ISPRS-Archives The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 ISPRS Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXVIII-8-W20-82-2011 MAN IN BIOSPHERE RESERVE: A REMOTE SENSING STUDY IN SIMILIPAL, ORISSA Biswal A. 1 Mukherjee S. 2 Jeyaram A. 1 Krishna Murthy Y.V.N. 1 Regional Remote Sensing centre (East), NRSC, ISRO, Kolkata, India Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata, India 31 08 2012 XXXVIII-8/W20 82 86 Copyright: © 2011 A. Biswal et al. 2011 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XXXVIII-8-W20/82/2011/isprs-archives-XXXVIII-8-W20-82-2011.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XXXVIII-8-W20/82/2011/isprs-archives-XXXVIII-8-W20-82-2011.pdf

The Similipal is a densely forested hill-range in the heart of Mayurbhanj district,Orissa, lying close to the eastern-most end of the Easternghats. Similipal Biosphere Reserve is located in the Mahanadian Biogeographical Region and within the Biotic Province, Chhotanagpur Plateau.There are 4 villages in the core and 61 villages in the buffer area of the biosphere reserve .Agriculture is not well developed and employment opportunities are very poor , most of the people derive their income from collection of NTFP and sale of firewood and timber. A collaborative work is carried out by Regional Remote Sensing Centre(East) and Anthropological survey of India,Kolkata to study the impact of those four villages in the core area of SBR on the conservation of natural resources over the decades.Change in vegetation density as measured by NDVI over the decades is analysed to study the impact of these villages on the core area of Similipal Biosphere Reserve.