Remote Sensing GIS & GPS

Paper Code: 
GEO143
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
Students will able to understand the basic concept and significance of remote sensing and aerial photography from geographical point of view.
They will be able to understand GIS and use of data model like raster and vector and DEM and enhance their knowledge about uses of GPS, RS and GIS software, data input, geo-referencing and data handling.They will be able to understand the use of GIS and RS in urban planning, water resources, soil identification and agriculture.
15.00
Unit I: 
 Introduction to Remote Sensing; Fundamental principles, Electromagnetic radiation,
 EMR spectrum, EMR interaction with atmosphere and earth surface features,
 Photogrammetry; Aerial photographs: Types Characteristics; Scale and Geometry
 Aerial photographs, Relief displacement
15.00
Unit II: 
 Definition and scope of GIS; Components of GIS; development of GIS.
 Map Projection
 Implications of spherical and planar coordinate systems and their transformations in
 GIS; Geo-referencing and implications of Earth’s shape and datum in GIS;
 Data model: Raster and Vector models for geographic data representation; GIS data
 standards—concepts and components;
 Digital Elevation Model (DEM): process, derivatives and applications.
15.00
Unit III: 
 Introduction to GPS; GPS, Remote sensing and GIS integration;
 Mobile GIS and its application
 Open source Portal : Importance & Uses
 Graphic User Interface of RS Software – GIS Software
15.00
Unit IV: 
 Data Input: Spatial and Non-Spatial; Scanning, Digitizing; Data Import and Export;
 Data Registration, Georeferencing; Mosaic preparation
 Topology Building, Data Editing and Cleaning; Geo-Referencing
 Projection and Datum; Coordinate Transformation; Linking Spatial and Non-Spatial Data
 Data Base Creation; Attribute Handling
15.00
Unit V: 
 GPS and GIS in Urban planning, rural planning, water resource, environment, land use and land cover mapping.
 Remote Sensing in Agriculture – An Overview, Principles of crop identification and
 Crop inventory, Soil morphology and classification
Essential Readings: 
 Adrados, C., Girard, I., Gendner, J., &Janeau, G. (2002). Global Positioning System (GPS) location accuracy due to selective availability removal. C. R. Biologies, 325, 165-170.
 Arvanitis, L., Ramachandran, B., Brackett, D., Rasoul, H., & Du, X. (2000).
 Multiresource inventories incorporating GIS, GPS and database management systems: A conceptual model. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 28, 89-100.
 Basudeb Bhatta, Remote sensing and GIS, Oxford University Press, Nov 2011
 David L.Verbyla - Practical GIS Analysis
 Ellis, E. A., Nair, P. K. R., Linehan, P. E., Beck, H. W. & Blance, C. A. (2000). A GIS-based database management application for agroforestry planning and tree selection. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 27, 41-55.
 Lillesand, Remote Sensing And Image Interpretation, 5Th , John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
 Walsh, A. and J. C. Ollenburger, 2000: Essential Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Conceptual Approach. Prentice Hall, pp. 320. ISBN-13: 978-0130193391
Academic Year: 
2023-2024