Airborne Laser Terrain Mapping for B.Tech 6th sem is covered here. This gives the details about credits, number of hours and other details along with reference books for the course.
The detailed syllabus for Airborne Laser Terrain Mapping B.Tech (R13) sixthsem is as follows
OBJECTIVES:
To introduce the concepts of Space Borne, Air Borne, Terrestrial and Bathymetric LASER Scanners for Topographic and Bathymetric Mapping
UNIT I : SPACE BORNE RADAR AND LIDAR ALTIMETER [9 hours]
Principle and Properties of LASER- Range Finder, DIAL and Doppler LiDAR – Platforms: Terrestrial, Airborne and Space borne LiDAR – Space Borne LiDAR Missions – Space Borne Radar Altimeter for mapping Sea Surface Topography – Space Borne Laser Altimeter and Applications
UNIT II : AIRBORNE LASER SCANNERS [9 hours]
Airborne Topographic Laser Scanner – Ranging Principle – Pulse Laser and Continuous Wave Laser – First Return and Last Return – Ellipsoidal and Geoidal Height – Typical parameters of a Airborne Laser Scanner (ALS) – Specifications of Commercial ALS – Various Application Domains of ALS – Merits of ALS in comparison to Levelling, GPS leveling, Photogrammetry and Interferrometry – Components of ALS – GPS, IMU, LASER Scanner, Imaging Device, Hardware and Software
UNIT III : DATA ACQUISITION AND PRE PROCESSING [9 hours]
Various Scanning Mechanism – Synchronization of GPS, IMU and ALS Data – Reflectivity of terrain objects – Laser Classification – Class I to Class IV Laser – Eye Safety – Flight Planning– Determination of various data acquisition parameters – Swath Width, Point Density, No. of Strips, Area Covered, Point Spacing – Data Processing – Determination of flight trajectory – LIDAR data formats.
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES: At the end of the course the student will be able to understand
- Concepts of ALTM and working principle
- Available types of ATLM sensors and components of ALTM system
- Process of data acquisition, data processing and possible applications
- The fundamentals of terrestrial and bathymetric scanners and their applications
TEXTBOOKS:
- Jie Shan and Charles K. Toth, Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning – Principles and Processing, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
- George Vosselman, Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Taylor & Francis, 2010.
REFERENCES:
- Zhilin Li, Qing Zhu, Chris Gold, Digital terrain modeling: principles and methodology, CRC Press, 2005
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Special Issue on Airborne Laser Scanning and Mapping, Volume 54, Issue 2-3, July 1999
- Roger Read and Ron Graham, Manual of Aerial Survey: Primary Data Acquisition, Whittles Publishing, 2002.
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