GIS and Remote Sensing in Utility Management

• Description of all essential services and utilities,
• Database development and DataAcquisition,
• Acquiring and integrating geo-spatial data,
• Spatial Databases

• The meaning and nature of Point features over space
•  Measuring Central tendency
  • Mean Centre, Weighted Mean Centre, Median Centre
•  Dispersion of Point features Quadrat Analysis, Nearest Neighbour statistics
  •  Standard distance, Standard Deviation Ellipse
•  Spatial Autocorrelation of Point features
  •  Geary’s Ratio
  •  Moran’s I Index

• The meaning, nature and characteristics of Line features over space
• Directional Mean and Circular Variance
• Network Analysis
  • Connectivity or Topology
  • Proximity Analysis

• The meaning of spatial relationships and spatial dependency
• Spatial AutocorrelationBivariate Spatial Autocorrelation
  • Geary’s Ratio
  • Moran’s I Index
• Buffering: Point, Line, Area buffers
• Overlay

• Buffering: Point, Line, Area buffers

Overlay

Union, Intersect, Symmetrical Difference, Identity

• • Union, Intersect, Symmetrical Difference, Identity
  • Point-in-Polygon, Line-in-Polygon, Polygon-in-Polygon

• Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Digital Terrain Model (DTM)
• Contouring, Hill Shading and Perspective View (3D viewing)
• Slope and Aspect Analysis
• Geometry ofAerial Photographs
• Aerial PhotoInterpretation
• Image pre-proccessing and enhancement
• Information extraction
• Image classification
• Modelling in utility applications,
• Infrastructure aims and objectives,
• Environmental law andregulations governing infrastructure utilities,
• Modern infrastructure tools
• Fundamentals of GPS
• Components of GPS,
• Planning your GPS Project
• GPS surveying methods and accuracy Factors
• Equipment Setup –Handheld GPS Receivers
• Equipment Setup –GPS Enabled Phones (Iphone, Andoid, BlackBerry, Nokia etc)
• Data Collection
• Exporting GPS data to GIS

• Application of  Spatial analysis in utility management: examples

• Spatial decison support systems

• Digital Image Processing and classification

• Modelling in utility applications,
• Infrastructure aims and objectives,
• Environmental law andregulations governing infrastructure utilities
• Modern infrastructure tools

• Fundamentals of GPS
• Components of GPS,
• Planning your GPS Project
• GPS surveying methods and accuracy Factors
• Equipment Setup –Handheld GPS Receivers
• Equipment Setup –GPS Enabled Phones (Iphone, Andoid, BlackBerry, Nokia etc)
• Data Collection
• Exporting GPS data to GIS 

• Case studies I: Relating to Electricity, Gas, Water supply, Sewerage system
• Case studies II: Solid waste disposal, Telecommunication, Public health and safety, rimeAnalysis
• Familiarization with Spatial Analysis Software.
• Spatial analysis: Query, Identifying, measuring, query by location/attribute
• Measuring Central tendency; Mean Centre, Weighted Mean Centre, MedianCentre, Standard distance, Standard Deviation Ellipse
• Quadrat Analysis, Nearest Neighbour statistics
• Spatial Autocorrelation of Point features; Geary’s Ratio, Moran’s I Index
• Network analysis
• Vector Analysis; Buffering: Point, Line, Area buffers
• Overlay
• Surface Analysis; Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Digital Terrain Model(DTM), Contouring, Hill Shading and Perspective View (3D viewing), Slopeand Aspect Analysis.
• Loading of image data, identification of objects on video display, study ofhistograms
• Image enhancement techniques: contrast enhancement, band ratioing, edgeenhancement, filtering, density slicing
• Image/photo interpretation: recognition and detection of objects
• Image classification techniques: supervised and unsupervised
• Accuracy analysis
• Ground data collection for training sets for classification of image

Site Suitability mapping and locating and relocating of infrastructure facilities related to:-

• Electricity and Gas,
• Water supply and Sewerage system,
• Telecommunications and Transport
• Site suitable for solid waste disposal, and
• Accessibility mapping of health care services.