Environmental Impact Assessment and Remote Sensing

• Objectives and principles of EIA
• Concept of Sustainable development
• Relationship of EIA to sustainable development
• EIA Notification 2006 and 2020
• Concept of Environmental Social Governance (ESG)

• Procedure of EIA: screening, scoping, description of the project, collection of baseline, information, impact identification, prediction and evaluation, and post-project monitoring.
• Methods used in EIA:- Checklists, Matrices, Networks, Adhoc, Overlays, BEES (Battelle Environmental Evaluation System)
• Environment Management Plan.

UNIT III:                                      (14 hours)

Prediction and assessment of impacts on

• Air environment
• Water environment
• Noise environment
• Biological environment
• Socio-economic environment

• Basics of Environmental Modeling
  
  • Role of Modeling in Environmental Science
  • Model Classification- Deterministic Models, Stochastic Models, Dynamic Models, Steady State Models

Methods and procedures of EIA report (EIS) preparation

• • Planning Phase
  • Detailed planning phase
  • Writing phase
• Environmental Auditing: Definition, functions, benefits and costs
• Auditing stages (process)
• EIA of Energy Projects (Thermal power plants, Nuclear power plants and Hydroelectric projects)
• Mining Projects
• Cement Industry
• Concept of CDM

• Concept of Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR): EMR properties, EMR wavelength regions and their applications
• EMR-Atmospheric Interactions: Scattering, absorption, transmission, atmospheric windows
• EMR-Earth Interactions: Concept of Spectral Signature and Spectral Reflectance Curves
• Types of Remote Sensing: Passive, Active, Thermal and Microwave
• Sensors and Orbits: Types and characteristics of Sensors, types of sensor resolutions, types of satellite orbits
• Application of remote sensing in EIA:
  • Urban/rural area planning and land use
  • Soil, water and air quality monitoring
  • Geology and geomorphology
  • Forestry and ecology