Geographical Information System detailed Syllabus for B Architecture (ARCH), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information, visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all the other VTU 6th Sem Syllabus for B.Arch 2018 Scheme, do visit B Architecture 6th Sem 2018 Scheme. For all the Professional Elective-IV 6th Sem 2018 subjects refer to Professional Elective-IV Scheme. The detail syllabus for geographical information system is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Outline:
- Introduction to GIS:GIS as a Hardware/software/application? GIS data, Vector date, Raster data, attribute data, Data capture & methods, Coordinate reference systems
- Introduction to Google EarthAn overview of Google Earth & KML, Google Objects, Descriptive HTML in Placemarks, Ground overlays, Screen overlays, Paths, manipulating a path Polygon, taking profiles of site, creating KML files and exporting to GIS format.
- Creating & analysing GIS data:Capturing survey data through hand held GPS or mobile application. Traversing boundary of site , bringing routes and way point data into GIS. Spatial data, loading raster files, Mosaic raster, Geo referencing raster and vector files, Loading data from OGC web services, databases. Creating vector data layers, joining tabular data, Topology errors & tools, Analyzing raster data, Combining raster and vector data, Raster surface through interpolation, leveraging the power of Spatial database, Vector and raster analysis, Vector Spatial analysis (Buffers), Spatial analysis (interpolation).
- Terrain Analysis& scientific computing of Raster dataset:Creating Digital elevation model (DEM) from point data, Hill shade, Slope, Aspect Creating great Maps: Composing maps: Vector styling, Labelling, Using adobe illustrator for composing multiple vector layers of maps, Designing print maps, Publishing GIS 2D maps on the web
- Create 3D maps: 3D maps in html format and navigate in the internet browser
Reference Books:
- https://sites.duke.edu/envgis/tutorials/introduction-to-google-earth/
- Anita Graser , “Learning QGIS” PAKT open source, 2016.
- GISP Dr. John Van Hoesen, Dr. Luigi Pirelli, GISP Dr. Richard Smith Jr., GISP Kurt Menke, ” A refreshing look at QGIS: Mastering QGIS”, PACKT Pub., 2016.
- Displaying and analysing 3D data in Surfer software.
- Carson, Tom, Baker, Donna L., “Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction”, Springer publication, 2006 ,available as Google Ebook.
For detail Syllabus of all other subjects of ARCH, 2018 scheme, visit B Architecture 6th Sem Syllabus for 2018 scheme.
For all (CBSE & Non-CBSC) B.Arch results, visit VTU B.Arch all semester results.