B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering · Semester 8 — Electives

Remote Sensing and GIS Applications

SWCE8.13 Soil & Water Conservation Engineering

Syllabus lecture plan

1. 01Basic component of remote sensing (RS), advantages and limitations of RS
2. 02Possible use of RS techniques in assessment and monitoring of land and 1 water resources
3. 03Electromagnetic spectrum, energy interactions in the atmosphere and with 2 the Earth's surface
4. 04Major atmospheric windows, principal applications of different wavelength regions, typical spectral reflectance curve for vegetation, soil and water
5. 05Different types of sensors and platforms, contrast ratio and possible causes 2 of low contrast
6. 07Air-photo interpretation- interpretation elements
7. 08Photogrammetry- measurements on a single vertical aerial photograph, measurements on a stereo-pair- vertical measurement by the parallax 2 method; Ground control for aerial photography
8. 09Satellite remote sensing, multispectral scanner whiskbroom and push-broom 2 scanner
9. 10Different types of resolutions
10. 11Analysis of digital data- image restoration; image enhancement
11. 12Information extraction, image classification, unsupervised classification, supervised classification, important consideration in the identification of 2 training areas
12. 13Vegetation indices
13. 14Microwave remote sensing
14. 15GIS and basic components
15. 16Different sources of spatial data, basic spatial entities, major components of 2 spatial data
16. 17Basic classes of map projections and their properties
17. 18Methods of data input into GIS, data editing
18. 19Spatial data models and structures, attribute data management, integrating 1 data (map overlay) in GIS
19. 20Application of remote sensing and GIS for the management of land and 1 water resources

Part of the B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering curriculum (ICAR recommendations). Upload or find notes, previous-year papers and quick-revision reels for each lecture on theciae.