GIS in Water Resources
Fall 2005
General Course Information:
CE 394K.3 GIS in Water
Resources
Tuesday- Thursday,
ETC 5.148
Unique Number: 15065
Principal Instructor:
David Maidment
Office Address: CRWR Bldg. 119 PRC
Telephone Number: (512) 471-0065
Fax Number: (512) 471-0072
E-mail:maidment @ mail.utexas.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday -
Thursday,
Web Page: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment
Cooperating Instructor:
David Tarboton
Office Address: ENGR230,
Telephone Number: (435) 797-3172
E-mail:dtarb@cc.usu.edu
Office Hours: Monday 11.30 – 12.30, Wednesday 11.30 –
12.30, Thursday 1-2.
Web Page: http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb/
Course Description
Application of Geographic Information Systems in Water Resources. Digital
mapping of water resources information. Spatial coordinate systems. Terrain
analysis using digital elevation models. River and watershed networks. Soil and
and land use mapping. Flood hydrology modeling and flood plain mapping. Terrain
analysis for hydrologic modeling.
Integration of time series and
geospatial data.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing in engineering or a related discipline.
Course Objectives
The six course exercises are
intended to enable you to be able to:
n Plot a map of a hydrologic region including
measurement sites and associate it with time series of data measured at those
locations;
n Create a base map of a study region including
watersheds, streams, and aquifers by selecting features from regional maps;
n Manually create and edit points, lines and
areas, and associate attributes with those features;
n Interpolate measured data at points to form
raster surfaces over a region, and spatially average those surfaces over
polygons of interest;
n Do hydrologic calculations using map algebra
on raster grids;
n Build a geometric network for streams and
rivers;
n Apply the Arc Hydro data model to a set of
streams, watersheds, water bodies, monitoring points and time series of
information measured at those points;
n Analyze a digital elevation model of land
surface terrain to derive watersheds and stream networks;
n Develop a workflow model in ArcGIS
ModelBuilder;
n Apply a workflow model of nonpoint source
pollution;
Besides these six course
exercises, you will learn about:
n sources of geospatial data on the internet
n 3D representation in ArcGIS and ArcScene
n ArcGIS Geostatistical analyst
n Georeferencing aerial photographs on base map
images
n Using remotely sensed information in GIS
There are two web sites
maintained for this course at the
Method of Evaluation
Course grades will be based on a
weighted average of results as follows:
Homework 20%
Term Project Written Report 30%
Term Project Oral Presentation 10%
Midterm Exam 20%
Final Exam 20%
Letter grades will be
assigned as follows:
A = 90-100%
B = 80-90%
C = 70-80%
D = 60-70%
F < 60%
There will be no make-up exams or incomplete
grades in this course. I reserve the right to change the date of a quiz with
notice in advance.
Course/Instructor Evaluation Plan
Course/Instructor evaluation
forms will be distributed during one of the final two lecture periods. A
student from the class will be asked to distribute and collect the evaluation
forms, and to return them to the Department of Civil Engineering office on the
4th floor of ECJ. I also encourage students to speak to me during the semester,
and am open to suggestions relating to the course.
The
Term Project
The purposes of the
term project are:
1.
To enable
you to explore in-depth some aspect of the subject of personal interest to you
and to develop experience in the use of GIS technology to solve that problem.
2. To provide experience in the formulation, execution and presentation of original research, including the proper documentation of a GIS project.
3. To make an oral presentation and produce a report in html on the world wide web that will be informative to you and to your classmates.
The steps in carrying
out the project are:
1. If you don't already have a personal web page,
establish one at the Civil Engineering Learning Resource Center.
2. Prepare a 1-page proposal in html on your
website by Thurs Sept 29 specifying the objective of your project and outlining
how you plan to go about executing it. Notify the instructor by email that your
proposal is available and you will receive a response by email containing an
assessment of the scope of work that you propose. After making any revisions in
your proposal that seem necessary in the light of this assessment, this
proposal defines the scope of your term project.
3. Present a report orally in class and have a
progress report presented on your web page by Thurs Oct 27. You are expected to
make some progress by mid-semester but the main effort on your term project in
the later part of the course once you've learned more about the methods in the
course.
4. Present a final report orally in class near
the end of the semester (you will have
10 -12 minutes for your presentation) and present your term paper in
html on your web page by the last day of classes (Dec 9). It is critical that
you post your paper by this date because your classmates may need to read your
paper in order to complete their final exam.
If you would like to work in a group to pursue
a term project, that is fine, but you must carry out a particular section of
the project on which you will present your oral and written report.
A term paper library is available showing the
reports from more than 150 term papers done by students in this course from
Spring 1997 to Fall 20032004. See:
http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/giswr2005/docs/termpaperlibrary.htm
See: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/giswr2004/docs/termpaper.htm
Course Computer Environment
This
course uses the ArcGIS version 9.1 software available in the Civil Engineering
Learning Resource Center. The Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst extensions of
ArcGIS will also be used in the course. These programs run under the Windows NT
operating system. You may want to get a magnetic card so that you can enter the
LRC in the evenings or weekends. If you have access to the software elsewhere,
you can do the computer assignments at that location. If you work at the LRC,
you'll be assigned a standard amount of disk space for your personal use. You
should plan to back up your work on a zip drive to avoid complications from
lack of disk space in your personal area.
Course
The readings for this course will be taken
from: "Arc Hydro: GIS
for Water Resources” Ed by David R. Maidment, published by ESRI Press,
2002, $59.95 ISBN 1-58948-034-1, see http://gis.esri.com/esripress/display/index.cfm A recommended reference for further
information is: "Modeling
Our World", by M. Zeiler, ESRI Press, 1999, ISBN 1-879102-62-5 206 pages
$29.95, see http://gis.esri.com/esripress/display/index.cfm
Course Outline
Class Number |
Day and Date |
Subject |
1 |
Thurs Sep 1 |
Introduction to GIS in Water Resources |
2 |
Tues Sep 6 |
Introduction to ArcGIS |
3 |
Thurs Sept 8 |
Exercise 1: Creating a map with ArcGIS |
4 |
Tues Sept 13 |
Geodesy, map projections and coordinate systems |
5 |
Thurs Sept 15 |
Exercise 2: Building a base map of the Guadalupe basin |
6 |
Tues Sept 20 |
Spatial analysis using grids (David Tarboton) |
7 |
Thurs Sept 22 |
Exercise 3: Spatial analysis in hydrology (David Tarboton) |
8 |
Tues Sept 27 |
GIS data
sources for water resources
|
9 |
Thurs Sept 29 |
Network analysis and Arc Hydro frameworkTerm Project Proposals Posted on your Web Site |
10 |
Tues Oct 4 |
Exercise 4: Working with Networks and Arc Hydro |
11 |
Thurs Oct 6 |
Terrain
analysis using grids (David Tarboton)
|
12 |
Tues Oct 11 |
Exercise 5: Watershed and Stream Network Delineation Exercise. (David Tarboton) |
13 |
Thurs Oct 13 |
Advanced terrain analysis concepts (David Tarboton) |
14 |
Tues Oct 18 |
Review |
15 |
Thurs Oct 20 |
Midterm Exam |
16 |
Tues Oct 25 |
Model Builder |
17 |
Thurs Oct 27 |
Exercise 6: Nonpoint source pollution modeling |
18 |
Tues Nov 1 |
Reports on Progress with Term Papers |
19 |
Thurs Nov 3 |
Geostatistical analysis |
20 |
Tues Nov 8 |
3D Objects, ArcScene and Groundwater |
21 |
Thurs Nov 10 |
Georeferencing aerial photographs on base maps |
22 |
Tues Nov 15 |
Time and Space in ArcGIS |
23 |
Thurs Nov 17 |
Remote Sensing |
24 |
Tues Nov 22 |
Presentation of Term Papers |
|
|
Thanksgiving!! |
25 |
Tues Nov 29 |
Presentation of Term Papers |
26 |
Thurs Dec 1 |
Presentation of Term Papers |
27 |
Tues Dec 6 |
Presentation of Term Papers |
28 |
Thurs Dec 8 |
Presentation of Term Papers Course evaluation, discussion of final exam |