Forest Survey of India


Forest Survey of India, founded in June 1981 and headquartered at Dehradun in Uttarakhand, is a Government of India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change organisation for conducting forest surveys, studies and research to periodically monitor the changing situation of land and forest resources and present the data for national planning, conservation and sustainable management of environmental protection as well for the implementation of social forestry projects.

History

Founded in 1976, Forest Survey of India is the successor of "Preinvestment Survey of Forest Resources", a project initiated in 1965 by the government of India with the sponsorship of Food and Agriculture Organization and United Nations Development Programme. In its report in 1976, the National Commission on Agriculture recommended the creation of a National Forest Survey Organization for a regular, periodic and comprehensive forest resources survey of the country, leading to the creation of FSI in the same year.

Organisation

FSI assesses forest cover of the country every 2 years by digital interpretation of remote sensing satellite data and publishes the results in a biennial report called 'State of Forest Report'.Beginning in 1987, 16 SFRs have come so far. Since 2004, FSI has been monitoring forest fires across the country using MODIS and GIS based technology.

Training

FSI provides training to the foresters cadres of various states of India.

Publications

FSI has biennial "The Indian State of Forest Reports" and area-specific reports on "The Reports on Inventory and Wood Consumption Studies".