Cartography and GIS Laboratory 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 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Geo 4th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of cartography and gis laboratory is as follows.
Course Objectives:
- Hands on experience of basics of cartography and GIS.
- Designing the map
- Development of GIS database and populating attribute data
Excercises:
- Simple conical,cylindrical and planar projection for the reduced earth having 2to4 cm radius – aspect and secant demo.
- Graded symbolization and isopleth/choropleth map
- Map compilation and Design
- Data Input -Onscreen Digitization -Creation of Point, Line and Polygon layers
- Projection, Reprojection and Coordinate Transformation of Maps
- Attribute data input and Measurement of Distance, Area
- Linking External Database and Tabular Data Analysis using SQL commands
- Generating Graphs,Charts and Diagrams from Tabular data
- Data Conversion -Vector to Raster and Raster to Vector
- Map Joining, Edge Matching and Layout Design
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course, the student is expected to
- Design and produce thematic maps with suitable projection, symbols and color codes
- Compile and develop digital maps
- Create spatial database and non-spatial databases in GIS environment
- Analyze spatial database and generate reports, maps
- Represent spatial data in a professional format
Reference Books:
- Arthur,H.Robinson,Elements of Cartography, Seventh Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
- C.P.Lo Albert K.W.Yeung, “Concepts and Techniques of Geographic Information Systems”, Pearson Education, Second Edition, 2016.
List of Equipments:
- i7 computer system with minimum 4GBRAM, 500GB HDD-15 Numbers for 30 students 2. Standard GIS Software-15 user licenses.
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Geoinformatics Engineering, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit Geo 4th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Geoinformatics Engineering results, visit Anna University Geo all semester results direct link.