Monthly Archives: April 2017

Concept and Applications of Digital Elevation Model (DEM)

Posted on April 27, 2017 by

A digital elevation model (DEM) is a digital model or 3D representation of a terrain’s surface — commonly for a planet (including Earth), moon, or asteroid — created from terrain elevation data. In most cases the term digital surface model represents the earth’s surface and includes … Continue reading →

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Surveying : Dumpy Level- Importance and Use

Posted on April 27, 2017 by

What is Surveying? Knowing about the relative position of various objects, determination of distances between them, measurement of angles, measurement of height, determination of boundaries and relative heights of various points come under the purview of surveying. It is very … Continue reading →

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Hierarchical Levels of Planning Regions

Posted on April 24, 2017 by

  In multi level planning there is certain hierarchy of regions. WE can classify it in many ways depending on chosen criterion/criteria. One such classification on size criterion is here.  Macro Regions Macro region is naturally bigger. Macro region can … Continue reading →

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Hierarchical Levels of Planning

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The hierarchy of public activity planning and regional development planning is by and large based on a functional division of labor between the different levels. At any level types of plans physical planning shares more extensively similarities both in substantial … Continue reading →

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