Korean Journal of Remote Sensing (대한원격탐사학회지)

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Site Suitability Assessment for Joint Forest Management(JFM) - a Geospatial Approach

  • Jayakumar, S. (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Ramachandran, A. (Tamil nadu Forest Department) ;
  • Bhaskaran, G. (Dept. of Geography, Madras University) ;
  • Heo, Joon (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Kim, Woo-Sun (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University)
  • Published : 2007.10.31
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Abstract

Joint Forest Management(JFM) is a concept of developing partnerships between fringe forest user groups and the Forest Department(FD) on the basis of mutual trust and jointly defined roles and responsibilities with regard to forest protection and development. In India, JFM was started during 1992 and it was implemented in many states. However success rate of JFM activity was not promising. Though there are many factors attributed to the failures, one of the main factors is the JFM site. This paper deals with the significant ground works to be done before planning for JFM using recent technologies such as remote sensing(RS) and Geographic Information System(GIS). Also it deals with the advantages of weighted overlay analysis in selecting suitable sites for JFM taking into consideration the various criteria. As a result of weighted overlay analysis, there were four types of suitability classes viz., less, moderate, highly and un-suitable. The moderately suitable class occupied maximum area(13209.64 ha) than less and highly suitable classes. If JFM is implemented on the suitability area, then the failure could be avoided in the future.

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