Module -1
1. Remote Sensing:
Remote Sensing Basic Principles:
Introduction, Electromagnetic Remote Sensing Process, Physics of Radiant Energy: Nature of Electromagnetic Radiation, Electromagnetic Spectrum; Energy Source and its Characteristics, Atmospheric Interactions with Electromagnetic Radiation: Atmospheric properties, Absorption of Ozone, Atmospheric effects on Spectral Response Patterns; Energy interactions with Earth’s surface materials: Spectral Reflectance Curves; Cossine Law.
Remote Sensing Platforms and Sensors:
Satellite System Parameters, Sensor Parameter: Spatial Resolution, Spectral Resolution, Radiometric Resolution; Imaging Sensor Systems: Multispectral Imaging Sensor System, Thermal Sensing System, Microwave Imaging Systems; Earth Resources Satellites: Landsat Satellite Programme, SPOT Satellite, Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS); Meteorological Satellites: NOAA Satellite, GOES Satellite.
Visual Image Interpretation:
Introduction
Digital Image Processing:
Introduction, Basic Character of Digital Image, Preprocessing: Geometric Correction Methods, Radiometric Geometric Correction, Atmospheric Geometric Correction; Image Enhancement Techniques: Contrast Enhancement; Spatial Filtering Techniques: Low Pass Filters, High Pass Filters, Filtering for Edge Enhancement; Image Transformations NDVI Transformation, PCA Transformation; Image Classification: Supervised Classification, Training Dataset, Unsupervised Classification
2. Geographical Information System:
Introduction to GIS:
Introduction to GIS History of GIS, Early developments in GIS, Applications of GIS, Spatial Data Input and Editing: Primary Data, Secondary Data, and Data Editing. Introduction: Maps and Map Scale, Map Scale, Type of Maps, Map and Glob
Geo-referencing and Projection:
Understanding Earth, Coordinate System, Map Projection, Transformation, Geo-referencing
Global Positioning System (GPS):
Introduction.
Spatial Database Management Systems:
Introduction, Data Storage, Database Structure Models, Database Management system, Entity Relationship Model, Normalization.
Data Models and Data Structures:
Introduction, GIS Data Model, Vector Data Structure, Raster Data structure , Geodatabase and Metadata
Spatial Analysis:
Introduction to spatial analysis, Vector Operations and Analysis, Network Analysis, Raster Data Spatial Analysis.
Interpolation:
Introduction to Interpolation, Global Methods of Interpolation, Local Methods of Interpolation Web GIS: Introduction, Web GIS, OGC & Web Services