Tuesday, August 30, 2011

GI Syllabus

Geoinformatics Engineering (4-1-1)

Section I: Geographical Information Systems
Components of GIS, Data acquisition, spatial and attribute data, pre-processing, storage and management; Data structures- raster and vector data; GIS analysis functions; Errors and corrections; Data presentation and generation of thematic maps; Applications.

Section II: Remote Sensing
Introduction to Remote sensing system, data acquisition, processing and applications; Physical basis of remote sensing, Electro-magnetic radiation (EMR) and its Interaction in atmosphere, its effects in various wavelength regions, atmospheric windows; Interaction at ground surface- soils and rocks, vegetation, water, etc. Platform and sensors- Terrestrial, aerial and space platforms; Orbital characteristics of space platforms, sun- and geo-synchronous; Sensor systems radiometers, optomechanical and push broom sensor; Resolution- spectral, spatial, radiometric and temporal; Data products from various air and spaceborne sensors- aerial photographs, LiDAR, Landsat, SPOT, IRS, ERS, IKONOS, etc. Image interpretation- Elements of interpretation; Manual and digital interpretation; Field verification.

Section III: Photogrammetry
Photogrammetric terms; Applications; Type of photographs; Perspective geometry of near vertical and tilted photographs, height and tilt distortions

Books and References:

  1. P.A. Burrough: Principles of Geographical Information Systems for Land Resources Assessment, Oxford Science Publications, 1986.
  2. P.A. Longley et.al.,: Geographical Information Systems (Vol.I and Vol.II), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.
  3. Tomlinson, R.F., (2005) Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers. ESRI Press. 328 pp.
  4. Lillesand, T.M.; R.W. Kiefer, and J.W. Chipman (2003). Remote sensing and image interpretation, 5th ed., Wiley. ISBN 0-471-15227-7. 
  5. Richards, J.A.; and X. Jia (2006). Remote sensing digital image analysis: an introduction, 4th ed., Springer. ISBN 3-540-25128-6. 
  6. Sabins Floyd F Remote Sensing: Principles and Interpretation New York: WH Freeman and Company
  7. John A. Richards and Xiuping Jia, (2006), Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis: An Introduction, Springer (ISBN-10 3-540-25128-6)
  8. Elements of Photogrammetry with Applications in GIS by Paul Wolf and Bon DeWitt (2000) McGraw Hill (ISBN 0-07-292454-3)
  9. Digital Photogrammetry: A Practical course by Wilfried Linder (2009) Springer  (ISBN 978-3-540-92724-2)
  10. Edward M. Mikhail, James S. Bethel, J. Chris McGlone, (2001), Introduction to Modern Photogrammetry, John Wiley & Sons (ISBN 0-471-30924-9)
  11. Kraus and Karl  (2004), Photogrammetry: Geometry from Images and Laser Scans (de Gruyter Textbook), Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. (ISBN 978-3-11-019007-6)
Those books in italics are prescribed text books.
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