Subject Code: CE6L515 Name: GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Civil Engineering L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3

Pre-requisites: None
Remote sensing; Energy source; Spectral signatures; Remote sensing satellites and sensors; Radar image interpretation; Digital image processing; Image classification; Principal component transformation; Applications in watershed management, flood management, groundwater quality, reservoir sedimentation, irrigation management. Geographic information systems (GIS); Raster and vector data; GIS for Surface-Water Hydrology; Digital elevation models; Hydrographic vector data; Arc-hydro model; GIS for groundwater modeling; GIS for flood plain management; HEC-RAS and HEC-GeoRAS; Case studies.
Books:

  • Lillesand, T., Kiefer, R. W., and Chipman, J., Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation, Seventh Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2015.
  • Burrough, P. A., and McDonnell, R. A., Principles of Geographical Information Systems, Second Edition,Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998.
  • Richards, J. A., Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis: An Introduction, Fifth Edition, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.
  • Johnson, L. E., Geographic Information Systems in Water Resources Engineering, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2008.