CEE6440 G I S in Water Resources
Fall Semester 2009

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

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

http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb
Ayse Irmak
University of Nebraska

http://www.engineering.unl.edu/academicunits/civil/faculty/irmak.shtml
Websites: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/MAIDMENT/giswr2009/giswr2009.htm http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb/giswr/2009 http://snr.unl.edu/airmak/giswr/2009/

Lectures: Tuesday, Thursday, 11:30-1 PM, ENGR 401
Lab: Friday, 11.30-12.30 PM, ENGR 305

USU Wimba Classroom Live. Active during classes: Tu, Th 11.30 - 12.45

Texas Mediasite: http://www.utwired.engr.utexas.edu/maidment09/

Course Syllabus: Syllabus2009.pdf
Class Outline and Schedule: Schedule2009.
Registration Information.

USU Student Term Project Web Pages


Lecture Material

Class
Day and Date
Subject
Lecturer
Links
0 Tu, Aug 25 USU/Nebraska preparation session and technology testing Tarboton/Irmak Lecture0.ppt, Recording (Trial - no sound)
1 Thu, Aug 27 Introduction to GIS in Water Resources. Review the course curriculum, course outline. Maidment Lecture12009.ppt, Recording (be patient - sound starts 1 min in)
2 Tue, Sep 1 Introduction to ArcGIS Maidment Lecture22009.ppt: Readings: http://www.esri.com/library/brochures/pdfs/arcgis.pdf, http://www.esri.com/library/brochures/pdfs/spatialanalystbro.pdf, Recording
3 Thu, Sep 3 Exercise 1: Introduction to ArcGIS Maidment Ex12009.doc, Ex12009Data.zip, Recording
4 Tue, Sep 8 Data sources for GIS in water resources Maidment

DataSources2009.doc, DataSources2009.ppt, Recording

5 Thu, Sep 10 Exercise 2: Building a base map of the San Marcos Basin Maidment

Ex2_2009.doc, Ex2Data.zip, Ex2Addendum.doc, Recording

6 Tue, Sep 15 Geodesy, map projections and coordinate systems Maidment Mapproj.ppt, GPS Exercise: GPS.doc, Earth Distance: EarthDistance.doc, Homework 1: hw1.doc, Recording
7 Thu, Sep 17 Spatial analysis using grids Tarboton Spatial.ppt, RasterCalcExampleData.zip, Wimba recording (No sound for first 15 min), Texas Recording
8 Tue, Sep 22 Exercise 3: Spatial analysis in hydrology Tarboton Ex32009.doc, Ex3.zip, Recording
9 Thu, Sep 24 Digital Elevation Based Watershed and Stream Network Delineation. Tarboton DemWatershedDelineation.ppt, Recording
10 Tue, Sep 29 Exercise 4: Watershed and Stream Network Delineation. Tarboton Ex42009.doc, Ex4.zip, Recording
11 Thu, Oct 1 Network analysis, Arc Hydro, and NHDPlus. Term project proposals due - posted on your web site. Maidment HydroNetwork.ppt. Recording.
12 Tue, Oct 6 Space and Time in ArcGIS Maidment SpaceTime2009.ppt. AvoidPitfalls.ppt. Recording
13 Thu, Oct 8 Exercise 5: Flow Networks and Basin Precipitation Maidment Ex52009.doc, Ex5.zip. Recording
14 Tue, Oct 13 Review Tarboton Review2009.doc, Review2009.ppt. Recording
15 Thu, Oct 15 Arc Hydro for Groundwater (Utah fall break - class optional. In the Dean's conference room, ENGR 413a) Whiteaker ArcHydroGroundwater.ppt. Recording
16 Tue, Oct 20 Subsurface Analyst Whiteaker SubsurfaceAnalyst.ppt. Recording
17 Thu, Oct 22 Midterm Exam All  
18 Tue, Oct 27 Imagery and Remote Sensing. Irmak RemoteSensing1.pptx. Recording
19 Thu, Oct 29 Exercise 6: Use of Remote Sensing data in ArcGIS Irmak Ex62009.docx, Ex6.zip. Recording
20 Tue, Nov 3 Analysis in Space and Time using Matlab. Term project status report due - posted on your web site. Li MapAlgebra1.ppt. Cubic map albegra paper. Feature modeling paper. Recording
21 Thu, Nov 5 Spatial and Temporal analysis of Nexrad Rainfall Li MapAlgebra2.ppt. StormMovie.avi. TermProjectReview.doc. Recording
22 Tue, Nov 10 Services Oriented Architecture for Water Resources. Maidment SOAWater.ppt. TermProjectPresentationInstructions.doc. Recording
23 Thu, Nov 12 Hydrologic Information Systems Tarboton CUAHSIHIS2009.ppt. HISDemoSteps.doc. Recording
24 Tue, Nov 17 Presentation of Term Papers - Texas Students Recording
0 Thu, Nov 19 Presentation of Term Papers - Texas Students Recording
25 Tue, Nov 24 Presentation of Term Papers - Texas Students Recording
26 Thu, Nov 26 Thanksgiving!!
27 Tue, Dec 1 Presentation of Term Papers - USU Students USU papers recording. Texas papers recording.
28 Thu, Dec 3 Presentation of Term Papers, Course evaluation, discussion of final exam Students Recording. GISWRfinal2009.pdf. Final.zip

Due date
Assignment
9/10/09 Exercise 1: Introduction to ArcGIS. Ex12009.doc, Ex12009Data.zip
9/17/09 Exercise 2: Ex2_2009.doc Ex2Data.zip.
9/22/09 Homework 1: hw1.doc
9/29/09 Exercise3: Ex32009.doc, Ex3.zip.
10/13/09 Exercise4: Ex42009.doc, Ex4.zip.
10/20/09 Exercise5: Ex52009.doc, Ex5.zip.
11/5/09 Exercise6: Ex62009.docx, Ex6.zip.
11/12/09 Term Project Review: TermProjectReview.doc

General Information
8/25/09. Computer Facilities
8/25/09. Instructions for preparing web pages and saving term projects
8/25/09. States.zip. Zip file of US States useful for base maps.
8/25/09. ArcView Workarounds for some ArcInfo functionality.
8/25/09. Term paper archive from previous years
8/25/09. Past Exams
8/25/09. Instructions for running TauDEM on Windows Vista