Problem Title: Drone-Forest Department

Problem Description:

The geographical area of the MP state is 308,252 km² which constitutes 9.38% of the land area of the country. The forest area of the state is 95,221 km² constituting 30.71% of the geographical area of the state and 12.44% of the forest area of the country. Legally this area has been classified into "Reserved Forest, Protected Forest and Unclassified Forest". Thus MPFD has an area of 95,221 km² which needs to be survey regularly for monitoring and controlling of its flora and fauna. Following are the areas where drone/ UAV (Unmanned Arial Vehicle) can be used by MPFD.

1. Survey of forest boundary, Forest Type, Vegetation mix, species identification.
2. Forest health survey and management.
3. Carbon credit tracking.
4. Wildlife identification and assessment.
5. Vangram, forest dwellers & human habitation identification & controlling.
6. Fire and natural calamities survey and assessment.
7. For monitoring and control of Illicit felling of tress and illegal mining.
8. Nursery plantation trackingand management.
9. Working plan monitoring and management.
10. Forestarea patrolling.
11. Forest volume & analysis

Thus the use of Drone with other ICT technologies the aforementioned task can be performed with minimum manual efforts and intervention. Further data obtained from above work will be tamperproof thus providing better and effective decision making and support system to field and administrative officers of MPFD.