REMOTE SENSING AND GIS

Paper Code: 
ENV 423
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
17.00
Unit I: 
PRINCIPLES OF SATELLITE BASED REMOTE SENSING

   

  • Fundamental principles of remote sensing-electromagnetic radiation
  • EM spectrum
  • Development of remote sensing
  • Interaction with earth materials
  • Interaction with Atmospheric windows
  • Sensors, Resolution
  • Microwave sensors
  • Thermal Remote Sensing
  • Landsat, SPOT, Sea-Sat, ERS, IRS
  • Meteorological  satellites

 

13.00
Unit II: 
BASICS OF AERIAL PHOTOINTERPRETATION

                               

  • Development of aerial photography
  • Fundamental principles of aerial photography
  • Types of aerial photographs, types of films
  • Factors affecting photo-images
  • Basic principles of Stereoscope
  • Scale of aerial photographs
  • Digital Image Processing, Image enhancement classification

 

15.00
Unit III: 
INTERPRETATION OF DATA PRODUCTS

                                          

  • Data products- Photographic and digital data
  • False colour composites
  • Elements of interpretation of satellite imagery
  • Spectral signatures
  • Ground truth
  • Visual analysis of remotely sensed data

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING, GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) AND GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS)

                                                                          

  • Introduction to GIS- Functional elements (components) of GIS,Spatial and Non-spatial data
  • Introduction to GPS (NAVSTAR and GAGAN)
  • GPS segments
  • Errors in GPS

 

18.00
Unit V: 
APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING, GIS and GPS

                 

·       Surface water pollution monitoring

·       Location of ground water rich zones

·       Forest management

·       Study of animal behavior and population

·       Watershed management

·       Preparation of land use/land cover maps

Disaster management

Essential Readings: 
  • M. Anji Reddy: Textbook of remote sensing and GIS, Hyderabad: B.S. Publications
  • Study Material (Handbooks) of Sikkim Manipal University for Science Health and Technology for the Degree of Post Graduation in Ecotourism.
  • A.N. Patel and Surendra Singh. Remote Sensing : Principles and ApplicationsJodhpur, Scientific, 2004
  • S M Rashid B S Sokhi. Remote Sensing Of Urban Environment(1999) Manak Publications

 

Academic Year: 
2014-2015
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