Remote Sensing Concepts detailed syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Civil students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Civil Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Civil 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to Civil Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of remote sensing concepts is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
REMOTE SENSING AND ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION 9 Definition – components of RS – History of Remote Sensing – Merits and demerits of data collation between conventional and remote sensing methods – Electromagnetic Spectrum -Radiation principles – Wave theory, Plancks law, Wiens Displacement Law, Stefans Boltzmann law, Kirchoffs law – Radiation sources: active & passive – Radiation Quantities
Unit II
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Unit III
ORBITS AND PLATFORMS 9 Motions of planets and satellites – Newtons law of gravitation – Gravitational field and potential -Escape velocity – Keplers law of planetary motion – Orbit elements and types – Orbital perturbations and maneuvers – Types of remote sensing platforms – Ground based, Airborne platforms and Space borne platforms – Classification of satellites – Sun synchronous and Geosynchronous satellites -Lagrange Orbit.
Unit IV
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Unit V
DATA PRODUCTS AND INTERPRETATION 9 Photographic and digital products – Types, levels and open source satellite data products -selection and procurement of data- Visual interpretation: basic elements and interpretation keys -Digital interpretation – Concepts of Image rectification, Image enhancement and Image classification
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Thomas M.Lillesand, Ralph W. Kiefer and Jonathan W. Chipman, Remote Sensing and Image interpretation, John Wiley and Sons, Inc, New York,2015.
- George Joseph and C Jeganathan, Fundamentals of Remote Sensing,Third Edition Universities Press (India) Private limited, Hyderabad, 2018
Reference Books:
- Janza, F.Z., Blue H.M. and Johnson,J.E. Manual of Remote Sensing. Vol.1, AmericanSociety of Photogrametry, Virginia, USA, 2002.
- Verbyla, David, Satellite Remote Sensing of Natural Resources. CRC Press, 1995
- Paul Curran P.J. Principles of Remote Sensing. Longman, RLBS, 1988.
- Introduction to Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing , Charles Elachi and JacobVan Zyl, 2006 Edition II, Wiley Publication.
- Basudeb Bhatta, Remote Sensing and GIS, Oxford University Press, 2011
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