Firoz Ahmad

About

Firoz Ahmad is working as CIFOR-ICRAF Associate, Geoinformatics, Asia Continental Program. He has won the eGovernance National Award 2020 by Government of India for significant contribution to the Project entitled ‘eForestFire- Himalayan Forest Fire Prediction’ for Arunachal Pradesh. https://static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/National%20eGovernance%20Awardees%202020.pdf
He is selected among top 10 most productive authors in climate change and agriculture research in India in the year 2024 (Baraj et al., 2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29586

He has extensively traveled in various forests of India. His interests are forest mapping, agroforestry mapping, forest fire, and climate interaction, wildlife suitability, urban planning, urban forestry, and watershed monitoring. The idea of modeling land potential towards agroforestry purposes in a GIS environment has been a brainchild of Firoz Ahmad. http://landscapeportal.org/layers/geonode%3Apotential_datasets_for_agroforestry_of_south_asia_mask_protected_area1#more

Furthermore, his objective is to utilizing geospatial technology to address various research gaps for achieving a broader spectrum of Sustainable Development Goals linked to poverty mitigation, livelihood initiation, environmental safeguarding, biodiversity conservation and transformation to climate change.

Employment

• World Agroforestry Centre Associate
  2021 - Present

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology M.Tech.
  1996 - 1998
• Birsa Agricultural University M.SC.(Forestry)
  1994 - 1996
• Birsa Agricultural University B.SC.(Forestry) (Four year degree course)
  1987 - 1993

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (78)

• A Directory of Ethnomedicinal Plants of Reang Ethnic Community in Northeast India
  Bioprospecting of Ethnomedicinal Plant Resources 2024 DOI: 10.1201/9781003451488-10
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• Forest fire estimation and risk prediction using multispectral satellite images: Case study
  Natural Hazards Research 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.nhres.2024.01.007
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• Human-elephant conflict hotspots in Assam: a rapid appraisal method
  Biodiversity and Conservation 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s10531-024-02858-1
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• Afforestation potential mapping of tree outside forest in India for achieving SDG goals and landscape stewardship
  Environmental Sustainability 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s42398-023-00294-5
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• Forest fire in Thailand: Spatio-temporal distribution and future risk identification
  Natural Hazards Research 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.nhres.2023.09.002
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• GIS modeling of environmental parameters for identification of landscape for expansion of biodiversity conservation, and greenery projects (a case study for Neom region, Saudi Arabia)
  Modeling Earth Systems and Environment 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s40808-022-01548-7
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• Agroforestry Suitability Mapping: A Geospatial Approach for Quantifying Land Potential for Intensification
  Sustainability Sciences in Asia and Africa 2023 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-4602-8_17
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• Assessment of spatio-temporal distribution of human-elephant conflicts: a study in Patharia Hills Reserve Forest, Assam, India
  GeoJournal 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s10708-022-10604-9
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• Harnessing the Potentiality of Farm Landscape for Trees Based on Satellite Evaluation: A GIS Modeling Perspective
  Anthropocene Science 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s44177-022-00025-1
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• Satellite-Based GIS Evaluation of Land to Scale Agroforestry Restoration Planning in Afghanistan
  Biophysical Economics and Sustainability 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s41247-022-00104-2
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