Remote Sensing detailed syllabus for Geoinformatics Engineering (Geo) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the Geo 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 Geoinformatics Engineering 3rd Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Geo 3rd Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of remote sensing 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, Kirchhoffs 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, Air borne 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. Kieferand 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:
- Stanley A Morain; Amelia M Budge; Michael S Renslow. Manual of Remote Sensing. Vol. I, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Virginia, USA,2019, 4th edition
- Verbyla, David, Satellite Remote Sensing of Natural Resources. CRC Press,2022 first edition.
- Paul Curran P. J. Principles of Remote Sensing Longman, RLBS, 1996.
- Introduction to Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing, Charles Elachi and Jacob Van Zyl, 2021 Edition3, Wiley Publication.
- Basudeb Bhatta, Remote Sensing and GIS, Oxford University Press, 2020 third edition.
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Geoinformatics Engineering, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit Geo 3rd Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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