Activities (Forest Informatics)

At present the Discipline is mainly involved in following major activities:

Implementation of research on climate change vegetation modelling.
Development of Biodiversity Information System (BIS).
Capacity building of officers, scientists, students of FRI as well as other Institutes in the field of Remote Sensing-GIS and informational technology. Every year in the month of September one week training course on RS-GIS application is conducted. Please ask for further details by sending queries to frirsgis@gmail.com
Conducting IIRS sponsored distance learning course under Outreach programme of EDUSAT. GIS centre of FRI is one of the recognised Centre of IIRS for conducting EDUSAT courses. Download Course calendar for the year 2021.
Guiding PhD research scholars of FRI Deemed to be University on the applications of geo-informatics for forestry through its Research and Advisory Committee on “Forest Geo-informatics”.