Contents
1.0 INTRODUCTION 10
1.01 BACKGROUND 10
1.01.01 SOIL PROPERTIES 10
1.01.02 MAPPING 11
1.01.03 GIS 11
1.01.04 GPS 11
1.02 NEED OF STUDY 12
1.03 OBJECTIVES: 12
1.04 SCOPE OF THE STUDY: 12
1.05 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY: 12
1.06 RESEARCH DESIGN: 13
1.07 TIMELINE OF THESIS 13
1.08 DESCRIPTION OF STUDY AREA 14
1.08.01 LOCATION 14
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW: 15
2.01 GIS APPLICATIONS IN SOIL DATA ANALYSIS 15
2.02 APPLICATION OF GIS-GPS FOR MAPPING SOIL INDEX PROPERTIES 15
2.03. PROPERTY MAPPING OF KAZHAKUTTAM WARD USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
SYSTEM (GIS 15
2.04 GIS AND DISTRIBUTED WATERSHED MODELS. 16
3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 17
3.01 DATA COLLECTION 17
3.02 DATA COLLECTION 17
3.03 DATA SET CREATION 18
3.04 DENSITY OF DATA 20
3.05 ALTITUDE AND ABSOLUTE LEVEL IN DATABASE 21
3.06 NEAREST NEIGHBOUR METHOD 22
3.06.01 NATURAL NEIGHBOUR INTERPOLATION 22
3.07 GIS METHODOLOGY 23
3.08 DEM OF AHMEDABAD 24
3.09 LAYER WISE THEMATIC MAP GENERATION 25
3.09.01 VALIDATION OF MAP WITH POINT SAMPLING TOOL 25
3.10 RESEARCH FLOW CHART 26
4.0 RESULT 27
4.01 SAND CONTENT (%) 28
4.02 COHESION 29
4.03 ANGLE OF INTER FRICTION 30
4.04 GRAVEL 31
4.05 LIQUID LIMIT 32
4.06 SPT N_VALUE 33
4.07 SILT_CLAY 34
4.08 SPECIFIC GRAVITY 35
4.09 PLASTIC LIMIT 36
4.10 VOID RATIO 37
5.0 PREDICTED DATA CONFIDENCE 38
5.01 PREDICTED DATA CONFIDENCE 39
5.03 RMSE AND MAE RESULTS TO CHECK CONFIDENCE 40
5.03 SELECTION FOR EACH PROPERTY 42
5.04 SUGGESTED METHOD SELECTION 43
5.05 CONCLUSION 43
5.06 FURTHER SCOPE 43
BIBLIOGRAPHY 44
REFERENCE 44