Ramesh Silwal, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, India; International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Geospatial Solutions, Kathmandu, Nepal, Arijit Roy, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Disaster Management studies, Dehradun, India, Harish Karnatak, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Geoweb Services, IT and Distance Learning Department (GIT&DL), Dehradun, India, Subrata Nandy, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Goernment of India, Forestry and Ecology, Dehradun, India and Rajesh Bahadur Thapa, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Geospatial Solutions, Kathmandu, Nepal