Cartography and GIS detailed syllabus for Geoinformatics Engineering (Geoinformatics) for 2019 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Geoinformatics 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 Geoinformatics 4th Sem 2019 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of cartography and gis is as follows.
Course Objective:
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Unit I
Elements of Cartography
Definition of Cartography – Maps – functions – uses ” Types of Maps – Map Scales and Contents – Map projections – shape, distance, area and direction properties – perspective and mathematical projections – Indian maps and projections – Map co-ordinate systems – geometric transformations – bilinear and affine transformations – UTM and UPS references
Unit II
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Unit III
Fundamentals of Gis
Introduction to GIS – Definitions – History of GIS – Components of a GIS – Hardware, Software, Data, People, Methods – Types of data – Spatial, Attribute data- types of attributes – scales/ levels of measurements – spatial data models – Raster Data Structures – Raster Data Compression -Vector Data Structures – Raster vs Vector Models- TIN ,GRID and Network Data Models.
Unit IV
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Unit V
Data Quality and Output
Data quality – Basic aspects – completeness, logical consistency, positional accuracy, temporal accuracy, thematic accuracy and lineage – Metadata – GIS Standards – Interoperability – OGC Concepts and FOS (Free and Open Source Software) – Spatial Data Infrastructure – Data Output -Map Compilation – Multimedia Products – Visualization of Geographical Information Data.
Course Outcome:
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Text Books:
- Arthur, H. Robinson, Elements of Cartography, Seventh Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2004.
- Kang-Tsung Chang, ” Introduction to Geographic Information Systems”, McGraw Hill Publishing, 9th Edition, 2018.
References:
- John Campbell, ” introductory Cartography”, Wm.C. Brown Publishers, 3rd Edition, 2004
- C.P. Lo Albert K.W. Yeung, Concepts and Techniques of Geographic Information Systems, Pearson Publishers, 2016.
- Ian Heywood, Sarah Cornelius, Steve Carver, Srinivasa Raju, “An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems, Pearson Education, 4th Edition, 2012.
- R.P.Misra, A.Ramesh, Fundamentals of Cartography, Concept publishing company,1989,ISBN-81-7022-222-2
- W.Cartwright,G.Gartner,A.Lehn, Cartography and Art,Springer,2009,ISBN: 978-3-54068567-8.
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