GATE Preparation 2023
Geomatics Engineering
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Class Start Date - November 15th
Last Date of Admission - November 02nd
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART A: Common
Remote Sensing - Basic concept, Electromagnetic spectrum, Spectral signature, Resolutions-Spectral. Spatial, Temporal and Radiometric, Platforms and Sensors, Remote Sensing Data Products - PAN, Multispectral, Microwave, Thermal, Hyperspectral, Visual and digital interpretation methods.
GNSS - Principle used, Components of GNSS, Data collection methods, DGPS, Errors in observations and corrections.
GIS - Introduction, Data Sources, Data Models and Data Structures, Algorithms, DBMS, Creation of Databases (spatial and non-spatial), Spatial analysis - Interpolation, Buffer, Overlay, Terrain Modelling and Network analysis.
PART B: Section I
Maps - Importance of maps to engineering projects, Types of maps, Scales and uses, Plotting accuracy, Map sheet numbering, Coordinate systems- Cartesian and geographical, map projections, map datum – MSL, Geoid, spheroid, WGS-84.
Land Surveying - Various Levels, Levelling methods, Compass, Theodolite and Total Station and their uses, Tachometer, Trigonometric levelling, Traversing, Triangulation and Trilateration.
Aerial Photogrammetry - Types of photographs, flying height and scale, Relief (height) displacement, Stereoscopy, 3-D Model, Height determination using Parallax Bar, Digital Elevation Model (DEM), Slope.
PART B: Section II
Data Quantization and Processing - Sampling and quantization theory, Principle of Linear System, Convolution, Continuous and Discrete Fourier Transform.
Digital Image Processing - Digital image characteristics: image histogram and scattergram and their significance, Variance-Covariance matrix, Correlation matrix and their significance.
Radiometric and Geometric Corrections – Registration and Resampling techniques.
Image Enhancement – Contrast Enhancement: Linear and Non-linear methods; Spatial Enhancement: Noise and Spatial filters
Image Transformation – Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Discriminant Analysis, Color transformations (RGB - IHS, CMYK), Indices (Ratios, NDVI, NDWI).
Image Segmentation and Classification – Simple techniques.