Forest Department plans to set up Integrated Command and Control Centre

Forest Department intends to set up Integrated Command and Control Centre Modelled on the system that exists in Karnataka, the facility helps in forest mapping and digital surveillance on wildlife movement and forest activities.

Key points

• Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Environment & Forests K.
• The ICCC is intended to monitor all activities from a single place, observes Deputy Chief Minister K.
• Pawan Kalyan remarked forest mapping and digital surveillance should be done on wildlife movements and forest activities on a full scale through the proposed ICCC.

In practice, the ICCC is intended to monitor all activities from a single place, observes Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan. Photo Credit: File Photo.

Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Environment & Forests K. Pawan Kalyan informed office-holders of the Forest Department to prepare an action plan for setting up an advanced Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) at Aranyaramam, near Mangalagiri, for the sake of protecting forests and wildlife, similar to the facility that exists in Karnataka.

In a review session on Thursday, Mr. Pawan Kalyan remarked forest mapping and digital surveillance should be done on wildlife movements and forest activities on a full scale through the proposed ICCC. He observed that a team from Andhra Pradesh had lately studied the IT policies, GIS, mobile applications, ICCC, and other systems followed by the Karnataka Forest Department and submitted a detailed report thereof.

In practice, the ICCC is intended to monitor all activities from a single place, including the maintenance of geo-spatial dashboards, drone-based surveys, real-time analysis of wildlife numbers through camera traps, tracking of vehicles traveling along forest routes and keeping a tab of patrolling parties, forest fires and human-wildlife conflicts.

Mr. According to Kalyan, impressive results were being achieved by the e-Gastu mobile application of the Karnataka Forest Department, and suggested that a similar facility be developed in the State and its integration with the Forest Portal and Single Sign-On systems, which were already under implementation.

In short, forest Department plans to set up Integrated Command and Control Centre is the central thread here, and readers can expect follow-up reporting as the picture becomes clearer.