Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Prof. Arun K. Saraf, IIT Roorkee) | Architectural and Civil Engineering

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. Instructor: Prof. Arun K. Saraf, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee. The proposed course provides basic understanding about GIS Technology. Presently, GIS is being used extensively in various domains including in civil engineering, water resources, earth sciences, transportation engineering, navigation etc. Google Earth and Google Map are very popular custom designed user friendly GIS products which are widely used for various purposes including in navigation etc. (from nptel.ac.in)

What is Geographic Information Systems?

Lecture 01 - What is Geographic Information Systems?

Lecture 02 - Different Components of GIS

Lecture 03 - Different Types of Vector Data and Concept of Topology

Lecture 04 - Raster Data Models and Comparisons with Vector

Lecture 05 - TIN Data Model and Comparisons with Raster

Lecture 06 - Non-spatial Data (Attributes) and their Types

Lecture 07 - Raster Data Comparison Techniques

Lecture 08 - Spatial Database Systems and their Types

Lecture 09 - Pre-processing of Spatial Datasets

Lecture 10 - Geo-referencing

Lecture 11 - Different Map Projections

Lecture 12 - Spatial Interpolation Techniques

Lecture 13 - Digital Elevation Models and Different Types of Resolutions

Lecture 14 - Quality Assessment of Freely Available DEMS

Lecture 15 - GIS Analysis

Lecture 16 - GIS Analysis: Overlaying Operations

Lecture 17 - GIS Analysis: Buffer Analysis

Lecture 18 - Classification Methods

Lecture 19 - Errors in GIS and Key Elements of Maps

Lecture 20 - Limitations of GIS

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Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Instructor: Prof. Arun K. Saraf, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee. The proposed course provides basic understanding about GIS Technology.