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This document provides an overview of the Remote Sensing and GIS elective course for the 6th semester. The course objective is to equip students with knowledge and skills in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing. The course is divided into 8 chapters covering topics such as remote sensing principles, data collection, image processing, classification techniques, and applications of RS and GIS. Students will be evaluated through class marks. Reference materials include textbooks, reference books, e-books, and MOOCs.

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RS Syllabus

This document provides an overview of the Remote Sensing and GIS elective course for the 6th semester. The course objective is to equip students with knowledge and skills in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing. The course is divided into 8 chapters covering topics such as remote sensing principles, data collection, image processing, classification techniques, and applications of RS and GIS. Students will be evaluated through class marks. Reference materials include textbooks, reference books, e-books, and MOOCs.

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Course Title/ Code : Remote Sensing and GIS (Elective-1)

Semester : 6th Semester

Name of the faculty : Dr. Mrinal Kumar Dutta


E-mail id : [email protected], [email protected]

1. Course Objective: To provide an intensive educational opportunity, designed to equip


students with the knowledge base and technical skills of Geographical Information System and
Remote Sensing (GIS/RS) required to fulfil a professional role in the different related fields of
Civil Engineering and Industry

iii) Topic/Unit/Chapter Layout

Chapter Contents Class Marks


1 What is Remote Sensing? Historical development of 2
remote sensing, Remote sensing components ; Basic
Principles of Optical Remote Sensing : Data collection
and transmission, Sensors and satellite imageries

2 Energy sources and radiation principles, Electromagnetic 4


energy and spectrum, Wavebands, Interactions of
electromagnetic energy with atmosphere and earth’s
surface, geometric and radiometric qualities of images

3 Hyperspectral remote sensing: causes of absorption 5


feature in the spectra, hyperspectral image and spectral
measurement techniques
Thermal Remote Sensing: introduction to thermal remote
sensing, available spaceborne thermal sensors,
LiDAR: Physics and spectral characteristics of laser and
its interaction with objects; components of a LiDAR
system, LiDAR applications

4 Microwave Remote Sensing: Basic principles, spatial 4


resolution of SAR system, geometric characteristics, and
signature of earth features.

5 Data Products, Satellite data, Data formats, Data 8


acquisition for natural resources management; Digital
processing of satellite images: Geometric rectification,
spatial and radiometric enhancement, edge detection, band
ratio, false color composites, Principal component
analysis, colour space transformation

6 Visual interpretation of Earth features from aerial 4


photographs and satellite imageries, Supervised and
unsupervised classification for thematic map generation,
Digital classification using expert systems, Application of
fuzzy set theory in classification.

7 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 10


What is GIS? Geographic concepts for GIS. Spatial
relationships, topology, spatial patterns, spatial
interpolation. Data storage, data structure, non-spatial
database models. Populating GIS, digitizing data
exchange, data conversion. Spatial data models, Raster
and Vector data structures and algorithms. Digital
Elevation Models (DEM) and their application.
Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) model. GIS
application areas, Spatial analysis, quantifying
relationships, spatial statistics, and spatial search.
Decision making in GIS context.
Global Positioning Systems; Surveying with GPS; GIS
and GPS integration.

8 Applications of RS/GIS in Water resources; Land use ; 4


Flood mapping and erosion; Route location; Hydro-
electric power project.

iv) Study Materials

a) Text Book
T.M. Lillesand and R.W. Kiefer, Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation, John
Wiley & Sons, New York, 1994.
R.P. Gupta, Remote Sensing Geology, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1991

Georgr Joseph, Fundamentals of Remote Sensing, Universities Press, Delhi, 2005

b) Reference Book
J.B. Campbell, Introduction to Remote Sensing, Taylor & Francis, London, 1996.

F.F. Sabins, Remote Sensing : Principles and Interpretation, W.H. Freeman and
Company, New York, 1997.

John R.Jensen, Remote Sensing of the Environment, Pearson Education , Delhi, 2003

c) E-Books

d) Moocs
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ce15

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