JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives

This course will focus on introducing students to the use of Geographic

Information Systems in the urban environment for transportation engineering. Students successfully completing this course should be able to:

• 1. Understand the purposes of GIS and the kinds of problems to which GIS is applied.
• 2. Understand the fundamental types of GIS data, including raster and vector data.
• 3. Be able to explain and perform spatial data retrieval tasks.
• 4. Use GIS operators to perform a number of kinds of analysis.
• 5. Be prepared to use GIS to support personal and professional decision making.
• 6. Be aware of Geographic Information that is available on the World Wide Web.
• 7. Understand the limitations of Geographic Information systems and of geographic data in general. Course outcomes: At the end of the course, students will be able to
• 1. Describe the Basic Principles of Remote Sensing.
• 2. Understand the concepts of Pre-Processing of Remotely Sensed Data and its applications.
• 3. Understand the data processing, Analysis and Modeling techniques.
• 4. Apply GIS for various transportation issues
• 5. Apply GIS in environment impact assessment

UNIT - I

Remote Sensing: Basic Principles – Introduction, Electromagnetic and its properties, interaction with Earth surface materials, recent developments in Remote sensing, Social and legal implications of Remote sensing, status of Remote sensing, Characteristics of Imaging remote sensing instruments, satellite remote sensing system – a brief over view, other remote sensing satellites.

UNIT - II

Pre-Processing of Remotely Sensed Data: Introduction, cosmetic operation; Geometric connection and registration, atmospheric correction. Image Transforms: Introduction, arithmetic operations, empirically based image transforms, principal component analysis, multiple discriminant analysis etc.

UNIT - III

GIS introduction data processing, Analysis and Modeling : Raster based GIS data processing – vector based GIS data processing – Queries – Spatial analysis – Descriptive statistics – Spatial autocorrelation – Quadrant counts and nearest neighbor analysis – Network analysis – surface modeling – DTM; Data Management : The data base designs and approaches, 3 classic data models, nature of geographic data, spatial data models, Databases for GIS; Definitions of GIS – Components of GIS – Geographic data presentation : maps – mapping process – Coordinate systems – Transformations- map projections – geo referencing – data acquisition.

UNIT - VI

Application of GIS in Transportation Engineering – I: Intelligent information system for road accessibility study, GIS data base design for physical facility planning, Decision support systems for land use planning.

R19 M.TECH HIGHWAY ENGG.

UNIT - V

Application of GIS in Transportation Engineering – II : GIS applications in environment impact assessment and environment monitoring, GIS based Highway alignment, GIS based road network planning, GIS based traffic congestion analysis and accident investigation, Utility management.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Lo, C.P. & Yeung A.K.W., Concepts and Techniques of Geographic Information Systems, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 2002.
• 2. Burrough, P.A., Principles of Geographical Information Systems, Oxford Publication, 1998.
• 3. Clarke, K., Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems, Prentice Hall, New Jersy, 2001.
• 4. DeMers, M.N., Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2000.
• 5. Geo Information Systems – Applications of GIS and Related Spatial Information Technologies, ASTER Publication Co., Chestern (England), 1992.
• 6. Jeffrey, S. & John E., Geographical Information System – An Introduction Prentice – Hall, 1990.
• 7. Marble, D.F., Galkhs HW & Pequest, Basic Readings in Geographic Information Systems, Sped System Ltd., New York, 1984.
• 8. GIS for Urban & Regional Planning, Scholten & Stillwen 1990, Kulwer Academie
• 9. GIS A management, Perspenfi Stan Aronoff, WDL Publisher
• 10. GIS By Stonffer R19 M.TECH HIGHWAY ENGG. M.TECH.- I YEAR- I SEMESTER HIGHWAY ENGINEERING