NS402_Geoinformatics

Instructor: Dr. Mansoor Ahmed Hashmi, B.Engg(Lakehead University,

Canada), MS,PhD (Colorado State University, USA), Vice
President(Retd.), NESPAK)
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General information
NS402: Geoinformatics
Fall 2018

Section A Lecture Thurs 0330 pm- 0430pm Loc: CE11

Lab Fri 0500 pm-0800 pm Loc:
Section B LectureThurs 0930 am-1030 am Loc: CE12
Lab Thurs 0500 pm- 0800 pm Loc
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Texts:
1. Application of GIS and RS, Training Manual for Managers (Vol
1,1996),International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
(ICIMOD), Nepal,
Additional Texts:
2. GIS Basics, Shahab Fazal, New Age International, Aligarh, 2008
3. Introduction to Remote Sensing, Fifth Edition, James B. Campbell &
Randolph H. Wyne

Readings are mostly assigned only from ICIMOD Manual. Students are
encouraged to read additional texts for more detailed understanding
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GRADING:

3 Quizes, 2 Mid Terms, Final

Assignments will be assigned from Lab Sessions. All tests will be based on
reading assignments and class slides
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Week 1 (Aug30) – Overview of GIS (Reading assgt. p 5-27)

Philosophy of GIS, Why GIS?, thinking spatially, GIS definitions, history of GIS, spatial
operations, components of GIS
Week 2 (Sep 05) – GIS Applications
Municipal, utilities, landuse planning, water resources, dam engineering, irrigation,
groundwater, floods etc.
Week 3 (Sep 12)- GIS Concepts (p 31-55)
Mapping concepts, projection systems, geographic data, data linkage, exact matching,
hierarchical matching, fuzzy matching
Week 4 (Sep 19)- GIS Concepts (p56-70)
Types of spatial data, attribute data, vector model, raster model, advantages &
disadvantages, functions of GIS
Quiz#1
Week 5 (Sep 26)- Data Capture(p71-83)
Data capture, manual digitizing, scanning, key punching, data conversion
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Week 6 (Oct 04)- Mid -1

Week 7 (Oct 11)- Data Management (p 84-90)
Spatial data management, attribute data management, relational data management
Week 7 (Oct 18)- Intro to Remote Sensing (p 97-122)
Intro to RS, electro-magnetic radiation, types of RS, transmittance of atmosphere,
interaction between matter & EM radiation, ideal RS, components of RS
Week 8 (Oct 25)- RS platforms and sensors (p123-165)
Platforms, sensors, resolution, remote sensing satellites
Quiz#2
Week 9(Nov 01)- Digital Image Processing(p168-203)
Digital image processing, image interpretation, classification
Week 10 (Nov 02) Global Positioning System (211-219)
Basics, components, control segment, space segment, user segment
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Week 10 (Nov08) Mid- 2

Week (Nov 15)- Global Positioning System (p221-226)
Absolute positioning, differential positioning, GPS applications
Week 11(Nov 22)-Geographic Analyses (p227-248)
Introduction, database query, overlay operations, vector overlay, raster overlay
Week 12 (Nov 29)-Geographic Analyses (p249-258)
Buffer Operations, digital terrain model, network analyses, tabular and statistical
analyses
Quiz#3
Week 13(Dec 13) – Review
 Class Rules

1. Attendence will be marked 5 minutes after the start of the

class
2. No mobile phones ringing or texting
3. Students leaving the class during lecture will be marked
absent
4. Plagiarism in any form will be severely punished
5. Students are encouraged to ask questions
 A Geographical Information
System) (GIS) is a hardware and
software system for the
storage, management, analyses
and retrieval capabilities of
geo-referenced data in the form
of maps
 …Contd

GIS, provides a platform to integrate data

from various sources.
These sources include latest high
resolution satellite images, existing paper
maps, files, field observations etc.
 Spatial
data

GIS
Computer hardware /
?
Specific applications /
software tools decision making objectives
Better information management

Higher quality analysis

Ability to carry out “what if?”

scenarios

Improve project efficiency

Computers
scanners
plotters
ARCGIS 10.3 (ESRI, Redlands, CA)
Geomedia ( INTERGRAPH Corp.)
Global Mapper
Others
The layers of data are
stored in the GIS using
one of two distinctly
different data models,
known as raster and
vector. Both models use
a coordinate system to
store the location of
features, however they
differ in the way in which
they represent the shape
and size of the features
MANGLA DAM RESERVOIR
• Vector Data
• Tabular Data
• Data capturing scale is important
•House is point on 1:50,000 but polygon on
1:1000
• Scale affects data accuracy and cost
A GIS stores a representation of
the world in the form of layers
connected by a common
geographical frame of reference.
The simple concept of layers
allows a GIS to abstract the
complexity of the real world into
a number of discrete levels of
observation each containing
information relevant to a
particular group of features, e.g.
buildings, roads, trees, soil types,
customer locations
•Customer Service Agribusiness & forestry
Defense & intelligence
•Environmental Management
Education
•Marketing Financial Services
•Operations Management Government
•Routing,Tracking & Scheduling Health care
Law Enforcement
•Site Selection
Manufacturing
•Visualization & Decision Support Real estate
Retail
Telecommunications
Tourism & recreation
Transportation
Utilities
 GIS
DATABASE
DISTRICTS
LANDUSE
POPULATION
PROPOSED SANITARY
NETWORK FOR
CONTRACT-7 AREA
SEWER LINES,MANHOLES DATABASE
JEDDAH, KSA

GIS DATABASE LINKING

GRAPHICAL USER
INTERFACE (GUI)
1 GENERAL QUERIES

identification
 EXTRACTING
T21 LATERALS

T6
PROPOSED
SYSTEM
2 GENERAL QUERIES
Select by dia

2000 1500

Length = 6648.83 m

…and if you want to see by DIAMETER

3 GENERAL QUERIES

Select by area by layers