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SRM UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
M.TECH - GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
(For the Students admitted from the academic year 2012- 13 onwards)
CURRICULUM
Subject Code
Title
Applied Mathematics
Experimental Geomechanics
Strength and Deformation Behaviour of Soils
Shallow Foundations
Elective I
TOTAL
SEMESTER II
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
4
4
3
3
18
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
4
4
3
3
18
Elective - IV
Elective - V
Elective - VI
3
3
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
3
3
0
0
0
0
14
2
7
1
SEMESTER I
THEORY
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GT0505
EI
THEORY
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GT0504
GT0506
E2
E3
THEORY
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E5
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PRACTICAL
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GT0603
PRACTICAL
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17
34
17
17
LIST OF ELECTIVES
Subject
Code
Title
T P C
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PAVEMENT ENGINEERING
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EARTH PRESSURE
STRUCTURES
RETAINING 3
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GT0709
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GT0711
ENVIRONMENTAL GEOTECHNOLOGY
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IN 3
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MARINE FOUNDATIONS
AND
EARTH
APPLICATION
SEMESTER I
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EXPERIMENTAL GEOMECHANICS
UNIT I GENERAL
Scopes and objectives of explorations Planning a subsurface exploration stages in sub surface
exploration Explorations for preliminary and detailed design spacing and depth of
exploration.
UNIT II OPEN EXCAVATION AND BORINGS OF EXPLORATION
Pits and Trenches Drifts and Shafts Methods of boring Auger Borings Wash Borings
Rotary Drilling Percussion Drilling Core Drilling.
UNIT IIISOIL SAMPLES AND SAMPLERS
Types of soil samples Disturbed samples Undisturbed samples Design Features affecting
the sample Disturbance Split spoon samplers Scraper Bucket Samplers Shell by Tubes and
Thin walled Samplers Piston Samplers Denis Samplers Preservation and handling of
samples.
UNIT IVIN-SITU TESTING
Field tests Standard Penetration Tests Cone Penetration Tests In-situ Vane Shear Test
Plate Load Test monotonic and cyclic Field Permeability Tests In-situ Tests using Pressure
meter Observation of Ground Water Table. - Instrumentation in soil engineering, strain gauges,
resistance and inductance type
UNIT V GEOPHYSICAL METHODS
Geophysical methods-types-Seismic Methods Electrical Resistivity Methods Electrical
Profiling Method Electrical Sounding Method seismic refraction method Sub-soil
Investigation Report.
REFERENCES
1. Sub surface exploration and Sampling of soils for Civil Engineering Purpose by Hvorslev,
M.J. Waterways Station, Vicksburg, Missispi, 1949.
2. Foundation Engineering by S.P. Brahma, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Limited,
New Delhi, 1985.
3. Analysis and Design of Foundations and Retainig Structures by ShamsherPrakash,
GopalRanjan and Swami Saran, SaritaPrakasham, Meerut.1979.
4. Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering, Vol. 2 by V.N.S. Murthy, SaiKripa Technical
Consultants, Bangalore.
5. Geotechnical Engineering by C. Venkataramaiah, Wiley Eastern Ltd., New Delhi.
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SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS
UNIT I INTRODUCTION
Developments - need of Foundation Engineering - Responsibility of Foundation Engineer Classification - General requirements - Additional consideration - selection of type of foundation
- hostile environment - structural integrity - economy.
UNIT II BEARING CAPACITY ESTIMATIONS
Bearing capacity of shallow foundations - Homogeneous - Layered soils - Soft and Hard Rocks Evaluation of bearing capacity from insitu tests - partial safety factor approach codal Recommendations.
UNIT III SETTLEMENT EVALUATION
Settlement analysis-immediate-consolidation settlement-layered soil and rocks-construction
period correction-evaluation from insitu tests - code recommendations.
UNIT IV INTERACTIVE ANALYSIS OF FOUNDATIONS
Analysis of foundation - individual - strip - combined footings and mat foundations conventional
- elastic approach - soil structure interaction principles -Soil Structure Interaction problemscontact pressure distribution-factors influencing contact pressure distribution beneath rigid and
flexible footings-concentrically and eccentrically loaded cases- Idealized soil behavior
Foundation behavior, Interface behavior, Analytical techniques, Slope of soil Foundation
interaction analysis
UNIT V FOUNDATION FOR SPECIAL CONDITIONS
Introduction to special foundations - Foundation design in relation to ground movements Foundation on recent refuse fills - Design of Foundation for seismic forces - Codal
recommendations - Introduction to theory of vibration - Design of Block foundation - Codal
recommendations.
REFERENCES
1. Donald P. Coduto, Foundation Design Principles and Practices - Prentice Hall, Inc.,
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1996.
2. Winterkorn, H.F. and Fang, Y.F., Foundation Engineering Handbook, Van Nostrand
Reinhold, 1994.
3. Peck, R.B., Hansen, W.E., and Thornburn, W.H., Foundation Engineering, John Wiley, 1974.
4. Robert Wade Brown, Practical Foundation Engineering Handbook, McGraw Hill, New York,
1996.
5. Bowles, J.E., Foundation Analysis and Design, McGraw Hill, New York, 1996.
6. Tomlinson, M.J. Foundation Engineering, ELBS, Long man Group, UK Ltd., England, 1995.
7. Swami Saran, Soil Dynamics and Machine Foundation, Galgottia Publications Pvt. Ltd., New
Delhi-110002, 1999.
8. Vargheese, P.C. Limit State Design of Reinforced concrete, Prentice-Hall of India, 1994.
9. Day, R.W., Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering, Design and Construction, McGraw
Hill 1999.
10. Muni Budhu, Soil Mechanics and Foundation, John Wiley and Sons, INC 2000.
11. Donald P. Coduto, (2002), Geotechnical Engg. Principles and Practices, Prentice - Hall of
India Private Limited, ISBN-81-203-2137-5.
12. Nainan P. Kurian, Design of Foundation Systems, Principles and Practices, Narosa
Publishing House, ISBN-81-7319-4963.
13. Hemsley, J.A, Elastic Analysis of Raft Foundations, Thomas Telford, 1998.
14. McCarthy, D.F. Essentials of Soil Mechanics and Foundations, basic geotechnics (6th
Edition), Prentice Hall, 2002.
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APPLIED MATHEMATICS
3 2 0 4
3. Gupta, S.C. and Kapoor, V.K., Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics, Sultan Chand and
Sons, New Delhi (2001).
4. Andrews, L.C. and Shivamoggi, B.K., Integral Transforms for Engineers, Prentice Hall of
India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (2003).
SEMESTER - II
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REFERENCES
1.
Mitchell, J.K., Fundamentals of Soil Behaviour, John Wiley, New York, 1993
2.
Yong, R.N. and Warkentin, B.P., Introduction to Soil Behaviour, Macmillan, Limited,
London, 1979.
3.
Perloff, W.H. and Baron, W, Soil Mechanics, The Ronal Press Company, 1976.
4.
5.
Grim, R.E., Applied Clay Mineralogy, McGraw Hill, New York, 1966.
6.
Lambe, T.W. and Whitman, R.V. Soil Mechanics, John Wiley and Sons, New York,
1979.
7.
8.
Coduto, D.P., Geotechnical Engineering Principles and practices, Prentice Hall of India
Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2002
9.
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DEEP FOUNDATIONS
REFERENCES
1.
2.
Cernica, J.N. Geotechnical Engineering Foundation Design, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
1995.
3.
Poulos, H.G., Davis, E.H., Pile foundation analysis and design, John Wiley and Sons,
New York, 1980.
4.
Tomlinson, M.J. Foundation engineering, ELBS, Longman Group, U.K. Ltd., England
1995.
5.
Bowles, J.E., Foundation Analysis and Design, McGraw Hill book Company, 1996.
6.
Donald, P., Unduto, Foundation Design Principles and Practices, Prentice Hall, Inc.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1996.
7.
Winterkorn, H.F. and Fang, H.Y Foundation Engineering Handbook, Von Nostrand
Reinhold, 1994.
8.
Grigorian, Pile Foundation for Buildings and Structures in collapsible Soil, Oxford &
IBH Publishing Co, Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1999.
9.
Robert wade Brown, Practical Foundation Engineering Handbook, McGraw Hill, New
York, 1996.
10.
Tomlinson, M.J., Pile design and construction practice, Cement and concrete association,
1977.
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GROUND IMPROVEMENT
UNIT I DEWATERING
Introduction - Scope and necessity of ground improvement in Geotechnical engineering- basic
concepts and philosophy. Drainage - Ground Water lowering by well points deep wells, vacuum
and electro-osmotic methods. Stabilization by thermal and freezing techniques.
UNIT II COMPACTION AND SAND DRAINS
Insitu compaction of granular and cohesive soils, Shallow and Deep compaction sand piles
concept, design, factors influencing compaction Blasting and dynamic consolidation
Preloading with sand drains, fabric drains, wick drains etc. theories of sand drain design and
relative merits.
REFERENCES
1.
Koerner, R.M., Designing with Geosynthetics (Third Edition), Prentice Hall, 1997.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Davies, M.C. and Schlosser, F., Ground Improvement Gas Systems, American Society of
Civil Engineers, 1997.
6.
7.
Das, B.M., Principles of Foundation Engineering, (Fourth Edition). PWS Publishing, 1999
8.
9.
Koerner, R.M. and Welsh, J.P., Construction and Geotechnical Engineering using
Synthetic Fabrics, John Wiley, 1990.
10.
11.
Shroff, A.V., Grouting Technology in Tunneling and Dam, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.
Pvt.Ltd., New Delhi, 1999.
12.
Lee. C.F., Lau, L.K.., Ng., C.W.W., KwongA.K., Pang., P.L.R., Yin, J.K., and Yue, Z.Q.,
Soft soil engineering, proceeding third international conference on soft soil engineering
A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2001
ELECTIVES
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REFERENCES
1. KameswaraRao, N.S.V., Dynamics soil tests and applications, Wheeler Publishing - New
Delhi, 2000.
2. Prakash, S and Puri, V.K., Foundations for machines, McGraw Hill, 1987.
3. Moore, P.J., Analysis and Design of Foundations for Vibrations, Oxford and IBH, 1985.
4. Vaidyanathan, C.V., and Srinivasalu, P., Handbook of Machine Foundations, McGraw Hill,
1995.
5. Arya, S., O'Neil, S., Design of Structures and Foundations for Vibrating Machines, Prentice
Hall, 1981.
6. Major, A., Vibration Analysis and Design of Foundations for Machines and Turbines, Vol. I,
II and III Budapest, 1964.
7. Barkon, D.D., Dynamics of Basis of Foundation, McGraw Hill, 1974.
8. Swami Saran, Soil Dynamics and Machine Foundation, Galgotia publications Pvt. Ltd., New
Delhi 1999.
9. Das B.M., Principles of Soils Dynamics, McGraw Hill, 1992.
10. KrammerS.L., Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, prentice hall, international series,
Pearson Education (Singapore) Pvt. Ltd., 2004.
11. KameswaraRao, "Vibration Analysis and Foundation Dynamics", wheeler Publishing, New
Delhi, 1998.
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PAVEMENT ENGINEERING
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Highway
Wright, P.H., Highway Engineers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1996
2.
KhannaS.K and Justo C.E.G, Highway Engineering, New Chand and Brothers, Roorkee,
1998
3.
Croney, D., Design and Performance of Road Pavements, HMO Stationary Office, 1979.
4.
Design and Specification of Rural Roads (Manual), Ministry of rural roads, Government
of India, New Delhi, 2001
5.
Yoder R.J and WitchakM.W., Principles of Pavement Design, John Wiley, 2000.
6.
Guidelines for the Design of Flexible Pavements, IRC:37 - 2001, The Indian roads
Congress, New Delhi.
7.
Guideline for the Design of Rigid Pavements for Highways, IRC:58-1998, The
Indian
9.
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REFERENCES
1.
Aysen, A., Soil Mechanics: Basic concepts and Engineering Applications, A.A.Balkema
Publishers, 2002.
2.
3.
4.
Davis, R.O., and Selvadurai, A.P.S., Elasticity and Geomechanics, Cambridge University
Press, 1996.
5.
6.
Wai-Fah Chen, and Liu, X.L., Limit Analysis in Soil Mechanics, Elsevier Science Ltd.,
1991.
7.
Muni Budhu, Soil Mechanics and Foundations, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Network, 2000.
8.
9.
10.
11.
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Winterkorn, H.F. and Fang, H.Y., Foundation Engineering Handbook, Galgotia Booksource, 2000.
2.
3.
Militisky, J. and Woods, R., Earth and Earth retaining structures, Routledge, 1992.
4.
Koerner, R.M., Design with Geosynthetics (Third Edition), Prentice Hall, 1997.
5.
Day, R.W., Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering: Design and Construction, McGraw
Hill, 1999.
6.
Das, B.M., Principles of Geotechnical Engineering (Fourth Edition). The PWS series in
Civil Engineering, 1998
7.
Clayton, C.R.I., Militisky, J. and Woods, R.I., Earth pressure and Earth-Retaining
structures (Second Edition), Survey University Press, 1993.
8.
Mandal, J.N., Reinforced Soil and Geotextiles, Oxford &IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.,
New Delhi.
9.
McCarthy, D.F., Essentials of Soil Mechanics and Foundations: Basic Geotechnics (Sixth
Edition), Prentice Hall, 2002.
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Anderson, M.G., and Richards, K.S., Slope Stability, John Wiley, 1987.
3.
Sherard, J.L., Woodward, R.J., Gizienski, R.J. and Clevenger, W.A., Earth and Earth rock
dam, John Wiley, 1963.
4.
5.
McCarthy, R.N., Essentials of Soil Mechanics and Foundations: Basic Geotechnics Sixth
Edition), Prentice Hall, 2002.
6.
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2. Hook, E and Bray, J., Rock slope Engineering, Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, U.K.
1981.
3. Hook, E and Brown, E.T., Underground Excavations in Rock, Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy, U.K. 1981.
4. Obvert, L. and Duvall, W., Rock Mechanics and the Design of structures in Rock, John
Wiley, 1967.
5. Bazant, Z.P., Mechanics of Geomaterials Rocks, Concrete and Soil, John Wiley and Sons,
Chichester, 1985.
6. Wittke, W., Rock Mechanics. Theory and Applications with case Histories, Springerverlag,
Berlin, 1990.
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Winkler, Elastic continuum, Two parameter elastic models, Elastic plastic behaviour, Time
dependent behaviour.
UNIT II BEAM ON ELASTIC FOUNDATION - SOIL MODELS
Infinite beam, Two parameters, Isotropic elastic half space, Analysis of beams of finite length,
Classification of finite beams in relation to their stiffness.
UNIT III PLATE ON ELASTIC MEDIUM
Infinite plate, Winkler, Two parameters, Isotropic elastic medium, Thin and thick plates,
Analysis of finite plates, rectangular and circular plates, Numerical analysis of finite plates,
simple solutions.
UNIT IV ELASTIC ANALYSIS OF PILE
Elastic analysis of single pile, Theoretical solutions for settlement and load distribution, Analysis
of pile group, Interaction analysis, Load distribution in groups with rigid cap.
UNIT V LATERALLY LOADED PILE
Load deflection prediction for laterally loaded piles, subgrade reaction and elastic analysis,
Interaction analysis, and pile raft system, solutions through influence charts.
REFERENCES
1. Hemsley, J.A, Elastic Analysis of Raft Foundations, Thomas Telford, 1998.
2. McCarthy, D.F. Essentials of Soil Mechanics and Foundations, basic geotechnics (6th
Edition), Prentice Hall, 2002.
3. Selvadurai, A.P.S., Elastic Analysis of Soil Foundation Interaction, Elsevier, 1979.
4. Poulos, H.G., and Davis, E.H., Pile Foundation Analysis and Design, John Wiley, 1980.
5. Scott, R.F. Foundation Analysis, Prentice Hall, 1981.
6. Structure Soil Interaction - State of Art Report, Institution of structural Engineers, 1978.
ACI 336, Suggested Analysis and Design Procedures for Combined Footings and Mats,
American Concrete Institute, Dehit, 1988.
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GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE
ENGINEERING
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UNIT IELEMENTS OF EARTHQUAKE SEISMOLOGY AND DYNAMICS
Theory of vibration - Basic Definition - Governing equation for single degree freedom system Forced vibrations - Rotating mass type excitation
Earthquake Response of
REFERENCES
1. KameswaraRao, N.S.V., Dynamics soil tests and applications, Wheeler Publishing - New
Delhi, 2000.
2. KrammerS.L., Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, prentice hall, international series,
Pearson Education (Singapore) Pvt. Ltd., 2004.
3. KameswaraRao, Vibration Analysis and Foundation Dynamics, wheeler Publishing, New
Delhi, 1998.
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stabilization organic and inorganic stabilization utilization of solid waste for soil
improvement.
UNIT V REMEDIATION OF CONTAMINATED SOILS
Rational approach to evaluate and remediate contaminated sites monitored natural attenuation
exsitu and insitu remediation solidification, bio remediation, incineration, soil washing,
electro kinetics, soil heating, verification, bio venting Ground water remediation pump and
treat, air sparging, reactive well.
REFERENCES
1.
2.
Daniel, B.E., Geotechnical Practice for waste disposal, Chapman and Hall, London,
1993.
3.
4.
Ott, W.R., Environmental Indices, Theory and Practice, Ann. Arbor, 1978.
5.
6.
ASTM Special Technical Publication 874, Hydraulic Barrier in Soil and Rock, 1985.
7.
Westlake, K., (1995), Landfill Waste pollution and Control, Albion Publishing Ltd.,
England, 1995.
8.
Lagrega, M.d., Buckingham, P.L., and Evans, J.C., Hazardous Waste Management,
McGraw Hill, Inc. Singapore, 1994.
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UNIT I AN OVERVIEW
Historical Development Types of Geosynthetics Geotextiles Geogrids- Geonets
Geomembranes Geocomposites Functions Reinforcement Separation Filtration
Drainage Barrier Functions.
2.
3.
Designing with Geosynthetics by Robert M. Koerner, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, UAS,1989.
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3.
Hand Book on Underreamed and Bored Compaction Pile Foundation, CBRI, Roorkee.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Swami Saran, Analysis and Design of Substructures, Oxford & IBH, New Delhi.
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REFERENCES:
1. Fredlund, D.G. and Rahardjo, H. Soil Mechanics for unsaturated soils, JohnWiley & Sons,
INC, New York.2003.
2. Ning Lu and William, J. Likes, Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, John Wiley &sons, INC. New
Jersey, 2004
3. Ng Charles, W.W., Menzies Bruce, Advanced unsaturated Soil Mechanismand Engineering,
Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.
4. Ning Lu, Laureano R. Hoyes and Lakshmi Reddi, Advances in unsaturatedsoil, seepage and
Environmental Geotechnics, ASCE., Geotechnical specialpublication No.148.
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UNIT I
Definitions and introduction to remote sensing, components of remote sensing system, active and
passive remote sensing, electromagnetic radiations and their interactions with the earth features
and atmosphere.Spectral windows and spectral signatures and their significance in remote
sensing. Radiometric quantities used in the collection of spectral signatures. Remote sensing
satellite orbits, image acquisition process, repeativity, row/path and ground swath and coverage.
UNIT II
Various remote sensing platforms like ground based, air borne and satellite based. Passive and
active remote sensors: Return Beam Videocon (RBV), Multi-Spectral Scanners (MSS), Thematic
Mapper (TM), push broom scanners, Linear Imaging Self Scanner (LISS), thermal infrared
scanning systems, radiometers, Radar, Lidar and SAR. Spectral and spatial resolution of various
remote sensors with special relevance to Indian Remote Sensing satellites. Different types of
remotely sensed data products.
UNIT III
Geometry, radiometry and pre-processing of remotely sensed imagery. Ground truth collection
and geo-referencing of imagery.Characteristics of photographic images.Colour, tone and texture,
photo-imterpretation keys, techniques of photo-interpretation.Digital image classification
techniques and extraction of thematic information.
UNIT IV
Global Positioning System (GPS) : Introduction & components of GPS, Space segment, control
segement and user segment, Elements of Satellite based Surveys Map datums, GPS receivers,
GPS observation methods and their advantages over conventional methods. Geographic
Information System (GIS)- Definition of GIS, Geographical concepts and terminology,
Components of GIS, Data acquisition, Raster and vector formats, scanners and digitizers.
Advantages of GPS and GIS in the storage thematic information extracted from remotely sensed
images.
UNIT V
Role of remote sensing and GIS in terrain investigation and advantages over conventional
mapping techniques.Extraction of topographic information from remotely sensed data and
generation of digital terrain model from stereo pairs of images. Resource mapping for
engineering project : selection of sites for construction materials, water resources, soil, buildings,
railways and highways etc. using remotely sensed data. Geological mapping for the geotechnical
investigations of soil strata.Monitoring of areas prone to landslides using remote sensing, digital
model and GIS. Application of visible, infra-red and microwave remote sensing for the
identification of soil types, grain size and moisture studies.
REFERENCES
1.
2.
3.
4.
Remote Sensing and image interpretation by LillesandT.M. and Kiefer R.W. John Wiley
and Sons. New York.
Introduction to remote sensing by J.B. Campbell, Taylor & Francis, London.
Introductory digital image processing by J.R. Jensen, Prentice Hall International
Ltd.,London.
Remote Sensing in Civil Engineering, by Kennie, T.J.M. and Matthews M.C. Surrey
University Press, Glasgow.
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