Part-A (Common)
Engineering Mathematics: Surveying measurements, Accuracy, Precision, Most probable value, Errors and their adjustments, Regression analysis, Correlation coefficient, Least square adjustment, Statistical significant value, Chi square test.
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 Modeling and Network analysis.
Part-B1: Surveying and Mapping
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-B2: Image Processing and Analysis
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.