NPTEL - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems offered by IIT Roorkee
5.0 /5- Public/Government Institute
- Estd. 1847
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems at IIT Roorkee Overview
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹1,000 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems at IIT Roorkee Highlights
- Earn a E-certificate of completion from IIT Roorkee
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems at IIT Roorkee Course details
- For Under graduate engineering and post graduate science students
- The proposed course provides basic understanding about GIS Technology
- Presently, GIS is being used extensively in various domains including in civil engineering, water resources, earth sciences, transportation engineering, navigation etc
- Google Earth and Google Map are very popular custom designed user friendly GIS products which are widely used for various purposes including in navigation etc
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems at IIT Roorkee Curriculum
Week-1
What is Geographic Information Systems?
Different components of GIS
Different types of vector data
Raster data models and their types
TIN data model
Week-2
Advantages and disadvantages associated with vector, raster and TIN
Non-spatial data (attributes) and their type
Raster data compression techniques
Different raster data file formats
Spatial database systems and their types
Week-3
Pre-processing of spatial datasets
Different map projections
Spatial interpolation techniques
Different types of resolutions
Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
Week-4
Quality assessment of freely available DEMS
GIS analysis-1
GIS analysis-2 and applications
Errors in GIS
Key elements of maps
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems at IIT Roorkee Faculty details
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems at IIT Roorkee Entry Requirements
- Prerequisite: Current students of engineering students and current post graduate science students
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