Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques for Forage Production Assessment and Management of Northern Chhattisgarh in India

Grasslands play a vital ecological and environmental role in global carbon balance and climate change. In the prairie provinces of Canada, grasslands occupy approximately 25 M ha of the land base and provide a valuable resource to the multi-billion dollar cattle industry. In recent years, remote sensing technology has been applied for estimating the fractional cover of arid grasslands and savannah ecosystems (Asner and Heidebrecht, 2003; Marsett et al. 2006; Guerschman et al., 2009). Grassland, a specific ecosystem, occurs naturally on all continents excluding Antarctica (White et al., 2000). Remote sensing imagery needs to be converted into tangible information which can be utilized in conjunction with other data sets, often within widely used Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Remote Sensing & GIS is the most important technologies since last decades for the delineation, assessment and management of the natural resource (forage production). Using these methods we delineated the forage resources assessment and management of northern Part of Chhattisgarh. The study areas geo-database has been generated with the help of Arc Map and Erdas Imagine software