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Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. Instructor: Prof. Arun K. Saraf, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee. The proposed course provides basic understanding about GIS Technology. Presently, GIS is being used extensively in various domains including in civil engineering, water resources, earth sciences, transportation engineering, navigation etc. Google Earth and Google Map are very popular custom designed user friendly GIS products which are widely used for various purposes including in navigation etc. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 17 - GIS Analysis: Buffer Analysis


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Lecture 01 - What is Geographic Information Systems?
Lecture 02 - Different Components of GIS
Lecture 03 - Different Types of Vector Data and Concept of Topology
Lecture 04 - Raster Data Models and Comparisons with Vector
Lecture 05 - TIN Data Model and Comparisons with Raster
Lecture 06 - Non-spatial Data (Attributes) and their Types
Lecture 07 - Raster Data Comparison Techniques
Lecture 08 - Spatial Database Systems and their Types
Lecture 09 - Pre-processing of Spatial Datasets
Lecture 10 - Geo-referencing
Lecture 11 - Different Map Projections
Lecture 12 - Spatial Interpolation Techniques
Lecture 13 - Digital Elevation Models and Different Types of Resolutions
Lecture 14 - Quality Assessment of Freely Available DEMS
Lecture 15 - GIS Analysis
Lecture 16 - GIS Analysis: Overlaying Operations
Lecture 17 - GIS Analysis: Buffer Analysis
Lecture 18 - Classification Methods
Lecture 19 - Errors in GIS and Key Elements of Maps
Lecture 20 - Limitations of GIS