that India's green cover during the period 1997-2007 had grown by 3.13 million hectares. For the first time, India's forests have been mapped into 16 forest type groups …
This document discusses the opportunities and constrains of carbon accounting for organic agriculture management in developed and developing countries. The aim of this document is to describe the potential of organic agriculture to sequester carbon and to meet the requirements of carbon accounting systems, including factors such as carbon permanence, …
Following the empirical study, cloud-free satellite data were used to study the forests in multi-temporal dimensions. Use of remote sensing data with visual observation/ground truth data is an advanced tool to study and understand the development patterns of the forests. Based on the vegetation index and land cover map a …
The FRA 2010 Remote Sensing survey is a systematic, comprehensive, global study of tree cover and forest land-use changes from 1990 to 2000 to 2005. It presents a consistent methodology for monitoring forest change at a global level that can be expanded for more detailed studies. It is expected that …
Vegetation condition monitoring has been done from 1975 to 2000 in the waste dump of Haizhou opencast coalmine area, China, using remote sensing techniques with the objective of improving our understanding of the temporal and spatial variation of vegetation recovery in the mining dump.
The Revised Operational Guidelines (2009) of the National Afforestation Programme (NAP) are being issued to further decentralise the project cycle management of the Scheme with a view to expedite fund transfer to the village-level implementing organisation, that is the Joint Forest Management Committees (JFMCs) and Eco-development Committees (EDCs), to embed …
To check illegal mining activities in the State, the State Government maintained that it is contemplating to prepare a map of the actual mining lease area by using remote sensing technology.
In a clear sign of the growing faith of the US in Indian space programmes, two top US agencies - the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - signed a letter of intent (LoI) on Wednesday to obtain data from the Oceansat-2 …
Top scientists associated with remote sensing application believe that it is now possible to predict occurrence of earthquakes with reasonable precision
The main objectives of the present study are preparation of baseline information on vegetation types, forest burnt area mapping using multi-temporal satellite data and integrated analysis for identification of fire-prone areas in Sirohi district.
Bhopal: Addressing the school students of Orion International Public School on the programme 'Scientist-Children face to face' here today Thakral Institute of Science and Technology Director and Remote Technique specialist Dr NK Tiwari said that by using remote sensing and communication technology, a better plan of Bhopal development could be …
Despite mounting evide-nce of China undertaking construction of dams, purportedly to divert the Brahmaputra river, India today reiterated its stand that Beijing is
The National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) confirmed on Tuesday that construction was on at the Zangmu site on the Chinese side of the Brahmaputra river, prompting the government to take up the matter with China at a
