NPTEL : NOC:Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Civil Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Dr.Arun K.Saraf


Lecture 1 - What is Geographic Information Systems ?

Lecture 2 - Different components of GIS

Lecture 3 - Different types of vector data and concept of topology

Lecture 4 - Raster data models and comparisons with vector

Lecture 5 - TIN data model and comparisons with raster

Lecture 6 - Non-spatial data (attributes) and their type

Lecture 7 - Raster data compression techniques

Lecture 8 - Spatial database systems and their types

Lecture 9 - Pre-processing of spatial datasets

Lecture 10 - Geo-referencing

Lecture 11 - Different map projections

Lecture 12 - Spatial interpolation techniques

Lecture 13 - Digital Elevation Models and different types of resolutions

Lecture 14 - Quality assessment of freely available DEMS

Lecture 15 - GIS analysis - Part 1

Lecture 16 - GIS analysis - Part 2 (Overlaying Operations)

Lecture 17 - GIS analysis - Part 3 (Buffer Analysis)

Lecture 18 - Classification Methods

Lecture 19 - Errors in GIS and Key elements of maps

Lecture 20 - Limitations of GIS