The crisis with conventional fossil based energy system has compelled the global community to urgently search for
renewable energy resources. Remote sensing and GIS could play a significant role in assessing the status of renewable
energy resources of a region and also for planning costeffective exploitation of such resources. Assessments of
hydro, wind, solar, geothermal and biomass resources using such tools have been reported in literatures [1e5]. Wider
application of geo-spatial technique is particularly common in biomass energy studies. Assessments of forest biomass [6],
agricultural biomass [7], energy plant for biodiesel