MAPPING OF FUEL WOOD TREES IN KOLAR DISTRICT
USING REMOTE SENSING DATA AND GIS

Datasets Used :
    Spatial (village, taluk, district maps) and  non-spatial  data  (demography, 
       population, etc.),
    Survey of India maps of scale 1:50,000 used to generate vector layers of
       road  network, administrative  boundaries,  contours, drainage network, etc.
    Village revenue maps-digitised to map resources at village level,
    Village wise vector layer showing all trees (species wise) was prepared through
       an extensive field  survey using  GPS (Global Positioning System)
    Remotely sensed data of 23.5 m ( IRS-LISS-III) and 5.8 m spatial resolution 
      (IRS-PAN) having a cloud cover  less than 2 percent - for land cover and land 
      use analyses. Classification of this data  requires  collection of primary data 
      (Ground  control  points) to  correlate  the  ground  information with remotely 
      sensed data.