Village land revenue maps obtained from the Department of Settlement and Land Records were used for detailed mapping of various landscape elements. Individual trees, plantation, area under agriculture and horticulture , waterbodies were mapped with its geographic co- ordinates using GPS. This exercise was repeated in 30 villages, selected so as to represent Kolar taluk. The parameters such as zone number, survey number, tree type, girth at breast height (GBH), height, agriculture type and soil type along with the co-ordinates (latitude, longitude and elevation) were noted down. In case of a patch, a sample plots (polygon) were chosen. Sample plots dimension depends on density of trees and the type of patch (homogenous or heterogeneous). In case of homogenous uniform patch (like Acacia, Eucalyptus plantations), sample plot size is 100 sq.m, while in the case of heterogeneous patch sample plot size is 400 sq.m. Tree density and species density were computed for each sample plot. This field map is digitised to vector layer using GIS software- Mapinfo version 5.5.