Syllabus
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Course Code: GT-804 Course Name: GIS Technology |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Introduction: definition, basic concepts, historical background and future scopes of GIS technology. Components of GIS: hardware, software and their specifications for GIS. | |
| 2 | GIS data types and models: spatial, non spatial, raster, vector, their advantage and disadvantages; spatial data capture and maintenance. Integration of raster-vector data models and integration of remote sensing with GIS, concepts of thematic layers and topology. | |
| 3 | GIS analysis operations: overview, geometrics and measurement operations, spatial and non-spatial queries; neighborhood operations, spatial arrangement and connectivity functions. Overlays operation, display and interfaces functions, precision and accuracy, errors in GIS, their detection and optimization. |
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| 4 | Triangulated irregular network (TIN), Digital elevation model (DEM) and their applications. Map production in GIS, concept of Global positioning system (GPS) and GIS as multidisciplinary tools and their applications in geoscience. | |
