Vegetation mapping is a primary requirement for various management and planning activities at the
regional and global level (Singh et al., 2002). Furthermore, mapping the distributions of vegetation types and
human land uses provides critical information for managing landscapes to sustain their biodiversity and the
structure and function of their ecosystems (Tiwari and Singh, 1984; Tiwari, 1994).
In the light of abovementioned facts present proposed work aims to investigate the forest/vegetation
types/land cover mapping of FRI campus using IKONOS (2001) data. It consists of two main procedures i.e.