JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives:

• To introduce the concepts of remote sensing, satellite image characteristics and its components.
• To expose the various remote sensing platforms and sensors and to introduce the concepts of GIS, GPS and GNSS.

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course the student will be able to understand

• The characteristics of Aerial photographic images ,Remote sensing satellites and Applications of remote sensing.
• The GIS and its Data models.
• The Global Navigation Satellite System.

UNIT - I

Aerial Photographs- Basic terms & Definitions, scales, relief displacements, Flight Planning, Stereoscopy, Characteristics of photographic images, Fundamentals of aerial photo- interpretation, Introduction to Digital Photogrammetry.

UNIT - II

Remote Sensing: Physics of remote sensing, Remote sensing satellites, and their data products, Sensors and orbital characteristics, Spectral reflectance curves, resolution and multi-concept, FCC

UNIT - III

Satellite Image - Characteristics and formats, Image histogram, Introduction to Image rectification, Image Enhancement, Land use and land cover classification system, Unsupervised and Supervised Classification, Applications of remote sensing

UNIT - IV

Basic concepts of geographic data, GIS and its components, Data models, Topology, Process in GIS: Data capture, data sources, data encoding, geospatial analysis, GIS Applications

UNIT - V

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, GPS: Space segment, Control segment, User segment, GPS satellite signals, Datum, coordinate system and map projection, Static, Kinematic and Differential GPS, GPS Applications

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Remote Sensing & GIS , BS Publications
• 2. Higher Surveying by A M Chandra New Age International Publisher
• 3. Remote Sensing & GIS by B. Bhatta Oxford University Press
• 4. Introduction to GPS by A. E Rabbany Library of congress cataloging in Publication data

REFERENCES:

• 1. T M Lillesand et al: Remote Sensing & Image Interpretation
• 2. Higher Surveying by B C Punmia Ashok kr. Jain Laxmi Publications
• 3. N K Agarwal : Essentials of GPS , Spatial Networks: Hyderabad B.TECH. CIVIL ENGINEERING