JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Pre-Requisites

NIL

Course Objectives

To introduce with basic concept of with remote sensing process, Geographical

Information System and applications in mining, and modern trends of GIS in various natural resources and engineering applications.

Course Outcomes

In the present scenario, remote sensing and GIS application in mining plays

important role. Details of the course enable the student to understand basic concept of remote sensing and its process to acquire data, digital Image processing system, and various application in mining.

UNIT - I

Remote Sensing Process: Introduction to Remote Sensing, data acquisition and processing, sensor systems, applications, Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) and its characteristics, Radiation principles, Planck’s Law, Stefan’s law, properties of solar radiant energy, atmospheric windows.

UNIT - II

Physical Basis of Remote Sensing: Interaction in the atmosphere, nature of atmospheric inter action, atmospheric effects of visible, near infrared thermal microwave wavelengths, interaction at ground surface and, interaction with soils and rocks, effects of soil moisture, organic matter, particles, size and texture, interaction with vegetation, spectral characteristics of individual leaf, vegetation canopies, effect of leaf pigments, cell structure, radiation geometry.

UNIT - III

Platform and Sensors: Multi concept in remote sensing, general requirements of a platform, balloon aircraft, satellite platforms sun synchronous orbits, sensors for visible near infrared wavelengths, profilers, images, scanners, radiometers, optical mechanical and pus h button scanners, spectral, spatial, radiometric and temporal resolution, IFOV, FOV, geometri c characteristics of scanners, V/H ratio, comparison of satellite/ aerial platforms and sensors and remote sensing data products, land sat and TM, SPOT, IRS, ERS; applications in mining.

UNIT - IV

Visual & Digital Image Processing: Remote Sensing Data Products, Elements of visual Image Interpretations, Generation of Thematic Maps, Digital Image Processing System, Image Enhancement, Image Transformation, Image Classification.

UNIT - V

Geographical Information System: Difference between image processing system geographical system (GIS), utility of GIS, various GIS packages and their salient features, essential components of a GIS, scanners and digitizers, raster and vector data, storage, hierarchical data, network systems, relational database, data management, conventional database management systems, spatial database management, data manipulation and analysis, reclassification and aggregation, geometric and spatial operation on data management and statistical modeling, Applications and Modern Trends of GIS in various natural resources and mining applications.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. B. Bhatta - Remote Sensing and GIS.
• 2. T.M. Lillensand and R.W. Keifer - Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation.

REFERENCE BOOK:

• 1. P.J. Curren- Principles of Remote Sensing R. C. Gonzalez, R. E. Woods, Digital Image Processing.