REMOTE SENSING AND GIS

Unit Wise Important Questions

UNIT – I
INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOGRAMMETRY

1. What is photogrammetry and its types**

2. Aerial photograph and its types and geometry of vertical aerial photograph***
3. Differences between vertical and oblique photographs***
4. Explain scale measurement on single vertical aerial photograph**
5. Height measurement based on relief displacement***
6. Height measurement on single vertical aerial photograph
7. (a) Fundamentals of stereoscopy and stereoscopic vision
(b) Fiducial points or lines or marks
8. Parallax measurement using fiducially line

UNIT – II
REMOTE SENSING

1. (a) Define remote sensing and its basic concept***

(b) Elements involved in remote sensing***
2. EMR (or) energy interaction with the
(a) Atmosphere***
(b) Earth surface***
3. Explain briefly
(a) Electromagnetic spectrum**
(b) Sensors***
(c) Satellite***
4. Explain visual interpretation techniques and its basic elements**
5. Explain
(a) Resolution and Converging evidence***
(b) Interpretation for terrain evaluation*
6. Explain
(a) Spectral properties of water bodies*
(b) Introduction to digital data analysis**

UNIT – III
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM & TYPES OF DATA REPRESENTATION

1. Define and explain GIS in detail with its various terminologies***

2. What are fundamental operations of GIS**
3. What are various components of GIS***
4. Explain Theoretical framework of GIS and categories of GIS***
 5. Elucidate
(a) Data collection**
(b) Data input and output**
6. Briefly explain the following
(a) Keyboard entry and coordinate geometry procedure**
(b) Manual digitizing and scanning**
(c) File management
7. What are Vector and Raster types of GIS***
8. Explain the following
(a) Spatial data***
(b) Layer based GIS
(c) Feature based GIS mapping

UNIT - IV
GIS SPATIAL ANALYSIS

1. Define GIS spatial analysis and explain

(a) Computational Analysis Methods (CAM) ***
(b) Visual Analysis Methods (VAM) ***
2. Define data storage and its types **
3. Explain about vector and attribute data storages ***
4. Briefly explain the overview of the data manipulation and analysis*
5. Explain the Integrated analysis of the spatial and attribute data ***

UNIT – V
WATER RESOURCES APPLICATIONS

1. Explain
(a) Land use/Land cover in water resources ***
(b) Surface water mapping and inventory **
2. Explain Rainfall – Runoff relations and runoff potential indices of watersheds***
3. Discuss about Flood and Drought impact assessment and monitoring***
4. Explain Watershed management for sustainable development and Watershed
characteristics**
5. Discuss
(a) Reservoir sedimentation**
(b) Fluvial Geomorphology
(c) Water resources management and monitoring*
6. Explain Ground Water Targeting and discuss about Identification of sites for artificial
Recharge structures***
7. Discuss the following
(a) Drainage Morphometry*
(b) Inland water quality survey and management***
(c) Water depth estimation and bathymetry**