Application of GIS in Civil Engineering — Winter 2025

Explain the importance of GIS in water supply engineering.

Discuss the applications of GIS in transportation route assignment.

Explain how GIS can be useful for hydrology and flood forecasting?

List the applications of GIS to find patterns in natural occurrences like soil erosion.

Discuss the benefits of spatial filtering.

Discuss how GIS can be useful to improve the traffic congestion and parking facilities in a metropolitan city.

Briefly describe the procedure of watershed delineation in ArcSWAT.

Explain the significance of vector data analysis in QGIS.

Give out methods of creating a Vector Map.

Explain various features and importance of ArcGIS online (AGOL).

Describe the types of GIS maps.

Write a short note on Database Management Systems.

Write a note on following GIS spatial data sources.

Natural Earth Data (ii) Open Topography (ii)

Write a short note on spatial interpolation.

What is distortion? Which properties are changed due to distortions in Projections? What are the factors that determine the distortion?

Explain the planer, cylindrical and conical projections of coordinate systems.

Discuss various raster and vector data file formats.

Describe various measurement levels of attribute data.

What is a geographic phenomenon? What is the difference between a Raster and Vector data?

Define Datum. Give out difference between Horizontal & Vertical datum.

Explain the specific features of Digital Terrain models.

Enlist the errors found in Digital Elevation Models. Explain how they can be removed.

Write a brief note on USGS DEMs.

Explain Digital Surface Models (DSM).

Discuss the factors affecting DEM accuracy.