KHWOPA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Exam Final Assessment Even

(Affiliate to Tribhuvan University) Level BE Full Marks 80

Exam Section Programme BCE Pass Marks 32
2077 Mangsir Year / Part IV / II Time 3 hrs.

SUBJECT:- Elective III (GIS Application & Remote Sensing)

 Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
 Attempt All questions.
 The figures in the margin indicate Full Marks.
 Assume Suitable data if necessary.

1. What are the components of GIS? What are spatial and non-spatial data? Describe the Civil
engineering implications of GIS and remote sensing. [2+2+2]

2. Define datum and map projection in GIS. Describe the types of map projections by the preserved
property. Explain Nepalese Projection Systems with the key parameters. [1+3+2]

3. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of the raster data model vs. the vector data model. What
are primary and secondary sources of GIS data? How do you evaluate the data quality? [3+2+1]

4. What is the feature attribute table in GIS? Why is topology important in GIS? [1+1]

5. What are the functions of DBMS in GIS? Explain RDBMS with examples in GIS. [1+2]

6. Compress the following raster using run length encoding, quadtree encoding, full raster encoding
and point value encoding. Also calculate the percentage compression in each case and suggest the
best compression method for this data. [6]
12 12 12 12 12 12 12 7

12 12 12 12 56 12 12 12

12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

12 12 4 12 12 12 12 12

12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

17 12 12 12 27 12 12 12

12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

12 12 12 12 12 12 18 12

7. You are appointed as an engineer for settlement planning in a mountainous area of Nepal. Your
job is to find the most suitable area for the settlement within the region.
Criteria to be considered:
The settlement should be far from the past location of landslides and flooding zones. It should be
near to the water source and suitable elevation and slope should be considered.
You are provided with following data sets:
i. Total_boundary.shp, landslides_polygon.shp, roads.shp, resources.shp, geology.shp,
river_network_Straher.shp, floodplain_polygon.shp
ii. ALOS_DEM.tif, GPM_rainfall.tif
 Make a reasonable design criteria based on your own judgement (for example: distance from
landslides
es > 500m), illustrate the procedure with neat figures and tools used (both vector and
raster operations) with attribute tables (only for geoprocessing tools). [15]

8. Explain in brief about the different types of interpolation techniques in GIS with their applications
in Civil engineering. [3]

9. How different symbologies differ according to scaling of data? Why is it important to pay
attention to the map design? [3+2]

10. Explain the basic principles and basic equations of GNSS. How time is maintained in GNSS?
What are the sources of errors in GNSS and their corrections? [3+1+2]

11. In the figure below (unit in meters), point out where the following waves are located. Gamma
Ray, Infrared, Microwave, Radio, Ultraviolet, Visible and X
X-rays. [2]

12. The following grid represents ALOS PALSAR DEM data of watersheds whose cell size is 25m.
Using this data, answer the following questions. [1+1+6+1+1]
a) Show the sink cell.
b) What will be the value of that cell when the sink is filled?
c) Calculate the flow direction and flow accumulation value for each cell.
d) What is the area of largest possible watershed (within this region)?
e) Show the river in the raster when stream definition is limited to minimum Strahler stream order
3.
78 72 69 71 58 49

74 67 56 49 36 50

69 40 44 37 37 48

64 58 55 22 22 24

78 61 47 21 21 19

74 53 34 12 11 12

13. Write short short notes on: ((any four) [4*2.5 =10]
a) Raster algebra (local, zonal, focal & global)
b) Implications of spectral signature in RS
c) Multispectral vs hyperspectral remote sensing
d) Active and passive remote sensing
e) Supervised vs unsupervised classification
f) Terrain analysis in GIS

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