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A wood occurrence absorption task nether the World-Wife Fund for Nature (WWF)-India to foretell wood occurrence successful fire-prone areas is being implemented successful Hosur Forest division.
The inaugural – Tech for Conservation - successful concern with Microsoft, is simply a technology-driven wood occurrence absorption task leveraging precocious geospatial and artificial quality techniques to foretell wood occurrence successful occurrence prone areas, according to WWF-India, that conducted a wood absorption grooming programme earlier this week. The connected the crushed cognition of the inaugural was besides demonstrated.
According to WWF-India, the study, led by Dr. G. Areendran, Director, Tech for Conservation and team, was conducted crossed Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, and Karnataka, selected based connected ecological value and humanities occurrence incidence. A multi-temporal, GIS-based analytical model was developed utilizing humanities datasets spanning astir 13 years, integrating topographic parameters, climatic variables, and anthropogenic factors. These datasets were spatially processed, normalised, and utilized arsenic input features for predictive modeling.
In Hosur Forest Division, investigation connected the wood occurrence hotspots during the January–April occurrence play for the play 2012–2025 revealed a persistent attraction of occurrence enactment successful respective beats. The emergence among the astir affected beats successful 2025 suggested a spatial displacement successful occurrence enactment patterns compared to the semipermanent trend. “The wide investigation indicates the beingness of caller hotspots, sporadic hotspots, oscillating hotspots, and oscillating cold-spots wrong Hosur Forest Division, reflecting dynamic occurrence occurrence patterns implicit time. Specifically, for 2025, the hotspot investigation revealed the beingness of an oscillating cold-spot,” according to WWF-India.
The halfway of the survey progressive instrumentality learning and heavy learning approaches, trained connected humanities occurrence occurrence information and subsequently applied to make aboriginal wood occurrence susceptibilitty maps, classifying regions into aggregate fire-risk categories. All analytical outputs were integrated into a user-friendly, interactive dashboard, providing a robust decision-support model to fortify aboriginal informing systems, heighten occurrence preparedness, and enactment semipermanent wood occurrence absorption and conservation planning, the organisation added.
Earlier this week, the WWF India jointly with the Forest Division organised a wood occurrence absorption gathering with the wood frontline staff, NGO members and the Village Forest Council presidents and implicit 70 members participated. The grooming programme was conducted nether the guidance of the Wildlife Warden, Hosur K. Rajangam, IFS.
Assistant Conservator of Forests (HQ), Basav Singh, IFS, Dr. G. Areendran, Director, Tech for Conservation, WWF-India, and Chief Conservator of Forests, C. H. Padma, IFS took portion successful the meeting.
