GIS in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2003

 

Course Outline

 

Class Number

Day and Date

Subject

1

Thurs Aug 28

Introduction to GIS in Water Resources

2

Tues Sept 2

Introduction to ArcGIS

3

Thurs Sept 4

Exercise 1: Creating a map with ArcGIS

4

Tues Sept 9

GIS data sources for water resources

5

Thurs Sept 11

Geodesy, map projections and coordinate systems

6

Tues Sept 16

Exercise 2: Building a base map of the Guadalupe basin

7

Thurs Sept 18

Spatial analysis using grids  David Tarboton

8

Tues Sept 23

Exercise 3:  Spatial analysis in hydrology David Tarboton

9

Thurs Sept 25

Terrain analysis using grids David Tarboton

Term Project Proposals Posted on your Web Site

10

Tues Sept 30

Exercise 4:  TauDEM Watershed and Stream Network Delineation Exercise.  David Tarboton

11

Thurs Oct 2

Network analysis and Arc Hydro framework

12

Tues Oct 7

Exercise 5: Working with Networks and Arc Hydro

13

Thurs Oct 9

New approaches to hydrologic modeling in ArcGIS

14

Tues Oct 14

Review

15

Thurs Oct 16

Midterm Exam

16

Tues Oct 21

Integration of Geospatial and Temporal Information

17

Thurs Oct 23

Exercise 6:  Hydrologic Modeling using Arc Hydro

18

Tues Oct 28

Linking Arc Hydro with water resources models

Reports on Progress with Term Papers

19

Thurs Oct 30

Linking Arc Hydro with water resources models

20

Tues Nov 4

Terrain analysis using Triangulated Irregular Networks

21

Thurs Nov 6

Flood plain mapping

22

Tues Nov 11

LIDAR and Remote Sensing

23

Thurs Nov 13

Nonpoint source pollution

24

Tues Nov 18

Presentation of Term Papers

25

Thurs Nov 20

Presentation of Term Papers

26

Tues Nov 25

Presentation of Term Papers

 

 

Thanksgiving!!

27

Tues Dec 2

Presentation of Term Papers

28

Thurs Dec 4

Presentation of Term Papers

Course evaluation, discussion of final exam