📚 GIS APPLICATION – Full Syllabus (CTEVT | Diploma in Geomatics Engineering | PDF)
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This post provides the complete, official syllabus for GIS Application (EG 3103 GE) — perfect for exam preparation, GIS project work, cadastral operations, spatial analysis, and advanced mapping techniques.
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📌 Subject Overview
Subject Name: GIS Application
Subject Code: EG 3103 GE
Year: III
Part: I
Total Hours/Week: 10
Lecture: 4 hrs/week
Practical/Lab: 6 hrs/week
Offered by: CTEVT – Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training
Course Type: Applied / Practical-Integrated Subject
🎯 Course Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
✅ Perform simple and advanced spatial analysis
✅ Integrate spatial and non-spatial datasets
✅ Apply visualization and map design principles
✅ Conduct 3D surface analysis (slope, aspect, hillshade, volume)
✅ Understand GIS project development workflow
✅ Use GIS tools for land administration, cadastral service delivery, and spatial planning
✅ Explain Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and Nepal’s NSDI challenges
📚 Unit-wise Breakdown of GIS APPLICATION Syllabus
📚 Unit 1: Data Integration – 6 Hrs
✔️ Concept of data integration
✔️ Importance of spatial data integration
✔️ Process of data integration
✔️ Join and relate spatial & attribute data
✔️ Projection and coordinate transformation
✔️ Integration of cadastral data with GIS
📚 Unit 2: Spatial Analysis – 18 Hrs
🔹 Introduction to Spatial Analysis
• Definition & importance
• Functions of spatial analysis
🔹 Classification & Measurement Functions
• Measurement of distance/coordinates (raster & vector)
• Spatial selection queries
• Manual & automatic data classification
• Applications
🔹 Overlay & Neighborhood Analysis
• Vector and raster overlay operations
• Buffer generation (point/line/polygon)
• Neighborhood operations
• Practical application examples
🔹 Network Analysis Function
• Introduction & terminology
• Route finding (shortest path)
• Real-world applications
🔹 3D Analysis
• 3D surface representation
• Generating contours, DEM, DSM, TIN
• Slope, aspect, hillshade
• Surface area & volume estimation
• Profile generation
• Applications of DEM in planning
📚 Unit 3: Visualization of Data – 12 Hrs
✔️ Introduction to visualization (hardcopy & softcopy)
✔️ Data types: qualitative & quantitative
✔️ Visual variables (size, color, shape, hue, orientation, texture, value)
✔️ Use of visual variables in spatial visualization
✔️ Types of maps: static, dynamic, interactive
✔️ Base map vs thematic map
✔️ Map design principles
✔️ Web maps & digital maps
📚 Unit 4: Data Quality – 8 Hrs
✔️ Definition of data quality
✔️ Components:
• Spatial accuracy
• Attribute accuracy
• Temporal accuracy
• Logical consistency
• Lineage
✔️ Accuracy vs precision
✔️ Error propagation
✔️ RMSE, user accuracy, producer accuracy
📚 Unit 5: GIS Project Development – 8 Hrs
🔹 Project Definition
• Identifying spatial problems
🔹 Project Design
• Conceptual, logical & physical design
• Data model creation
• Listing project resources
• Identifying limitations
• Expected project outputs
🔹 Project Implementation
• Project scheduling, workflow
🔹 Project Evaluation
• Evaluation criteria & methods
📚 Unit 6: Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) – 8 Hrs
✔️ Concept of SDI
✔️ Components & importance
✔️ Metadata & clearinghouse
✔️ Levels of SDI: local, regional, national, global
✔️ Present scenario & challenges of Nepal’s NSDI
🧪 Practical / Laboratory Work (90 Hrs)
Unit 1: Spatial Analysis
✔️ Integrate spatial data
✔️ Projection conversion
✔️ Geometry calculation
✔️ Database queries
✔️ Geoprocessing & buffers
✔️ Raster ↔ Vector conversion
Unit 2: 3D Analysis
✔️ Create TIN, DEM
✔️ Generate contours
✔️ Slope/aspect/hillshade
✔️ Surface area & volume
✔️ Profile generation
Unit 3: Visualization & Cartography
✔️ Map layout creation
✔️ Symbolization, color design
✔️ Labeling & map elements
✔️ Export maps
Unit 4: Thematic Mapping
✔️ Graduated symbols
✔️ Proportional symbols
✔️ Dot density maps
✔️ Charts and graphs
Unit 5: GIS in Surveying & Parcel Mapping
✔️ Cadastral software handling
✔️ Parcel subdivision
✔️ Map printing
✔️ Report generation (plot book, field book, certificate)
Unit 6: Project Work (30 Hrs)
Students complete a real-world GIS project such as:
✔️ Topographic mapping
✔️ Land use planning
✔️ Hazard mapping
✔️ Cadastral mapping
✔️ Urban change detection
✔️ Municipal database design
📖 Recommended References
• An Introduction to GIS – Ian Heywood
• Principles of GIS – Rolf A. de By (ITC)
• CARTOGRAPHY – Kraak & Ormeling
• GIS and Computer Cartography – Christopher Jones
• Elements of Cartography – Robinson
📊 Evaluation Scheme
| S.N | Units | Hours | Marks | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Data Integration | 6 | 8 | |||||
| 2 | Spatial Analysis | 18 | 24 | |||||
| 3 | Visualization of Data | 12 | 16 | |||||
| 4 | Data Quality | 8 | 10 | |||||
| 5 | GIS Project Development | 8 | 12 | |||||
| 6 | Spatial Data Infrastructure | 8 | 10 | |||||
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📌 Note: Minor changes may occur in the final exam distribution.
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