CE 394K.3 GIS in Water Resources

Fall Semester 2005

University of Texas at Austin

Instructor: David R. Maidment

 

 

Course Videos are viewable on the website at http://www.utwired.engr.utexas.edu/maidment/ 

Course Syllabus: syllabus.htm

 

Term Project Presentations: TermProjList.htm

 

Term Project Instructions: TPInstructions.doc     TPInstructions.htm

 

Term Paper Library: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/giswr2005/docs/termpaperlibrary.htm

 

Utah State University Site: http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb/giswr/2005

  

Setting up your course web site: https://webspace.utexas.edu/

 

Arc Hydro Tools version 9   ArcHydroTools.zip

 

Final Exam: giswrfinal2005.doc   giswrfinal2005.htm

 

 Session 1 (Thurs, 1 September): Introduction to GIS in Water Resources.  Review the course curriculum, course outline.  Lecture slides: lecture12005.ppt   

 

Session 2 (Tues 6 September): Introduction to ArcGIS  Lecture slides: lecture22005.ppt  Reference materials: ArcGIS91.pdf   SpatialAnalyst.pdf  Reading Assignment:  Arc Hydro pp. 1-25

 

Session 3 (Thurs 8 September): Exercise 1: Mapping Hurricane Katrina  Word document: KatrinaMap.doc   Html KatrinaMap.htm  Data files katrina.mdb

 

Session 4 (Tues 13 September): Geodesy, map projections and coordinate systems  Slides: Mapproj.ppt   Handout: EarthDistance.doc  EarthDistance.htm

 

Session 5 (Thurs 15 September)  Exercise 2: Building a Base Map  Files: Ex22005.doc  Ex22005.htm  Data File: Guadalupe.zip

 

Session 6 (Tues 20 September)  Spatial Analysis using Grids   Slides: Spatial.ppt

 

Session 7 (Thurs 22 September)  Exercise 3 Spatial Analysis  Ex32005.doc   Ex32005.htm  Data files Ex3.zip

 

Session 8 (Tues 27 September) Data Sources for GIS in Water Resources  DataSources.htm Slides DataSources.ppt

 

Session 9 (Thurs 29 September) Hydro Networks in GIS   Slides:  HydroNetwork.ppt Solutions for Ex1 Ex1Soln.ppt  Reading Assignment:  Arc Hydro pp. 25-53, 117-139

 

Session 10 (Tues 4 October)  Exercise 4 Building an  Arc Hydro with Time Series Geodatabase    Ex42005.doc  Ex42005.htm  Ex4.zip   Reading Assignment: Arc Hydro pp. 141 – 166 (Chap 7 on Time Series).   Slides on Scale, Resolution and Accuracy  Scale.ppt  Overview of Exercise 4  Overview.ppt

 

Session 11 (Thurs 6 October)  Watershed and stream network delineation  DEMWatershedDelination.ppt

 

Session 12 (Tues 11 October)  Exercise 5 Watershed and Stream Network Delineation   Ex52005.doc  Ex52005.htm  Ex52005.zip  Solution dataset for up to the Adjoint Catchment part  Ex5part.zip

 

Session 13 (Thurs 13 October)   Advanced Terrain Analysis Concepts  TerrainAnalysis.ppt   Personal exercises: TauDEM on the Logan River LoganRiverExercise.doc  Exercise on use of VBA in ArcGIS  VBAExercise.doc

 

Session 14 (Tues 18 October)  Review for Midterm Quiz   Review2005.doc  Review2005.htm  Slides: Review2005.ppt

 

Session 15 (Thurs 20 October)  Midterm Quiz

 

Session 16 (Tues 25 October)  CUAHSI Hydrologic Information Systems  CUAHSIHIS.ppt  ExecutiveSummary.pdf

 

Session 17 (Thurs 27 October) Bacterial TMDL model and schematic processor  BacterialModel.ppt   Journal article on schematic processor: SchematicProcessor.doc

 

Session 18 (Tues 1 November) Review of Term Project Progress  TermProjProp.htm

 

Session 19 (Thurs 3 November)  Exercise 6: Bacterial Load Modeling in Copano Bay  BacterialModel.doc  BacterialModel.htm BacterialModel.zip

Replacement files for SchemaLink and SchemaNode   SchemaData.mdb

 

Session 20 (Tues 8 November)  Groundwater and ArcScene  Groundwater.ppt   GroundwaterExercise.pdf   GroundwaterExercise.zip

 

Session 21 (Thurs 10 November)  Modeling surfaces using TIN and raster interpolation from points  Surfaces.ppt  GeostatExercise.htm  GeostatExercise.zip

 

Session 22 (Tues 15 November)  GIS for Instream Flow Assessment (Dr Thomas Hardy, Utah State University)  InstreamFlow.ppt

 

Session 23 (Thurs 17 November)  River channel morphology model (Dr Venkatesh Merwade)  Channel.ppt

 

Session 24  (Tues 22 November)  Term paper presentations: Regional Issues

 

Session 25 (Tues 29 November) Term paper presentations:  Water Resources

 

Session 26 (Thurs 1 December) Term paper presentations: Water Quality

 

Session 27 (Tues 6 December) Utah term paper presentations (see Sessions 25 and 26 at http://www.engineering.usu.edu/cee/faculty/dtarb/giswr/2005/ for the presentation videos and http://www.engineering.usu.edu/cee/faculty/dtarb/giswr/2005/Students.html for the powerpoint slides for each presentation)

Session 28 (Tues 13 December) Term paper presentations: Air Quality and Transportation