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BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, LONERE

Question Bank
Geographic Information System

(BTCOE604(A))

Unit 1
1. Define Geographic Information System.
2. What is Geographic Information System? Identify four main ideas of GIS.
3. Describe various applications of Geographic Information System
4. State advantages of using Geographic Information System.
5. State what we can do with GIS
6. Describe key components of Geographic Information System
7. What is attribute data? Describe different types of attribute data.
8. List and explain components of vector data
9. Explain Spaghetti Data Model
10. Describe Dual Independent Map Encoding (DIME) format.
11. Explain arc-node topology vector data model
12. Explain polygon-arc topology vector data model.
13. Differentiate between arc-node topology and polygon-arc topology
14. Differentiate between vector data and raster data.
15. Differentiate between spatial data and non-spatial data.
16. Explain polygon topology.
17. What is Data Model?
18. Identity disadvantages of topological vector data models
19. What is raster data model? Illustrate basic structure of raster data model.
20. What is raster data model in GIS? What are 4 types of raster resolutions?
21. Identify and explain different Types of Raster Models.
22. Identify any four examples of raster data.
23. Explain Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) Data Model.
24. What are the sources of spatial data?
25. List various data sources that can be used to create new geospatial data. Explain any one.
26. List various GIS operations. Explain any two of them
27. Summarize main characteristics of spatial data
28. Show how spatial and attribute is linked in GIS
29. Demonstrate example of GIS.
30. Tabulate applications of GIS.
31. Describe in detail history of GIS
Unit 2
1. State advantages and disadvantages of Vector Data Model
2. State advantages and disadvantages of Raster Data Model
3. State advantages and disadvantages of TIN Data Model
4. Explain exhaustive enumeration / cell by cell raster encoding format.
5. Explain Run Length Encoding format
6. Explain Block Encoding format
7. Explain Chain Encoding format.
8. Explain Quad Tree Encoding format
9. Explain American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII Grid raster file format.
10. Explain Multiresolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) raster file format
11. Explain Enhanced Compression Wavelet (ECW) raster file format.
12. Explain ERDAS Imagine (IMG) file format.
13. Describe Digital raster graphic (DRG) file format.
14. Describe ARC Digitized Raster Graphic (ADRG) raster file format.
15. Describe Enhanced Compressed ARC Raster Graphics (ECRG) raster file format.
16. Describe Portable Network Graphics (PNG) raster file format.
17. Describe Graphic Interchange Format GIF raster file format.
18. Describe Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) raster file format.
19. Describe JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group raster file format.
20. Describe JPEG 2000 raster file format
21. What is non-spatial data attributes? Identify different types of non-spatial data attributes.
22. What is spatial database? Summarize types of spatial database systems.
23. Describe the following raster data structure.
a. Cell by Cell Encoding
b. Run Length Encoding
c. Quad Tree Encoding
24. Describe following
a. Block Encoding
b. Chain Encoding

Unit 3
1. Illustrate why preprocessing of spatial data is essential.
2. List and explain types of spatial data preprocessing.
3. State need of map projection?
4. What is map projection?
5. Evaluate outcome of map projection and define what map projection is
6. Define map projection. Discuss various types of map projections.
7. Classify map projections on the basis of method of construction.
8. Classify map projections on the basis of global properties.
9. Not a single map projection represents globe truly. Why ?
10. Differentiate between—
a. Developable and non-developable surfaces
b. Homolographic and orthographic projections
c. Normal and oblique projections
d. Parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude
11. Classify Map according to what spatial attribute they preserve.
12. What types of distortions occur in spatial properties while projecting the earth's surface
onto a plane? Why?
13. Classify map projections according to projection surfaces.
14. Summarize conic map projection
15. Summarize Cylindrical map projections
16. Summarize Azimuthal map projections.
17. Summarize equal area map projections
18. Summarize equidistant map projections
19. Summarize Conformal map Projections
20. Identify need of spatial interpolation.
21. Illustrate Inverse distance weighted interpolation (IDW)
22. Summarize Natural neighbor interpolation
23. Explain Interpolation based on a triangulated irregular network (TIN).
24. Why is spatial interpolation important in GIS?
25. Summarize spline interpolation methods.
26. Identify types of Kriging
27. State how kriging works
28. Explore any two deterministic methods of spatial interpolation
29. Identify types of spatial resolutions.
30. Describe different types of spatial resolutions
31. Describe / summarize/ identiy how DEM’s are created.
32. Identify importance of Digital Elevation model and its uses.
33. Describe Digital Elevation model in detail.

Unit 4
1. Differentiate between plan and map
2. List all types of errors. Explain any two types of errors.
3. What are the digitizing errors in GIS?
4. Illustrate the importance of errors, accuracy and precision in GIS
5. Define Accuracy, Precision, Error and Quality
6. Discuss Positional accuracy and precision.
7. List and Explain types of errors.
8. Identity Sources of inaccuracy and imprecision in GIS.
9. Describe obvious sources of Errors in GIS.
10. Describe Errors Resulting from Natural Variation or from Original Measurements in GIS
11. Discuss Errors Arising Through Processing in GIS
12. Explain The Problems of Propagation and Cascading in GIS
13. How errors are propagated in GIS
14. Write short note on GIS Analysis.
15. Describe Steps of GIS Analysis.
16. List and explain steps involved in GIS analysis
17. Enlist key elements of map
18. Describe methods of GIS analysis.
19. What are the 7 basic elements of a map
20. Describe basic parts of map.
21. Write short note on “Quality assessment of freely available DEMS”
22. What is a map?
23. Write steps to laying out a map.
24. Why assessing quality of DEM is important
25. Write short note on “Errors in DEM”
26. Describe Primary GIS analytical operations.
27. Differentiate between attribute query and spatial query.
28. Write short note on Limitations of GIS