Supporting Partner: UNDP/UNTRS
Duration: May to July 2008
Objectives: To build capacities of village level volunteers and emergency operation centres in Pondicherry and develop risk and vulnerability maps for the Union Territory of Pondicherry.
Workshop on GIS for Geography Teachers
Organisers: State Training Center - Pondicherry.
Duration: 24th to 29th of March, 2008.
Objectives: Introduction to basic concepts and tools for GIS to high and secondary school teachers.
FERAL recently completed a 5 day workshop on introductory GIS for the State Training Centre, Pondicherry as part of their teacher training. The week long workshop started on March 24th '08 and targetted high school geography teachers in government schools.
Introductory course on participatory GIS and environmental monitoring
Supporting Partner: Pondicherry University, UNDP/UNTRS
Duration: 19th to 23rd March, 2007
Objectives: To introduce participatory GIS techniques and open source GIS and remote sensing to students are development professionals.
FERAL and the M.Sc. Programme in Sustainable Development, Pondicherry University successfully conducted a week long introductory workshop on Particpatory GIS at the Pondicherry University from the 19th to the 23rd of March, 2007. The workshop covered field methods and introduced vector GIS on GRASS and Q-GIS. A one day introduction to remote sensing using GRASS was also held on penultimate day of the workshop.
Policy support to the GreenCoast Project
- Supporting Partner: World Wide Fund for Nature - India
- Duration: February to August 2006
- Cost: Rs.3,80,000/-
- Project Area: Coromandel Coast
- Objectives: To provide scientific and spatial support to the policy component of the GreenCoast project.
- A large area under the Coramandel coast was covered during the study with over fifty villages surveyed using a combination of field and participatory survey techniques. The project area was selected on the basis of available data, particularly imagery. A total of eight different types of schedules and field investigations were run in the course of the study. These covered changes in fisheries both among sea and backwater fisher folk, shrimp farming, coastal zone regulations, environmental monitoring, vegetative shelter belts, coastline changes and reconstruction. Spatial locations of field sites were collected where practical.
Estimating Herbivore Densities in Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve
- Supporting Partner:Department of Science and Technology
- Duration: 2002 to 2005
- Cost: Rs.8,28,000/-
- Project Area: Kalakadu Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tirunelvelli, Tamil Nadu.
- Objectives:
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- To carry out extensive field intensive surveys using valid methods to estimate herbivore densities.
- To establish benchmark estimates for long term monitoring of wildlife populations.
- Prepare training material to help in monitoring wildlife populations.
- To build local capacity to monitor wildlife populations.
- To identify the relation between animal densities and habitat parameters.
- The major achievements of this project include determining population estimations for the entire Tiger Reserve from substantial sampling effort using valid methods based on a spatially explicit survey designs. In addition, this study estimates patch occupancy rates for herbivores, which is the first such report for any species within the country.
