Application of GIS in Civil Engineering — Summer 2025

Explain the significance of GIS in civil engineering projects.

Discuss the applications of GIS in waste collection and municipal operations in a metropolitan city.

What is the methodology that can be adopted for flood forecasting and early warning to the stakeholders using GIS?

List the applications of GIS in the field of hydrology.

Explain the update and erase in feature manipulation.

Discuss how GIS can be useful to improve the road traffic management in a metropolitan city.

Briefly describe the procedure of watershed delineation in ArcMap.

List out the tools of QGIS used in vector data analysis.

Show how the spatial and attribute data is linked in GIS.

Explain the co-ordinate georeferencing procedure in QGIS.

What is map scale? Describe the types of map scales.

What is data redundancy in DBMS? Give advantages and disadvantages of data redundancy.

Write a note on following GIS spatial data sources.

USGS earth explorer (ii) Open Street map (ii)

Write a note on azimuthal projections.

Explain the spatial and database queries in GIS.

Differentiate between horizontal co-ordinate systems and vertical co-ordinate systems in GIS.

Discuss various Digital Elevation file formats.

Explain Metadata styles and standards

Explain various raster and vector data models in GIS.

Write a short note on GIS interfaces.

Explain the main components of Triangular irregular networks (TIN)

Write a note on dynamic visualization1

List various internet sources of Digital Elevation Model (DEM).

Outline a number of different methods for calculating slope from a DEM.

Design an algorithm that calculates slope and aspect from a triangulated irregular network (TIN) model.