Anthropogenic Impacts on Forest Ecosystems Using Remotely Sensed Data: Fid-Bau Portal

Anthropogenic Impacts on Forest Ecosystems Using Remotely Sensed Data

Gandhi, Gaurav G. / Patil, Kailas A.

Modernizations are beneficial to the comfortable condition of living; they also negatively impact the world of which we belong. Human activity that causes environmental harm (either directly or indirectly) on a global scale include human reproduction, overconsumption, overexploitation, pollution, and deforestation, to name just a few. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is a band ratio technique that helps to determine the health of the vegetation. NDVI has been extensively used to study land use and land cover changes, agricultural drought analysis, forest fire analysis, and climate change detection. In this study, NDVI of three forest areas in the Vidarbha region of India, namely, Pench National Park, Tadoba Tiger Reserve, and Gadchiroli forest are studied to determine the anthropogenic effects of Nagpur, Chandrapur, and Gadchiroli on the forest areas respectively for past twenty-one years. In the process, the land use and land cover of the cities have been studied and change in weather conditions has been predicted. On the other hand, the meteorological parameters, like the temperature and rainfall have been studied for the three forests and have been related to NDVI of these forests and then compared with the weather predictions from the land use and the land cover maps of the cities. The anomalies in these two are justified with probable justifications. The study revealed the effects of local anthropogenic activities on these forests. It is concluded that the local human activities have an impact on the forest vegetation along with the locational aspect of an area.