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Seat No.: Enrolment No.:
GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
BPLAN SEMESTER • EXAMINATION WINTER 2016
Subject Code: 1055505 Date:26/10/2016
Subject Name: Geo-Informatics for Planning
Time:10:30 AM to 12:30 PM Total Marks: 50
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1 From the list given below identify which is spatial data and attribute data
A. Cities
B. Hotels
C. Roads Type
D. Rivers
E. Lakes
F. Name
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Define following terms: (Any Four)
Remote Sensing
Spatial Resolution
Information
Information System
Map Projection
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Q.2 Select the correct full form of abbreviation (Any five)
GIS
Geographic Intelligent Science Geographic Information System
ii) IFOV
Instantaneous Field of View Inter File of Varity
iii) NNRMS
Natural nation Ruler
Management System
National Natural Resources
Management System
iv) DBMS
Data Base Management System Drastic Barcode Management
System
NUIS
National Urban Information
System
Natural Urban Information
System
vi) RS
Remote Sensing Remote Science
vii) EMR
Entopic Management and
Registration
Electro-magnetic Radiation
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What are the Limitation of Traditional Surveying? 05
OR
Explain Geo-Stationary and Sun-Synchronous Satellites 05
Q.3 Explain the Components of a GIS in detail 05
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Explain any five applications of GIS 05
OR
Q.3 Calculate the area for each land use from the given table below. Here the cell size
of each pixel is 30 x 30 Meters
Class Name Number of pixel Area in square meters
Agriculture 828
Urban 378
Waste land 272
Water Body 635
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Write five Applications of Raster data with explanation 05
Q.4 Write a short note on Vector Data 05
Write Advantage and Disadvantage of Vector data 05
OR
Q.4 Write how where thematic mapping can be used in studying the urban sprawl 05
Explain in detail using diagrams how survey data can be integrated in shape files 05
Q.5

Explain any five terms of the data types in a Geodatabase (Any five)
I. Feature Class
II. Feature Dataset
III. Table
IV. Geodatabase
V. Topology
VI. Relationship class
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