CE 394K.3/CEE6440 GIS in Water Resources Fall 2006

Course Outline and Schedule

 

Class Number

Day and Date

Subject

1

Thurs Aug 31

Introduction to GIS in Water Resources

2

Tues Sept 5

Introduction to ArcGIS

3

Thurs Sept 7

Exercise 1: Creating a map with ArcGIS

4

Tues Sept 12

Geodesy, map projections and coordinate systems

5

Thurs Sept 14

Exercise 2: Building a base map of the Guadalupe basin

6

Tues Sept 19

GIS data sources for water resources

7

Thurs Sept 21

Spatial analysis using grids

8

Tues Sept 26

Exercise 3:  Spatial analysis in hydrology

9

Thurs Sept 28

Digital Elevation Based Watershed and Stream Network Delineation

Term Project Proposals Posted on your Web Site

10

Tues Oct 3

Exercise 4:  Watershed and Stream Network Delineation. 

11

Thurs Oct 5

Advanced terrain analysis concepts

12

Tues Oct 10

Network analysis, Arc Hydro, and NHDPlus

13

Thurs Oct 12

Exercise 5: Arc Hydro and NHDPlus

14

Tues Oct 17

Review

15

Thurs Oct 19

Midterm Exam

16

Tues Oct 24

From Geographic Information Systems to Hydrologic Information Systems (HIS)

17

Thurs Oct 26

HIS Observations Data Model and Web Services 

18

Tues Oct 31

Exercise 6: Hydrologic Information Systems

19

Thurs Nov 2

Bacterial TMDL model and schematic processor

20

Tues Nov 7

3D Objects, ArcScene and Groundwater

21

Thurs Nov 9

Modeling surfaces using TIN and raster interpolation from points 

22

Tues Nov 14

Time and Space in ArcGIS

23

Thurs Nov 16

CUAHSI Hydrologic Information Systems Workshop in Texas (No online class)

24

Tues Nov 21

Presentation of Term Papers

 

 

Thanksgiving!!

25

Tues Nov 28

Presentation of Term Papers

26

Thurs Nov 30

Presentation of Term Papers

27

Tues Dec 5

Presentation of Term Papers

28

Thurs Dec 7

Presentation of Term Papers

Course evaluation, discussion of final exam