Geographical Information System & Jewel of Andhra Pradesh State

Impact Of Geographical Information System In The Effective Management

 Of

Red Sanders

GIS stands for the “Geographical Information System”, a cutting edge technology which would support the decision-making system in managing the landscape of the resources by capturing the data in Geospatial coordinates formats, to identifying, determining, collecting and arrangement of data. GIS technologies are not only meant to identifying and solving the problem but also useful in the decision-making system.

Red sanders are the endangered species of timber trees which was occupied wide stretch in the southern India of fragmented locations in the forest areas. The majority of the plantations spread across Nallamala forests of the Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka.

Red Sanders have major demand from the Eastern Asian countries like China, Malaysia, Singapore and Burma due to the hidden beauty and medicinal values in that species.

GIS usage in Red Sanders Management

Red Sanders management has become more complex as there are now, multiple factors to attain along with multiple criteria and constraints need to be addressed. To solve or address all the issues, need to depend upon the state of art and unmatched technologies available for the current day technological and economic conditions. To fulfill the situation need to be the relay on the latest revolution technologies like GIS and Remote Sensing technology to identify, monitor, analyze and conclude with the meaningful decision in the track down the forest produce, from planting to Transit stage.

Scope of GIS in Red Sanders

GIS provides an unmatched experience in tracking down the identity of Red Sanders species with the help of Geospatial identifiers like lat-long & heat maps.

Ø  In identifying the location of Rand Sanders species by capturing the spatial co-ordinates.

Ø Using polygons in the GIS- Enables to capture the plantation stretch along with the area of the species that occupied.

Ø Heat maps would be useful to monitor the Red sanders density and identifying the coverage of the plantation.

Ø Useful to get an abstract idea of trends and patterns of the species.

Ø Would provide the solutions by Modeling the decision-making system.

How GIS Impacts Red Sanders management Effective manner?

ü In Assessing and Monitor the age and stage of plantations.

ü Protection of illegal transit of Red Sanders.

ü To take the decisions regarding the harvesting of Plantations.

ü Maintaining and Identifying the Inventory & warehouses.

ü Effective managing the spatial databases of Plantations.

ü In fostering the Decision Support Systems.

Impeding factors of Implementing GIS in Red Sanders management

×       Poor Economic conditions

×       Lack of Trained professionals

×       Restricted access of Information

×       Lack of applications that capable to capture the data using GIS.

GIS has to address some key issues to maximize its contribution in Red Sanders management. Need to have robust, customized GIS applications which would capture the data in the geospatial format and represent the captured data in visualization form and graphical display mode. That application must be accommodated decision making.