FOREST COVER

15th Forest cover assessment

COM101-Payal Mukherjee
Anuj Prajapati AU1811349
Ketul Patel AU1812111
Dhairya Shah AU1813069
Mehul Chopra AU1811407
Yash Barada AU1811405
Parv Agarwal AU1812052
Keshav Agarwal AU1811456
Overview
● Introduction
● Forest cover assessment methodology
● Quality assurance and control
● state/UT wise forest cover
● Forest cover in Hill district
● Forest cover in Tribal district
● Forest cover in the north-eastern states
Introduction
● This is the 15th forest cover assessment in the series of biennial forest cover
assessments initiated in the year 1987.
● Biennial assessments describe “how much and where our forest cover is, irrespective
of its origin, species, ownership, land use or legal status’: All tree stands with canopy
density over 10% having an extent.
● Including bamboos, orchards, coconut, palm etc within recorded forest, private,
community or institutional lands are thus reflected in the assessment of forest cover.
● Bhis helps forest managers and policy makers involved in scientific management to
track the changes in forest cover.
Forest cover assessment methodology

The major steps involved are

Data preparation, Interpretation to
identify change areas, Ground
truth & post classification
correction, followed by
generation of output.
Quality assurance and control
Quality Assurance(QA) is an integral part of
the any efficient technical exercise.

INDIA STATE OF FOREST REPORT

2017

Refresher training course was imparted to

all interpreters both at Headquarters and
Zones in order to ensure continuity and in
both definition and methodology.

During the course of interpretation, A.D.

from the HQ visited the Zones periodically
Quality assurance
179 nos of Sol topo sheets were

and control selected for this exercise based on the

following parameters:

i. Random selection across the two

strata i.e States (Management
regime) and Interpreter (Skill).
15 teams were formed for inter checking ii. Sheets with high net change
of the selected sheets. above threshold.
Forest cover(2017 assessment)
State/UT wise forest cover

Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest

cover (77,414 sq km)

Arunachal Pradesh (66,964 sq km)

Chhattisgarh (55,547 sq km)

Odisha (51,345 sq km)

Maharashtra (50,682 sq km)

Forest cover in Hill district
The forest cover in the hill districts of the
country is 2,83,462 sq km, which is
40.22 per cent of the total geographic
area of these districts.

All districts of the States of Arunachal

Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya,
Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura and
Uttarakhand.

An increase of 754 sq km of forest cover

in all hill districts of the country.
 Tribals and forest have a traditional
Forest cover in Tribal inter linkage and dependence for
fulfilling the social, economic, cultural,
district religious, and medical needs.

Thus it is highly imperative to monitor

and analyze the forest cover situation in
the tribal areas.

An overview of forest cover in the

tribal districts of the country has been
presented.

In all, there are 215 tribal districts in 27

States as identified by the Government
of India under the Integrated Tribal
Development Programme.
 Forest cover in the
north-eastern states
Eight States namely,
Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,
Manipur, Meghalaya,
Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim
and Tripura is endowed with
rich forest resources part of
18 biodiversity hotspots of
the world.

Shifting cultivation has

traditionally been intricately
linked to socio-cultural life
of tribal people.
Thank you:)