1. National Forest Demarcation & Bio-Physical Resource Inventory Project Vijay Datadin GIS & Data Management Specialist Banana Industry Trust/ Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Forestry & Fisheries

2. The Saint Lucia Forestry Department has embarked on a process … new forest sector management plan. National Forest Demarcation & Bio-Physical Resource Inventory Project Banana Industry Trust/ Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Forestry & Fisheries Important in the management plan will be redefining the department’s mission to conform to an ecosystem approach to the management of forest resources.

3. Prerequisites to plan formulation and implementation are delineation of the forest resource, and determining the quantity and quality/ nature/ characteristics of the biophysical resources. National Forest Demarcation & Bio-Physical Resource Inventory Project Banana Industry Trust/ Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Forestry & Fisheries To plan what to do where, you’ve got to know where is what.

4. National Forest Demarcation & Bio-Physical Resource Inventory Project Timber Inventory Botanical Survey Mammal Survey Herpetological Survey Insect Survey Bird Survey Land Survey Managed with GIS

5. GIS TOR Build GIS Produce Maps Link with Forest Management Information System (Inventory) Produce Maps

6. What is GIS? Geographic Information System Data-crunching power of a database Communication ability of a map Humans think spatially. GIS works spatially.

7. What is GIS? Since it is an Information System Hardware – PCs, GPS Software – ArcGIS; IDRISI, ERDAS, ILWIS Dedicated personnel – it is a speciality Institutionalised protocols/ procedures

8. What has the GIS been used for in this project? Planning fieldwork Rapid reporting and quality control Final reports Integration of surveys Integration of other data Analysis

9. Timber Inventory

15. Timber Inventory Fieldwork FMIS Spread- sheet GIS data Analytical Maps Done by SLFD

16. Planning Fieldwork for other Surveys

17. Botanical Survey

18. Mammal Survey

19. Mammal Survey

20. Mammal Survey

21. Bird Survey

22. Herpetological Survey

23. Herpetological Survey

24. Land (Boundary) Survey

25. LandSat 7 ETM+ Imagery integration in the GIS 30m resolution Suitable for Vegetation Analysis Tropical conditions Cloud cover High biodiversity

26. LandSat 7 ETM+ Classification with Botanical Survey data

29. LandSat 7 ETM+ Classification with Botanical Survey data Vegetation Map of Saint Lucia

30. Management Plan Incorporate archival data with current surveys Produce verifiable metrics

31. Integration of high resolution IKONOS imagery

33. National Forest Demarcation & Bio-Physical Resource Inventory Project Vijay Datadin Banana Industry Trust/ Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Forestry & Fisheries GIS & Data Management Specialist vijay@caribbeangis.com