Haryana Community Forestry Project

CREATION OF MAPS FOR DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES AND PURPOSES

For the purpose of Agro-forestry model adoption we have prepared a map with different climatic zones and soil type which may help in deciding the kind of species for that area.

Map showing the Income Generating Activities (IGA) (in different stages of their implementation) This map gets updated every month for any development related to the IGA.

Map showing clusters year-wise, block-wise and the number of villages in the cluster. Its gets updated after every village selection or rejection.

Map showing the Energy Efficient Technology adopting Villages.

Map for the water harvesting structure showing the dam site, pipeline and command area for villages having this model.

Photo-Point Monitoring: It’s a very impressive technique of monitoring which we are using here. It gives a real visual view of trees growing over the years.

The M&E Division will be responsible for establishing the Photo Monitoring Points in the field together with the VRMC members. The points can be fixed in the form of small concrete beacons with direction arrows or they may be located at existing fixed points such as walls, permanent fence posts, electric poles, large boulders or rocks. For existing points, direction marks will be needed to guide the photography, for new beacons metal arrows can be fixed on top of the beacon. These points will help taking the photos from the same direction and of the same area which will be very good for the visual comparison.

After these point are set the photographer goes to every village with a digital camera, where all the microprojects have been implemented and takes the photograph of each model showing the monitoring point set, in to the picture. Once these photographs are brought to the headoffice, they are downloaded to the village photo directory for the particular model which is already set on the system. Once a photograph is downloaded to the directories, it is linked with the existing village map showing the different models' locations in the village. As soon as photographs are linked with the points, one can just click on any location mark on the map. For each model a web page asking which year photograph you want to see is displayed. Here one may find up to seven years growth after plantation, clicking on a particular year to see that year's photograph. Since these photographs are taken from the same angle and location one can easily visually compare different years for growth and survival.

Use of Global Positioning System (GPS): GPS is emerging as a very accurate and fast source of digital cartographic data collection, therefore it is almost difficult not to make the use of it.

For village resource mapping and monitoring purpose. As in India no geocoded data is available on village level, it is very difficult to do any village level geo-analysis. Here GPS comes into the picture, still it is difficult to record the village boundary but other village natural resources and landuses can be mapped by GPS with the accuracy of 1-5 meters which is reasonably ok for the forestry applications. There is a plan to map all roads, johads, wasteland area, area under abadi deh, forest area etc. This mapping can be very good to check the current landuse and suggest for the better land use planning for balancing the Eco-system. The second purpose of using GPS is  monitoring of the different community forestry models as Village Woodlots and Community Sand Dune Fixation, once these models are implemented in the village the surveyor will carry the GPS (Geo-Explorer 3) and map the plantation area and bring it to the headoffice and download it to geodatabase directory and process it for the corrections, after the processing is done the data is ready. As it is already geo-coded we get and the  area is calculated automatically, area can be  matched   with the plantation figure for any discrepencies. As Baseline Geo-Data is created in the process, it can be monitored after certain time for the growth trends and survival of plants.

Remote Sensing: Remote-sensing technology is  very cost  effective and time efficient tool of monitoring in the field of forest and environment. Since it gives a large view with the ability to differentiate the different landuse on the earth surface the changes can be figured out over the year.

To make the Baseline in the five blocks, project is  carrying out a remote sensing study for the BIOMass estimation and to check the land use, . Using the high-resolution multi spectral data from Ikonos. The study is planned to be carried out after four years to monitor the forest cover (tree cover) change after the implementation of the project. The high-resolution data will be used for the village level and IRS-1c Liss3 and Pan (Merged) will be used for the block level analysis.

The land use map with the other cartographic layers for the village, will be produced on cadastral map scale and for the block level maps will be on 1:25,000.

Click Here to See Plantation and Village Resource Map of Project Villages Mapped by GPS