India/Forests

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Forest areas can be traced even from low resolution satellite imagery, and so locating all of the forest areas is possible with the available satellite imagery. The Ecological Restoration Alliance map provides an overview of the various ecoregions across the country.


Tagging

Tag wooded areas with natural=wood, natural=scrub or the appropriate natural=* tag.

If you are sure that the area belongs to a reserved/protected forest or community/village forest, then include an additional landuse=forest tag.

For protected areas like National Parks, Wildlife Sanctuaries and Reserve Forest boundaries, use boundary=protected_area + protect_class=*. The protect_class=* can be used to distinguish between these different types of protected areas.

Note: Agricultural areas may also look deceptively similar to wooded areas in low res imagery, however if you look closely you can see noisy patterns showing human activity.


NRSC LULC

The National Remote Sensing Center has released the Landuse/Lancover data for India at a scale of 1:1 million into the public domain. The dataset is available as a WMS server which can be loaded into [JOSM]

WMS URL: 

http://applications.nrsc.gov.in:8080/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w/apps/lulc/Mapfiles/lulc0708_LAN.map&version=1.1.1&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&layer=LULC%20of%20India&

Usage instructions: http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-in@openstreetmap.org/msg01449.html


Statistics (As of 12/2022)

State, or Union territory Forest/Wood(km²) Scrub(km²)
No Code Name Official OSM Official OSM
1 AP Andhra Pradesh 29784 21509 8276 8216
2 AR Arunachal Pradesh 66431 51812 797 37
3 AS Assam 28312 39750 228 86
4 BR Bihar 7381 4538 236 91
5 CT Chhattisgarh 55717 31942 615 98
6 GA Goa 2244 1790 0 17
7 GJ Gujarat 14926 5141 2828 2538
8 HR Haryana 1603 874 159 329
9 HP Himachal Pradesh 15443 5664 322 6
10 JK Jammu and Kashmir 21387 5233 284 0
11 JH Jharkhand 23721 21776 584 49
12 KA Karnataka 38730 16318 4611 3453
13 KL Kerala 21253 5155 30 4
14 MP Madhya Pradesh 77493 61181 5457 9630
15 MH Maharashtra 50798 42401 4247 4746
16 MN Manipur 16598 17345 12145 10
17 ML Meghalaya 17046 3102 663 1
18 MZ Mizoram 17820 4468 1 0
19 NL Nagaland 12251 14000 824 8
20 OR Odisha 52158 53811 4924 283
21 PB Punjab 1847 883 34 6
22 RJ Rajasthan 16655 9567 4809 12013
23 SK Sikkim 3341 787 296 0
24 TN Tamil Nadu 26419 18011 758 1302
25 TG Telangana 21214 15341 2911 494
26 TR Tripura 7722 5711 33 0
27 UP Uttar Pradesh 14818 12075 563 3672
28 UK Uttarakhand 24305 11447 392 389
29 WB West Bengal 16832 4336 156 49
30 AN Andaman and Nicobar Islands 6744 764 1 0
31 CH Chandigarh 23 54 0 2
34 DL Delhi 195 35 0 6
36 LA Ladakh 2272 5 279 14
37 PU Puducherry 53 12 0 15

Data Source: https://fsi.nic.in/isfr-2021/chapter-13.pdf


References

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