UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN GEOINFORMATICS
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester VI - Application Oriented Subject IV - Remote Sensing and GIS Application to Human Settlement and Urban Planning

Duration: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

UNIT I

Introduction: Importance of Remote Sensing data for Urban Planning and Settlement - Analysis and identification of Settlement features from images - Visual and digital data analysis techniques.

UNIT II

Regional analysis: Suitability of Remote Sensing data, Land use/Land cover/ Landscape mapping, classification system, settlement types - Rural and Urban mapping - Environmental factors suitable and unsuitable for settlement development.

UNIT III

Urban Analysis: Types of data for urban study - Urban morphology, Zoning systems, Urban land use zoning, slums, commercial and residential zones, Urban sprawl - Urban area delineation and change detection - Urban expansion and land suitability/identification for new township using Remote Sensing Data, Rural Land Analysis.

UNIT IV

Use of Aerial Photographs: Urban dwelling, Population Estimation, Urban Renewal and Area Planning, Study of infrastructure and utility areas, Power and Drainage, Transport network analysis, Updating - Traffic/Transport Planning, Route alignment,

UNIT V

Information System: Date Base Organisation - Geographic Information System on a large scale, data entry manipulation, retrieval, suitable software package, use of information for urban planning - case studies.

Books Recommended

Planning and Aerial information by Brench, M.C., Harvard University, Cambridge, 1971.

Application of Aerial Photographs and Remote Sensing Imagery to Urban Research and Studies by Berling. G.L. and Roy, W.W., Monticell, 1989.

Multisensor signature of urban morphology, function and evaluations by Bounden, L.W., Department of Geography, University of California.