Unit 1

Introduction, Basic concepts and principles of remote sensing; Definition components of remote sensing – energy sensor, interacting body – active and passive remote sensing – platforms – EMR interaction with earth surface material, radiance, irradiance, incident, reflected, absorbed and transmitted energy – reflectance – specular and diffused reflection surfaces – spectral signature – spectral signature curves – EMR interaction with water, soil and earth surface. Application; Meteorology, land use, networking, hydrological studies, soil studies and coastal zone analysis.

Unit 2

Photogrammetry; Aerial and Terrestrial; photo interpretation. Sensors; Radar imaging; colour scanners; thematic mapper.

Geographic information system – components of GIS – hardware, software and organisational context – data – spatial and non-spatial maps – types of maps – projection – types of projection – data input – digitiser, scanner, editing – raster and vector data structures – comparison of raster and vector data structure.

Unit 3

1. Lillesand, Kiefer and Chipman, “Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation”, Wiley student edition, 2013.
2. A. M. Chandra and S. K. Gosh, “Remote Sensing and GIS”, Alpha Science, 2006.

• Anji Reddy, “Remote sensing and Geographical systems”, BS Publications, 2012.
• L R A Narayana, “Remote Sensing and its applications”, Universities Press, 1999
• J. V. S. Murthy, “Watershed management”, New Age International, 1998.
• Wurbs, R. A., and James, W. P., “Water Resources Engineering”. PHI Learning, 2009.
• M G Srinivas (Edited by), “Remote sensing applications”, Narosa Publishing House, 2001.
• Burrough P A., “Principles of GIS for land resource assessment”, Clarendon Press, 1994.
• Michael N. Demers, “Fundamentals of geographic information system”, Wiley student edition, 2012.