Estb. 1882

University of the Punjab

INTRODUCTION TO GIS AND RS

Objective:
To acquaint students with the modern tools of GIS and RS for forest management.
Theory
1. Aerial Photos. Sensors, Cameras, films and filters.
2. Types of photos scale of photos. Season of photography.
3. Aerial photo interpretation techniques
4. Photo-grammetry, measurement of scale, distance, heights and slope.
5. Satellite based Remote Sensing. Sensors platforms.
6. Introduction to energy sources and radiation principles.
7. Thermal Infrared and microware Remote Sensing.
8. Introduction to GIS
9. Spatial data
10. Georeferencing and digitizing
11. Global Positioning System (GPS)
Practical
1. Introduction to RS and GIS software
2. Georeferencing, digitizing and map making.
Credit hours/ Marks:- 3 (2-1)

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