IJARCCE International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering Impact Factor 7.39Vol. 11, Issue 3, March 2022 DOI: 10.17148/IJARCCE.2022.11336 © IJARCCE This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License 196 ISSN (O) 2278-1021, ISSN (P) 2319-5940 Carbon loss estimation: a case study of Little Andaman development plan Sujit Raha 1 , Avijit Chakraborty 2 , Purbita Chatterjee 3 ,Tanmoy Chakraborty 4 , Sayan Mondal 5 1 Computer Science and Engineering, Techno Engineering College Banipur , W. B., India 2 Computer Science and Engineering, Techno Engineering College Banipur , W. B., India 3 Computer Science and Engineering, Techno College of Engineering Agartala, Tripura, India 4 Computer Science and Engineering, Techno Main Salt Lake, Kolkata, W. B., India 5 Computer Science and Engineering, Techno Engineering College Banipur , W. B., India Abstract: In ‘Sustainable Development of Little Andaman - Vision Document’ NITI Aayog proposed a development plan for Little Andaman of Andaman and Nicobar Island group to build a greenfield coastal megacity as a free trade zone to compete with Hong Kong and Singapore. The plan needs 240 sq km from the east and west coast of the island that is 30% of the total area out of 680 sq km of the island comprises of 95% forest area most of that is evergreen forest [1][2]. Due to the closeness of the island to the Malacca Strait, an important world shipping route, also having 53683.10 Sq km Exclusive Economic Zone ( EEZ ) and potentiality for medical and natural tourism the vision is very much significant for blue wealth of the nation [3]. Among the different environmental impact one of them will be carbon stock losses as more than 2 million trees will be uprooted from the pristine forest. This study aims to forecast the carbon stock losses that will be helpful for environment impact assessment, NITIAayog yet not published. For the study area land use and land cover (LU/LC) data set was created from Bhuvan thematic satellite data. LU/LC multi-temporal satellite data from Resourcesat-2, LISS-III sensor of 2015-16 with a scale of 1:50,000 have been used in this study. Another data set for carbon stock of four forest type groups viz. Tropical Wet Evergreen, Tropical Semi Evergreen, Tropical Moist Deciduous and Littoral & Swamp forests in Andaman and Nicobar Island was prepared from India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2019. From this two data set total carbon stock loss for the study area was calculated. QGIS a open source s/w was used for various data operations. Keywords: Carbon Stock, Little Andaman, Land use and Land Cover, Bhuvan -Indian Geo-platform 1. INTRODUCTION Carbon is found on earth in various forms within living organisms and in non-living things like- oil, natural gas, coal, rocks and air. Different terrestrial systems store carbon in rocks, sediments, swamps, wetlands, forest, forest soil, grassland and agriculture etc. Two third of the terrestrial carbon are found in forest and forest soil [1]. Carbon play an important role in climate change [2]. Green house effect that is occurred due to increasing CO2, one of the most harmful greenhouse gases (GHG)[2] and created for different anthropogenic activities, is the most significant reason for climate change[3]. The rapid climate changes is attributed to two human actions- burning fossil fuels and clearing or degrading natural ecosystems [4][5]. More than 7 trillion tons of carbon dioxide stored in forest and other terrestrial ecosystems. Growing trees and forest sequestered carbon from the atmosphere and act as a largest carbon sink [6]. The main carbon pools in the forest are above ground living biomass(AGB), below ground biomass(BGB), under story vegetation, dead mass of litter, woody debris and soil organic matter(SOC)[7][8][9].Forest Survey of India(FSI) under Ministry of Environment and Forests release periodically forest carbon stock of country in the India State of Forest Report[10]. However, due to unscientific management or deforestation this forest can be act as a carbon sources [11]. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union Territory, of India is a chain of 556 Islands are the most isolated parts of Indian Union situated in the South-Eastern part of Bay of Bengal and lying between 6 o and 14 o N latitude and 92 0 and 94 0 E longitude. The average distance is about 1200 km from main land mass. The area break-up of the Islands is as under total geographical area 829,300 ha, forest area 746,400 ha Effective forest are is 642,000 ha. (Excluding tidal swamps, steep hills and mangrove belts). Little Andaman island is situated at the southern extreme of Andaman District.The geographical area of the Island is 734.39 Sq km. About 90% of the geographical area of this Island is