CIVE
498/ CIVE898
BSEN 496/BSEN 896
GIS Water Resources, Fall 2006
General Course
Information:
CIVE
498: Call #: 8234; Section #: 003; CIVE 898: Call #: 8235; Section #: 003
BSEN 496: Call #: 9147; BSEN 896: Call #: 9149
Tuesday- Thursday,
12:30-2PM
Lectures: Room: 116
L.W. Chase Hall
Lab: Watershed
modeling Lab, Room 18, L.W. Chase Hall
Principal
Instructors:
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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, 2-4 PM |
David Tarboton Office Address: ENGR230, Telephone Number: (435)
797-3172 E-mail:dtarb@cc.usu.edu Office Hours: Monday 11.30 – 12.30, Thursday 1-2. |
UNL Instructors:
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Ayse Irmak Office Address: 253 L.W. Chase Hall Telephone Number: (402) 472-5351 E-mail:
airmak2@unl.edu Office Hours: Thursday, 2-4 PM http://bse.unl.edu/About/Faculty/Irmak,%20Ayse.htm |
Wayne Woldt Office Address: 249 L.W. Chase Hall Telephone Number: (402) 472-8656 E-mail:
wwoldt@unl.edu Office Hours: Thursday, 2-4 PM |
Online
course from the
USU
website: http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb/giswr/2006
UNL
website: http://bse.unl.edu/airmak/giswr/2006/
UNL Student Term Paper Presentations
Great Plains
Environmental and Hydrological Observatory (GPEHO)
Data
Download for GPEHO:
ftp://calmit.unl.edu/pub/outgoing/RepublicanObservatory
Texas Class Video Website: http://www.utwired.engr.utexas.edu/maidment/
Course
Syllabus: Syllabus.html
Class
Outline and Schedule: Schedule.html
Lecture
Materials
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Class # |
Day & Date |
Subject |
Lecture slides |
Reference Materials |
Breeze Lecture Recording |
Data files |
Addendum |
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Session 1 |
Thurs Aug 31 |
Introduction to GIS in Water Resources; Review the course
curriculum, course outline |
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Session 2 |
Tues Sept 5 |
Introduction to ArcGIS Software |
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Session 3 |
Thurs Sept 7 |
Exercise 1: Creating a map with ArcGIS |
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Session 4 |
Tues Sept 12 |
Geodesy, map projections and coordinate systems |
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Session 5 |
Thurs Sept 14 |
Exercise 2: Building a base map of the Guadalupe basin |
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Session 6 |
Tues Sept 19 |
GIS data sources for water resources |
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Session 7 |
Thurs Sept 21 |
Spatial analysis using grids |
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Session 8 |
Tues Sept 26 |
Exercise 3: Spatial analysis in hydrology
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Ex32006.doc
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BLR8
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Ex3.zip
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Session 9 |
Thurs Sept 28 |
Digital Elevation Based
Watershed and Stream Network Delineation
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DemWatershedDelineation.ppt
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BLR9
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Session 10 |
Tues Oct 3 |
Exercise 4:
Watershed and Stream Network Delineation. |
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Session 11 |
Thurs Oct 5 |
Advanced terrain analysis
concepts
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Dinf.ppt
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BLR11
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Session 12 |
Tues Oct 10 |
Network analysis, Arc Hydro, and NHDPlus |
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Session 13 |
Thurs Oct 12 |
NHDPlus and Flow Networks |
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Session 14 |
Tues Oct 17 |
Review
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Review2006.
ppt
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Review
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Session 15 |
Thurs Oct 19 |
Midterm Exam
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Exam solution sheet
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Session 16 |
Tues Oct 24 |
Hydrologic Information Systems (HIS) |
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Session 17 |
Thurs Oct 26 |
Arc Hydro Groundwater Data Model |
Gil Strassberg’s Dissertation: Strassberg.pdf |
Teach yourself exercise script: GroundwaterExercise.pdf. |
Teach yourself exercise data: GroundwaterExercise.zip. |
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Session 18 |
Tues Oct 31 |
Creation of new geographic
features
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DataCreation.htm Datacreation.doc
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Exercise 6: Building an Arc Hydro with Time Series Geodatabase Ex62006.doc
Ex62006.htm
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BLR18
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Ex6Data.zip
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Session 19 |
Thurs Nov 2 |
Nonpoint source pollution modeling |
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Example
Exercise BacteriaModel.doc |
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Session 20 |
Tues Nov 7 |
Modeling surfaces using TIN and raster interpolation from
points |
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Example
Exercise GeostatExercise.zip |
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Session 21 |
Thurs Nov 9 |
Remote Sensing Applications in Agricultural & Natural
Resources |
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Session 22 |
Tues Nov 14 |
Water Resources Issues in |
First Ministers
Briefing, Nov 7, 06 |
Murray-Darling
Basin Initiative |
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Session 23 |
Thurs Nov 16 |
CUAHSI Hydrologic Information Systems Workshop in |
http://www.utwired.engr.utexas.edu/maidment/
where there are four video files that show the session on Thursday morning |
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Session 24 |
Tues Nov 21 |
Presentation of Term Papers |
Texas Student Presentations |
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Thanksgiving!! |
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Session 25 |
Tues Nov 28 |
Presentation of Term Papers |
UNL Student Presentations |
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Session 26 |
Thurs Nov 30 |
Presentation of Term Papers |
UNL Student Presentations |
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Session 27 |
Tues Dec 5 |
Presentation of Term Papers |
UNL Student Presentations |
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Session 28 |
Thurs Dec 7 |
Presentation of Term Papers Course evaluation, discussion of final exam |
UNL Student Presentations |
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Session 29 |
Fri Dec 15 |
Final exam due by 5PM on
Friday, December 15 |
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Assignments
and due dates
Exercise 1: Due Thursday Sept 14. Introduction to ArcGIS, Data Files: Ex12006.zip, Exercise 1 Addendum: Introduction to Google Earth, Addendum
Data Files: Ex12006Google.zip.
Homework 1.
Due Tuesday Sept 19. Solution
for homework 1.
Exercise 2: Due Thursday Sept
21. ex22006.doc Data
files: Guadalupe.zip. Exercise 2 solution.
Exercise 3: Due Tuesday Oct 10.
Spatial Analysis Exercise. Ex32006.doc. Data
files: Ex3.zip. Here is a note from Dr. Tarboton.
[The zip file Ex3reclass.zip
contains the result from the reclassification 'reclass by ASCII table' on page
31 of the exercise that some are having trouble with. If you are unable to get
the reclass to work, download this zip file, unzip the contents and use the
grid 'threclass' that it to continue on with this exercise.] Exercise 3
solution.
Exercise 4: Due Thursday Oct 12.
Watershed and Stream Network Delineation. Exercise: Ex42006.doc, Data files: Ex4.zip.
Exercises 4 solution.
Homework 2. Due Thursday Oct 12. Watershed Delineation by Hand. Solution for homework 2.
Exercise
5: Due Tuesday Oct 17. NHDPlus and Flow Networks. Exercise: Ex52006.doc, Data files: Ex5.zip.
Exercise
6: Building an Arc Hydro with Time Series Geodatabase. Exercise: Ex62006.doc, Ex62006.htm.
Data files: Ex6Data.zip. For those who do not have ArcInfo, also need
to download following geodatabase as well SanMarcos_ArcHydro
Past exams given by Drs.
Maidement and Tarboton
Geospatial OneStop for
“National Map” in
Conservation and Survey Division: http://csd.unl.edu/default.asp
Remote sensing data (CALMIT): http://nebraskaview.unl.edu/neview02.htm
Tools/Softwares for the class