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Move over GIS, its back to basics [1]

Manpower to battle bushfire.
This summer, the state is going to depend on traditional methods to fight forest fires after its brush with the geographic information system (GIS) last year failed to yield the desired results.

Among the customary methods the forest department is set to adopt this summer is setting up of multiple fire tracking teams in each forest division.

The teams, comprisin

Publication Date: 
10/03/2011
Telegraph (Ranchi) [2]
Tags:
Jharkhand [3], Geographical Information Systems (GIS) [4], Forests [5], Forest Fires [6], Dalma SA [7]

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/move-over-gis-its-back-basics
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/telegraph-ranchi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/jharkhand
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/geographical-information-systems-gis
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-fires
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/dalma-sa