CE 394K.3 GIS in Water Resources

Fall Semester 2001

University of Texas at Austin

Instructor: David R. Maidment

Course Videos, course syllabus, course outline and student assignments are viewable on the secure course website at http://pro.engr.utexas.edu

Course Syllabus: syllabus.doc

List of Term Project Proposals: temproj2001list.htm

Final Exam: gisfinal2001.htm

Term Paper Library: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/giswr2001/docs/termpaper.htm

Utah State University course web site: http://moose.cee.usu.edu/giswr

Session 1 (Thurs, 30 August): Introduction to GIS in Water Resources. Review the course curriculum, course outline. Lecture from slides.

Lecture slides: lecture1.ppt

Session 2: (Tues, 4 September) Introduction to ArcGIS. The basic elements of ArcGIS: Arc Map and ArcCatalog. Functions of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo. Extensions of ArcGIS: Spatial analyst, 3-D analyst, Geostatistical analyst. Object classes and feature classes as means to store data in a geodatabase.

Reading – Pages 1-25 of the ESRI book “What is ArcGIS?” File: What_is_ArcGIS.pdf Lecture slides: lecture 2.ppt

Session 3: (Thurs 6 September) Exercise 1: Introduction to ArcGIS. Introduces ArcMap and ArcCatalog using pan evaporation data from Texas. Includes creation of a new personal geodatabase from shapefile and coverage data, and integration of maps from ArcGIS with graphs from Excel and presentation in Word. File: Introduction to ArcGIS

Session 4: (Tues 11 September) Data sources for GIS in Water Resources. Listing of Data Sources: DataSource.htm Powerpoint file Datasources.ppt.

Session 5: (Thurs 13 September). Exercise 2: Building a Watershed Base Map. Exercise text: Basemap.htm Exercise data: Guadalupe.zip

Session 6: (Tues 18 September) Geodesy, Map Projections and Coordinate Systems. Powerpoint files Mapproj.ppt

Session 7: (Thurs 20 September) Exercise 3: Map projections and coordinate systems. Exercise text: Mapproj.htm Exercise data: Mapproj.zip

Session 8: (Tues 25 September) Network modeling in GIS. Powerpoint file: network.ppt Reading material network.doc

Session 9: (Thurs 27 September) National Hydrography Dataset and Networks in ArcGIS Exercise text: NHDNetwork.htm Exercise data: Networks.zip

Session 10: (Tues 2 October) Grid-based modeling with Digital Elevation Models by Dr David Tarboton. Powerpoint file: grid_dgt.ppt Reading material grid.doc Lecture materials from Utah State University: http://moose.cee.usu.edu/giswr/session10.html Reading: Chap. 9 in Modeling our World: “Cell-based Modeling with Rasters”.

Session 11: (Thurs 4 October) Exercise 5: Watershed and stream network delineation by Dr David Tarboton. The exercise file and zip files for data are available at: http://moose.cee.usu.edu/giswr/session11/ex5.html The files are available locally at the LRC: ex5.doc

Session 12: (Tues 9 October) Surface representation using Triangulated Irregular Networks Powerpoint file: TIN.ppt Reading: “Modeling our World” Chap. 10 Surface modeling with TINs. Reference: Nelson et al. "Adaptive Tessellation Method for Creating TINs from GIS Data", Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 2-9, 1999.

Session 13: (Thurs 11 October) Floodplain mapping with TIN’s Powerpoint file: Floodplain.ppt Reading material Channel.doc

Session 14: (Tues 16 October) Review for Midterm Exam. Review sheet: Review1.htm Review slides: Review.ppt

Session 15: (Thurs 18 October) Midterm exam

Session 16: (Tues 23 October) Slides: demhydro.ppt Lecture by Dr Tarboton on Digital Elevation Based Hydrologic Modeling – see http://moose.cee.usu.edu/giswr/session16/

Session 17: (Thurs 25 October) Slides: sinmap.ppt Lecture by Dr Tarboton Terrain stability mapping using the ArcView Sinmap extension – see http://moose.cee.usu.edu/giswr/session17/ for video and readings

Session 18: (Tues 30 October) ArcGIS Hydro data model. Powerpoint file archydro.ppt Analysis diagram archydroanalysis.ppt

Session 19: (Thurs 1 November) Exercise 6, part 1: Application of the ArcGIS Hydro data model -- Preparation of the data. Exercise file: ArcHydroPart1.htm Data file ArcHydro.zip

Session 20: (Tues 6 November) GIS and Flood Hydrology Modeling. Powerpoint files: HydroModel1.ppt Hydromodel2.ppt

Session 20: (Thurs 8 November) Exercise 6, Part 2: Application of the ArcGIS Hydro data model – Schema and Tools. Exercise file ArcHydroPart2.htm Data file ArcHydroPart2.zip

Session 21: (Tues 13 November) Review of Midterm Quiz, and Pollutant loads to Corpus Christi Bay system Powerpoint file: Corpus.ppt

Session 22: (Thurs 15 November) LIDAR mapping of terrain surfaces Powerpoint Slides: LIDAR.ppt