Forest Fire Zone Demarcation in Uttara Kannada District Using GIS Techniques

A. G. Koppad; Pavan Tikhile; Sandhya Shastri

doi:10.36808/if/2017/v143i8/118980

Forest Fire Zone Demarcation in Uttara Kannada District Using GIS Techniques

Authors

A. G. Koppad Department of Natural Resource Management, College of Forestry, Sirsi-581401, Karnataka
Pavan Tikhile Department of Natural Resource Management, College of Forestry, Sirsi-581401, Karnataka
Sandhya Shastri Department of Natural Resource Management, College of Forestry, Sirsi-581401, Karnataka

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2017/v143i8/118980

Keywords:

Forest, Fire Intensity, GIS, Spatial Location.

Abstract

The study was taken up to assess the intensity of forest fire in different talukas of Uttara Kannada district. The fire spots in Uttara Kannada district from 2012-2016 was taken from the State Forest Report 2016, Forest Survey of India. The location of the fire spots (Latitude and Longitude) are converted in to shape file. The fire spots are shown in the map from 2012 to 2016. The forest fire intensity over the period of five years are exhibited in separate map and fire intensity from very low to high has been depicted. The results indicated that the higher fire intensity zone is found in north and north east part of the Uttara Kannada district covering the taluka of Mundgod, Haliyal and part of Jioda. Moderate fire intensity zone is covered in part of Mundgod, Yellapur and Joida. Remaining talukas are having low to very low forest fire intensity. The higher forest fire zone in Mundgod, Haliyal and part of Jioda taluka is due to the dry deciduous forest.

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