M.Tech / ICAR-NET · Irrigation & Drainage Engineering
Remote Sensing and GIS for Land and Water Resource Management
Syllabus topic plan
- 01Physics of remote sensing; electromagnetic radiation and its interactions
- 02Remote sensing platforms: LANDSAT, SPOT, ERS, IKONOS; Indian Space Programme
- 03Satellite data analysis and visual interpretation
- 04Digital image processing: preprocessing, enhancement, classification, data merging
- 05Basic components of GIS; map projections and coordinate systems
- 06Spatial data structures: raster and vector; topology and geodatabase models
- 07Data quality, sources of error and metadata
- 08Thematic mapping and measurements in GIS
- 09Query analysis, reclassification, buffering and neighbourhood functions
- 10Map overlay, interpolation and network analysis
- 11Digital elevation modelling and the Analytical Hierarchy Process
- 12Object-oriented and web-based GIS
- 13Rainfall-runoff, groundwater and water-quality modelling
- 14Flood inundation mapping, drought monitoring and site selection for recharge
Part of the M.Tech / ICAR-NET curriculum (ICAR recommendations). Upload or find notes, previous-year papers and quick-revision reels for each topic on theciae.