Live Webcast of Classes originated at USU. Active during classes, Tu, Th 11.30 - 12.45.Christopher M. U. Neale, Utah State University
cneale@cc.usu.edu, (435)797-3689, ENGR402J.
ONLINE course from the University of Texas at Austin that Utah State
University is participating in.
USU website: http://www.neng.usu.edu/dtarb/giswr/2007
Texas website: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/MAIDMENT/giswr2007/giswr2007.htm
Texas Class Video Website: http://www.utwired.engr.utexas.edu/maidment/
Location: ENGR 401
Time: Tuesday, Thursday, 11:30-1PM
Course Syllabus: Syllabus.html
Class Outline and Schedule: Schedule.html.
Registration Information.
USU Student Term Project Web Pages
Live Webcast of Classes originated at USU. Active during classes, Tu, Th 11.30 - 12.45.
8/27/07. States.zip. Zip file of US States useful for base maps.
8/27/07. Computer Facilities
8/27/07. Instructions for preparing web pages and saving term projects
8/27/07. Term paper suggestions.
8/27/07. ArcView Workarounds for some ArcInfo functionality.
8/27/07. Term paper archive from previous years
Session 1 (Thurs, Aug 30): Introduction to GIS in Water Resources. Review the course curriculum, course outline. Lecture slides: Lecture12007.ppt. Breeze Lecture.
Session 2 (Tues, Sept 4): Introduction to ArcGIS. Slides: Lecture22007.ppt. Reference Materials: ArcGIS brochure, Spatial Analyst brochure. Breeze Lecture.
Session 3 (Thurs, Sept 6): Exercise 1: Introduction to ArcGIS. Ex12007.doc, Ex12007.mhtml, Ex12007.zip. Breeze Lecture.
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. Exercise 2 Amendments, Ex2Amendments.doc. Breeze Lecture.
Session 10 (Tues Oct 2): Watershed Delineation Exercise. Ex42007.doc. Data files: Ex4.zip. Breeze Recording. Ex4Addendum.doc: Addendum giving workarounds for some problems. Breeze Recording.
Session 11 (Thurs Oct 4): CUAHSI, WATERS and HIS by Richard Hooper, David Tarboton and David Maidment. CUAHSI_HIS.ppt, HydroObjects.zip. Breeze Recording.
Session 12 (Tues Oct 9): NHD, NHDPlus and HydroNetworks. HydroNetwork.ppt . Breeze Recording.
Session 13 (Thurs Oct 11): Exercise 5 NHDPlus and Flow Networks. Ex52007.doc, Ex52007.mht. Ex5Data: SanMarcos_NHDPlus_raw.mdb. Hypsometric profile: Ex5Addendum.doc. Breeze Recording.
Session 14 (Tues Oct 16): Review for Midterm Exam: Review2007.doc, Review2007.ppt. Breeze Recording.
Session 15 (Thurs Oct 18): Midterm Exam.
Session 16 (Tues Oct 23): Image Data Sources and Remote Sensing: ImageDataSourcesandRemoteSensing.ppt. Breeze Recording.
Session 17 (Thurs Oct 25): Services Oriented Architecture for Water Resources: ServicesArchitecture.ppt. Breeze Recording.
Session 18 (Tues Oct 30): Arc Hydro for Groundwater: Groundwater2007.ppt. Breeze Recording.
Session 19 (Thurs Nov 1): Exercise 6 Building an Arc Hydro with Time Series GeoDatabase: Exercise 6 2007. Breeze Recording.
Session 20 (Tues Nov 6): Surface Terrain Modeling: Surface Terrain Modeling. Breeze Recording.
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. Breeze Recording.
Session 23 (Thurs Nov 15): Hydroseek and Hydrotagger - a search engine for hydrologists: HydroSeek_Tagger_USU_GISCourse.ppt. Breeze Recording.
Session 24 (Tues Nov 20): Term Paper Instructions: TPInstructions.doc. Land cover change: LandChange.doc, LandChange.mht, LandChangeData.zip, Landchange.ppt, Landchange.xls. Breeze Recording.
Session 25 (Tues Nov 27): Project Presentations (Part 1): Breeze Recording.
Session 26 (Thurs Nov 29): Project Presentations (Part 2): Breeze Recording.
Session 27 (Tues Dec 4): Project Presentations (Part 3): Breeze Recording.
Session 28 (Thurs Dec 6): Project Presentations (Part 4): Breeze Recording.
Exercise 1: Due Thursday Sept 13. Introduction to ArcGIS. Ex12007.doc, Ex12007.mhtml, Ex12007.zip, Ex1Google.doc.
Exercise 2: Due Thursday Sept 20. Building a base map. Ex22007.doc, Ex22007.mht. Data: Guadalupe.zip. Exercise 2 Amendment.
Exercise 3: Due Tuesday Oct 2. Spatial Analysis Exercise. Ex32007.doc. Data files: Ex3.zip.
Exercise 4: Due Tuesday Oct 9. Watershed Delineation. Ex42007.doc. Data files: Ex4.zip. Ex4Addendum.doc: Addendum giving workarounds for some problems. Due date postponed to Tuesday Oct 16
Exercise 5: NHDPlus and Flow Networks. Ex52007.doc, Ex52007.mht. Ex5Data: SanMarcos_NHDPlus_raw.mdb. Hypsometric profile: Ex5Addendum.doc.
Exercise 6: Building an Arc Hydro with Time Series Geodatabase. Ex62007.doc. Ex6Data: Ex6Data.zip. Due date Thursday Nov 8th