CE 394K.3 GIS in Water Resources

Fall Semester 2007

University of Texas at Austin

Instructors: David R. Maidment, Christopher Neale and David G. Tarboton

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

Course Syllabus: syllabus.htm

Course Schedule: schedule.htm

Term Project Proposals: TermProjectList.htm

Term Paper Instructions: TPInstructions.doc

Final Exam: GISFinal2007.doc

Solution to Final Exam: FinalSoln.doc

Term Paper Library: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/giswr2007/docs/termpaperlibrary.htm

Files on Webspace: Webspace.doc

Utah State University Site: http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb/giswr/2007

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

Session 1 (Thurs, Aug 31): Introduction to GIS in Water Resources. Review the course curriculum, course outline. Lecture12007.ppt

Session 2 (Tues Sept 4): Introduction to ArcGIS (Dr Neale). Lecture22007.ppt

Session 3 (Thurs, Sept 6): Exercise 1: Introduction to ArcGIS Ex12007.doc Ex12007.mhtml Ex12007.zip Ex1Google.doc Ex1Soln.ppt Ex1 in Spanish Ex12007_Sp.doc Ex12007_Sp.mht

Session 4 (Tues Sept 11): Geodesy, Map Projections and Coordinate Systems MapProj.ppt

Session 5 (Thurs Sept 13): Exercise 2: Building a base map Ex22007.doc Ex22007.mht Data: Guadalupe.zip USGS Water Watch WaterWatch.ppt Reading: Chapters 1 and 2 of the Arc Hydro book. Guadalupe geodatabase if you can’t do the “Import to Coverage” step at the beginning of the exercise: Guadalupe.mdb Exercise 2 Amendments Ex2Amendments.doc Ex2Soln.pdf (by Chelsea Cohen)

Session 6 (Tues Sept 18): Spatial analysis using grids (Dr Tarboton). Spatial.ppt. Reading: Chapter 4 of the Arc Hydro book. Supplementary Reading: Spatial Patterns in Catchment Hydrology. Grayson and Blöschl (2000), Chapter 2. Dinf flow direction paper.

Session 7 (Thurs Sept 20): Data sources for GIS in Water Resources DataSources.ppt DataSources.htm DataSources.doc

Session 8 (Tues Sept 25): Exercise 3 Spatial Analysis in Hydrology Ex32007.doc Ex32007.mht Ex3.zip Ex3Soln.doc

Session 9 (Thurs Sept 27): Terrain processing, Arc Hydro tools and their application ArcHydroTerrain.ppt (31MB file)

Session 10 (Tues Oct 2): Exercise 4 Watershed and stream network delineation Ex42007.doc Ex42007.mht Data: Ex4.zip Ex4Addendum.doc Ex4Soln.doc

Session 11 (Thurs Oct 4): CUAHSI, WATERS and HIS by Richard Hooper, David Tarboton and David Maidment CUAHSI_HIS.ppt HydroObjects.zip

Session 12 (Tues Oct 9): NHD, NHDPlus and HydroNetworks HydroNetwork.ppt

Session 13 (Thurs Oct 11): Exercise 5 NHDPlus and Flow Networks Ex52007.doc Ex52007.mht Ex5Data: SanMarcos_NHDPlus_raw.mdb Hypsometric profile: Ex5Addendum.doc Solution: Ex5Soln.doc

Session 14 (Tues Oct 16): Review for Midterm Exam Review2007.doc Review2007.ppt

Session 15 (Thurs Oct 18): Midterm Exam Exam Solution

Session 16 (Tues Oct 21): Imagery and Remote Sensing ImagesAndRemoteSensing.ppt (70MB)

Session 17 (Thurs Oct 23): Services Oriented Architecture for Water Resources Data ServicesArchitecture.ppt

Session 18 (Tues Oct 30): Arc Hydro for Groundwater Groundwater2007.ppt

Session 19 (Thurs Nov 1): Exercise 6: Building an Arc Hydro with Time Series Geodatabase Ex62007.doc Ex62007.mht Ex6Data.zip WeatherDownloader.zip

Session 20 (Tues Nov 6): Surfaces in ArcGIS Surfaces.ppt Exercise using Geostatistical Analysis Geostat.htm Delauney Triangulation Applet

Session 21 (Thurs Nov 8): Image Geo-referencing in Arc GIS: Image Geo-referencing. Remote Sensing of Energy Balance Fluxes: Remote Sensing of Energy Balance Fluxes. Breeze Recording.

Session 22 (Tues Nov 13): Floodplain mapping FloodMap.ppt FloodElevation.ppt

Session 23 (Thurs Nov 15): Semantic mediation of hydrologic data HydroSeek.ppt

Session 24 (Tues Nov 20): Term Paper Instructions TPInstructions.doc Land cover change LandChange.doc LandChange.mht LandChangeData.zip Landchange.ppt Landchange.xls