Remote Sensing and GIS Application in Forest Conservation Planning (Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences)

This book focuses on the challenges in conservation, management and protection of forests in India as well as other countries, using recently developed technologies. Various topics are discussed including remote sensing, GIS, land use land cover, forest conservation techniques, social economics effects, fire forecasting models and the effect of fire on natural resources, among others. The book provides multi-disciplinary overviews for academicians, administrators, policymakers and professionals involved in the diverse aspects of sustainable forest development, planning and management, and forecasting and extinguishing forest fires.

The book helps readers better understand the development of forests by planning and management in India and other countries, with the following focuses:

-       Forest area conservation in India and other countries

-       Advanced techniques for planning and conservation of forest cover

-       Forest conservation modeling using remote sensing and GIS techniques

-       Forest fire forecasting models used in remote sensing and GIS environments

Dr. Kanak N. Moharir Ph.D. from Amravati University, she is working as Asst. Professor in remote sensing department at Banasthali Vidyapith. With more than 8 years of teaching and research experience, and published more than 45 research papers in various national and international journals and 15 research papers presented in national and international conferences with citations 2138. My research interests include remote sensing, watershed management, hydrology, land use and land cover, aquifer mapping, groundwater modeling, hydrogeology, geomorphology and geology. I worked as reviewers of Twelve journals. I worked as an editor on five books out of which four from Springer and one is from Taylor & Francis Group.

Dr. Chaitanya Baliram Pande completed his Ph.D. in environment science at Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, India, and an M.Sc. in geoinformatics at Amravati University in 2011. He has more than 13 years of teaching, research and industry experience. He is included in the 2% Stanford scientist list, 2024.  He is a reviewer for several scientific journals of international repute, and he is an editorial board member in the American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. He has published 120+ research papers, 2 textbooks, 10 edited books, 19 conference papers and 25+ book chapters. Altogether, they have received more than 4314 citations as per google scholar. His research interests include remote sensing, GIS, air pollution, Google Earth Engine, machine learning, watershed management, hydrogeology, hydrological modelling, drought monitoring, land use and land cover analysis, groundwater quality, urban planning, hydro-geochemistry, groundwater modelling, geology, hyperspectral remote sensing, and GIS applications in natural resources and watershed management, and environmental monitoring and assessment.