The proposed course provides basic understanding about digital elevation models (DEMs) and their applications in Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences. Further, in the proposed course various DEMs, their source, generation techniques, derivatives, errors and limitations would be discussed extensively. Surface Hydrologic Modelling using DEMs, modelling derivatives and their applications would also be discussed.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Under graduate and post graduate engineering students and post graduate science students
Pre-requisites
Current students of engineering, post graduate science students and PhD students should have basic knowledge of GIS.
Industries that will recognize this course
Geoinformatics companies, e.g NIIT, ESRI India, Leica Geoinformatics, MapmyIndia, ISRO, etc.
1390 students have enrolled already!!
COURSE INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Arun K. Saraf is taken Ph. D. (Remote Sensing) from University of Dundee, United Kingdom. Presently he is working as Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and teaches courses on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Advanced GIS, Remote Sensing, Geomorphology etc. to under- and post-graduate students of Geological Technology and Applied Geology. He was also Head of Department of Earth Sciences between Jan. 2012 – Feb. 2015. He was first in the country to introduce GIS course to post-graduate students in the year 1990. In 1986, he was awarded “National Fellowship to Study Abroad” by Govt. of India for his doctoral degree. Further, in 1993 he was awarded “Indo-US S&T Fellowship” and worked in Goddard Space Flight Centre, NASA, USA for Post Doctoral Research. He has been also awarded “National Remote Sensing Award-2001” by Indian Society of Remote Sensing and “GIS Professional of the Year Award-2001” by Map India 2002 for his outstanding research contributions in the fields of Remote Sensing and GIS. Earlier, he has also been given several Khosla Research Awards and Prizes by then University of Roorkee. So far Prof. Saraf has published more than 100 research papers in journals of repute (ISI) and supervised 11 Ph.Ds. He was also Associate Editor of International Journal of Remote Sensing during 2003-2015. Through funding from DST, Min. of Earth Sciences, CSIR, Prof. Saraf has been able to establish and operating NOAA-HRPT Satellite Earth Station at IITR since Oct. 2002, first in any educational institute in the country. This Earth Station is still operational and acquiring data from NOAA-18 & 19 day-and-night. Further, recently Prof. Saraf have also recorded three NPTEL video courses on Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, Introduction to Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing of Remote Sensing Data.
COURSE LAYOUT
Week 1: Concept of digital elevation model (DEM) and how it is represented? Various techniques to generate digital elevation models-1 Various techniques to generate digital elevation models-2 Various techniques to generate digital elevation models-3 Importance of spatial resolution with DEMs
Week 2: How to assess quality of a DEM? Integration of DEMs with satellite data Common derivatives of DEMs -Slope and aspect Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) and its derivatives Shaded relief models and their applications
Week 4: DEMs based Surface Hydrologic Modelling-2 DEMs and dam simulation and its application in groundwater hydrology Applications of DEMs in solar and wind energy potential estimations Applications of DEMs in Viewshed and Flood Hazard Mapping DEMs Sources, limitations and future of Digital Elevation Models
CERTIFICATION EXAM
• The exam is optional for a fee.
• Date and Time of Exams: April 28 (Saturday) and April 29 (Sunday) : Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm
• Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
• The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATE
• Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
• 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of 4 week course average of Best 3 out of 4 assignments
• E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score.Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc/
