UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN GEOGRAPHY TOURISM AND TRAVEL MANAGEMENT
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester VI - Practical III - Mapping of Geographical Data

Duration: 3hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

1. Cartographic Appreciation : Indian sheet, OS.sheet, US.sheet, transport and tourism plate(each one)

2. Marginal Information of Aerial Photograph and annotation-landsat imagenes- Comparison of toposheet, aerial photograph and satellite imagery.

3. Interpretatin- (each one)- Transport and tourism plate - Weather map - Weather satellite imagery using newspaper cutting.

4. Representation of quantitative data-mean, median, mode-frequency curve and frequency polygon-standard deviation-deviation graph-correlation-rank correlation.

5. Diagrammatic representation of climatic data and tourism data - Climatic graph- Climograph - Simple wind roses - Line graph-bars- pie diagram-pictorial diagram.

REFERENCE

1. Singh R.L. and Kahonjia - The work of practical Geography - London Press - London-1978

2. Singh L and Dutt PA. - Elements of practical Geography - Students Friends -1968

3. R.P.Misra and Ramesh - Elements of Cartography