IRS-1C DATA UTILIZATION FOR FORESTRY APPLICATIONS

The IRS-1C satellite with its sensors onboard has the immense potentia l to provide information on forest resources for their surveillance an d monitoring. Towards this the early results on the use of high tempor al wide swath WiFS data for rapid forest mapping have been demonstrate d. The data from LISS-III and capability for 1 : 25,000 scale forest c over mapping amply demonstrate the potential of IRS-1C for effective m onitoring of forest resources, The use of WiFS data for fire monitorin g and LISS data for assessing afforestation and deforestation has been discussed, The PAN data for microlevel studies have been found adequa te and discussed in this article.