G I S in Water Resources
Fall Semester 2015
USU CEE6440, UT Austin CE 394K.3

ONLINE course offered jointly by the University of Texas at Austin and Utah State University

Instructors: David R. Maidment
University of Texas at Austin
http://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/maidment
David G Tarboton
Utah State University

http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb

Websites:
UT Austin: http://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/giswr2015/giswr2015.htm
USU: http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb/giswr/2015
USU Canvas: https://usu.instructure.com/courses/388816

Class Video Link. Live during classes and archived for later viewing
Adobe Connect Link.

Course Syllabus: GISWRSyllabus2015.pdf

USU Student Term Project Archive

General Information


Schedule and Lecture Material

Class Day and Date Subject Lecturer
1 Thu, Aug 27 Introduction to ArcGIS. Lecture12015.pptx [Usu Students to view recording] Maidment
2 Tue, Sep 1 Introduction to GIS in Water Resources. Review the course curriculum, course outline. Lecture22015.pptx Tarboton
3 Thu, Sep 3 Exercise 1: Introduction to ArcGIS. Ex12015.pdf. Ex1Data.zip. Ex1WebData.zip Tarboton
4 Tue, Sep 8 Data sources for GIS in water resources. DataSources2015.pptx. DataSources2015.pdf. SynopsisDataSources.pdf. Maidment
5 Thu, Sep 10 Exercise 2: Building a Base Dataset of the San Marcos Basin. Ex22015.docx Ex22025.pdf. HydroShare resource: NFIE_12.gdb.zip. Maidment
6 Tue, Sep 15 Geodesy, map projections and coordinate systems. MapProj.pptx. SynopsisMapProjections.pdf. Maidment
7 Thu, Sep 17 Spatial analysis using grids. SpatialAnalysis.pptx. SynopsisSpatialAnalysis.pdf. Slope.pdf. RasterExample.zip. Tarboton
8 Tue, Sep 22 Exercise 3: Spatial analysis in hydrology. SpatialAnalysis2.pptx. SynopsisSpatialAnalysisExercise.pdf. Ex32015.pdf. Ex3Data.zip. Hw1.pdf. smdem.zip. Tarboton
9 Thu, Sep 24 Digital Elevation Based Watershed and Stream Network Delineation. SynopsisDEMWatershedDelin.pdf. DemWatershedDelineation.pptx. 1 page Term project proposal due. Tarboton
10 Tue, Sep 29 Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models (TauDEM). HydrologicTerrainAnalysis.pptx. SynopsisHydrologicTerrainAnalysis.pdf. Tarboton
11 Thu, Oct 1 Exercise 4: Watershed and Stream Network Delineation. SynopsisWatershedDelinExercise.pdf. Ex42015.pdf. Ex4Data.zip Tarboton
12 Tue, Oct 6 National Flood Interoperability Experiment. NFIEGISWR2015.pptx Maidment
13 Thu, Oct 8 Review for Midterm Exam. MidtermReview.pptx. Review2015.pdf. Midterm2014. Midterm2013. Midterm2012. Maidment
14 Tue, Oct 13 Midterm Exam Tarboton
15 Thu, Oct 15 USU on Friday Schedule. Texas class on Geospatial Analysis of Groundwater. AHGroundwater.pptx. Whiteaker
16 Tue, Oct 20 Introduction to HEC-HMS IntroHECHMS.pdf. HECHMSSoln.pdf. Maidment
17 Thu, Oct 22 Extending ArcGIS using programming. Programming.pptx. WatershedDemo.zip. HecHMS.zip. TauDEMDemo.zip. Tarboton
18 Tue, Oct 27 LIDAR and Flood Mapping LIDARMapping.pptx. 2 page term project status report due. Term Project Review Assignments. Maidment
19 Thu, Oct 29 Exercise 5: Building an HEC-HMS hydrologic model using geospatial services. Ex52015.docx, Ex52015.pdf, TermPaperPresentations.docx, Ex52015Extension.pdf. Ex5tools.zip, Ex5Data.zip, NHDNED.pptx. Maidment/Tarboton
20 Tue, Nov 3 HydroShare. HydroShare_GISWR_2015.pptx. SynopsisHISandHydroShare.pdf. TermPaperPresentations.docx. Halloween2015.pptx. Tarboton
21 Thu, Nov 5 Hydrologic Information Systems. GISWR_CUAHSI_HIS_Fall2015.pptx. Horsburgh
22 Tue, Nov 10 Texas student presentations Maidment
23 Thu, Nov 12 Texas student presentations Maidment
24 Tue, Nov 17 Texas student presentations Maidment
25 Thu, Nov 19 Texas student presentations Maidment
26 Tue, Nov 24 Texas student presentations Maidment
Thu, Nov 26 Thanksgiving
27 Tue, Dec 1 USU student presentations Tarboton
28 Thu, Dec 3 USU student presentations, Discussion of Final Exam. GISWRFinal2015.pdf. Final.zip Tarboton
Fri, Dec 4 Term project due
  Tue, Dec 8 Texas classes over. No class at USU. Work on take home final.  
Thu, Dec 10 Texas classes over. No class at USU. Work on take home final.