Syllabus Format (ERP)
1 Name of the subject Remote Sensing & GIS Lab
2 L-T-P 0-0-3
3 Credits 2
4 Name of the Department Architecture and Regional Planning
5 Status of the (a) Specify the Session, Semester: Autumn / Spring
subject (b) Please specify the level of the subject: 1st / 2nd Year, PG
(c) Whether the subject will be offered as core Core / Elective
or elective:
(d) The semester in which the subject will be Autumn / Spring
offered:
(e) Name of the program in whose curricula MCP
this subject will be included:
6 Prerequisites for the
subject, if any
7 Course Objectives This course addresses the pedagogical and scientific
requirements for remote sensing-based Earth observation data
gathering and processing.
This lab is dedicated to teaching students how to utilise
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for spatial analytical
purposes, including creating the necessary spatio-temporal
databases, themed maps, simulations, and fusions.
8 Course Contents Urban change analysis through land use change detection
Integrating geospatial analysis and remote sensing into
environmental monitoring and resource assessment
The use of high-resolution, time-lapse, and multispectral satellite
imagery, as well as supervised and unsupervised classification
techniques, for monitoring the state of, and changes to, natural
resources and land use mapping.
Construction of a digital relief model and an ortophoto for use in
environmental simulations (raster-GIS analysis, spatial-temporal
analysis, geostatistics)
The integration of remote sensing (RS) products into geographic
information systems
Familiarisation with QGIS software
Raster Data Processing
• Analysis of spectral reflectance curves
• Visual interpretation of satellite images
• Interpretation of different resolution satellite images
• Interpretation of cultural details from satellite images
• Georeferencing
• Base map preparation
• Image enhancements – spectral, radiometric and spatial
• Geometric correction and mosaicing of image
• Low pass filters, High pass filters, band ratioing, Principal
Component analysis
• Georeferencing and geometric correction
• Unsupervised classification
• Supervised classification
• Classification accuracy: error matrix, errors of
commission and omissions, kappa statistics
• Use of model maker for band rationing
• Calculation of at satellite radiance and true surface
radiance from thermal imagery
• Computation of brightness temperature from thermal
imagery
• Calculation of emissivity fractional vegetation cover
• Calculation of land surface temperature
Vector Data Processing
• Digitization and layer creation
• Data input, data editing and topology creation
• Editing the layers (use of snap tolerance, remove over
lap, gaps etc.)
• Non spatial data entry
• Linking spatial and non spatial data
• Create new table, add field to table, add record to table,
calculate area and perimeter
• Buffer analysis and Query (Selection by location and
selection by attributes)
• Overlay analysis
• Network analysis – Finding the shortest route between
two places, finding the optimum path etc.
9 Names of the faculty members of Saikat Kumar Paul
the Department who have the Debapratim Pandit
Necessary expertise and will be
the willing to teach the subject
10 Do the contents of the subject No
have an overlap with any other
subject offered in the Institute?
11 Recommended text books and Text Books:
reference books • Exploring the urban community : a GIS approach
by Richard P. Greene; James B. Pick
• Remotely sensed cities, Mesev, Victor. London ;
New York : Taylor & Francis, 2003
• Spatial Databases- With Application to GIS.,
Philippe Rigaux, Michel Scholl & Agnes, Voisard.,
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2002
Reference Weblinks:
http://urbangis.com/
12 Names of Departments/ Architecture & Regional Planning
Centers /Schools whose students
are expected to register for this
subject
13 Course Contents Topics Number of
& Hourly break- hours
up Raster Data Processing 20 hrs.
Vector Data Processing 20 hrs.
Urban change analysis through 8 hrs.
land use change detection
