CEE5440/CEE6440 G I S in Water Resources 2001
A Virtual Course Presented On-Line

This is the archive site for the Utah State University component of the Geographic Information Systems in Water Resources Online Course held Fall Semester, 2001. August 28- December 6.  This was a course presented by David Maidment at the University of Texas at Austin.  A group of USU students took this class and David Tarboton at Utah State University gave some guest lectures.  This site contains the archived USU term papers.
 
Instructor
David R. Maidment
University of Texas at Austin
http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment
USU Coordinator
David G Tarboton
dtarb@cc.usu.edu, (435)797-3172,
http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb/

Utah State University participants and term paper links.

Christina Bandaragoda Modeling a Spatially Distributed Water Balance using TOPMODEL for the Blue River Basin, OK
Hadi Jaafar Using ArcIMS to establish a website for Cache County and surroundings
Keri Murch Trichloroethyline in Groundwater: A GIS-aided investigation
Dennis Russell Building a Stream Network for the Nooksack River Using ArcHydro
Ricardo Soto Siting of Septic Systems in Cache County Using a Desktop GIS
David Strahl A Comparison of Stream Delineations
Jason Thompson Prediction of Channel Geometry From DEM-Derived Channel Slope
Vasile Turcu Assessing Soil Water Infiltrability for Different Rainfall Intensities (Rush Valley, UT)
Kathleen Webb Mapping Endangered Fish Habitat in the Grand Canyon
Paul Wirth Cache Valley Watershed Area
Gengsheng Zhang Application of ArcGIS 8.1 in analyzing climate conditions and vegetation distribution in Utah
Hongxing Zheng Delineation of Sub-watersheds and Comparison of Streamflow Data and Precipitation Data in the Big Lost River basin, ID
Disclaimer. The information contained herein includes student classwork and is provided as a public service with the understanding that Utah State University makes no warranties, either expressed or implied, concerning the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or suitability of the information.


Course Description

Application of Geographic Information Systems in Water Resources.   Digital mapping of water resources information.   Spatial coordinate systems.  Terrain analysis using digital elevation models.   River and watershed networks.  Soil and and land use mapping.   Flood hydrology modeling and flood plain mapping.   Terrain analysis for hydrologic modeling.

Course Objectives