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    This document contains a 10-part final exam for a GIS and RS course covering multiple choice, true/false, and short answer questions. The multiple choice section tests concepts like the definition of GIS, digitizing, spatial data types, map projections, and raster data models. The true/false section covers topics such as the influence of human factors on GIS, map projections, coordinate systems, datums, and data storage. The short answer questions define remote sensing, discuss the strengths of raster vs vector data, explain spectral, spatial and temporal resolution, differentiate between attribute and spatial data, define geo-referencing, and distinguish between discrete maps and continuous map surfaces.

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    This document contains a 10-part final exam for a GIS and RS course covering multiple choice, true/false, and short answer questions. The multiple choice section tests concepts like the definition of GIS, digitizing, spatial data types, map projections, and raster data models. The true/false section covers topics such as the influence of human factors on GIS, map projections, coordinate systems, datums, and data storage. The short answer questions define remote sensing, discuss the strengths of raster vs vector data, explain spectral, spatial and temporal resolution, differentiate between attribute and spatial data, define geo-referencing, and distinguish between discrete maps and continuous map surfaces.

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    Bahir Dar University

    Institute of Technology
    School of civil and water resource engineering

    GIS and RS Final-Exam Time allowed: 2:30hr


    Date: June, 2014 Max. Mark: 60%

    Part A: Multiple-choice question (2 points each)

    Choose the best or most appropriate answer(s) to the question

    1. GIS is 'a set of tools for collecting, storing, retrieving at will, transforming, and
    displaying spatial data from the real world? Which of the following functionality missed
    out by the above definition

    a) Analysis

    b) Mapping

    c) Re-projection

    2. Which of the following are true?

    a) Digitizing is defined as converting aerial photographs into maps

    b) Digitizing involves tracing map features into a computer

    c) A keyboard cannot be used to digitize maps, only to enter attribute information

    3. Which of the following is not an example of spatial data?

    a) Lines showing the route of linear objects

    b) Polygons showing the area occupied by a particular land use or variable

    c) Times of particular events

    4. Which are reasons for wanting to project the Earth’s surface onto a plane, rather than deal
    with the curved surface

    a) The paper used to output GIS maps is flat

    b) Flat maps are scanned and digitized to create GIS databases

    c) The Earth has to be projected to see all of it at once

    d) It’s much easier to measure distance on a plane


    Bahir Dar University
    Institute of Technology
    School of civil and water resource engineering
    5. Which is true about raster data model;

    a) This data type is more suitable for representation of the variation and processing
    of continuous phenomenon

    b) Uses grid to represent portion of the real world

    c) Variation of phenomenon represented by the change in the values of cells

    Part B: True or False (2 points each)

    Choose True or False for the following statements

    1. Human factors influence the success of GIS as a decision support tool

    2. Reality can be represented in GIS as a series of layers or as objects

    3. Latitude: "Angle made by a perpendicular to a given point on the surface of a sphere or


    ellipsoid representing the Earth and the plane of the Equator”

    4. GIS differs from other information systems because they contain spatial data
    5. Geodesy is a science of modeling the shape of the earth

    6. Map projections– transformation of coordinates from a flat, paper map to a curved Earth.

    7. Ellipsoid– 3-D model of the earth (flattened)

    8. Spherical or geographic coordinate system is a system of locations on a plane.

    9. Geodetic Datum is a set of measured or calculated points on the Earth and it provides a frame
    of reference for measuring locations on the Earth or “places” the geographic coordinate
    system on the ellipsoid.

    10. An advantage of raster data storage is the smaller amount of data to be stored.
    Bahir Dar University
    Institute of Technology
    School of civil and water resource engineering
    Part C:Short Answer (3 points each)

    1. Define remote sensing


    2. What are 3 important advantages those remote sensing offers over other methods of data
    collection?
    3. Projecting from a model of the earth (i.e. reference globe) to a flat surface necessarily
    entails distortions. Identify the four main properties that one might wish to preserve and
    using the concept of scale factor explains the distortions that might arise between
    different parts of a map
    4. Identify some of the major types of hybrid database structure used in GIS and explain
    why hybrid structures are so frequently used
    5. ‘Raster is faster, but vector is corrector’. Discuss the relative strengths and weakness of
    raster and vector data structures in GIS
    6. Satellite data has a spatial, a temporal and a spectral resolution. Explain briefly what
    these three types mean
    7. How does a Landsat satellite differentiate between objects on Earth's surface?
    8. Explain the difference between attribute and spatial data, give examples
    9. What is Geo-referencing? Write the steps for Geo-referencing

    10. What is the distinction between a discrete “map” and a continuous “map surface.” Give
    some examples for each types of map.

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