CEE6440 G I S in Water Resources
Fall Semester 2010

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/giswr2010/giswr2010.htm http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb/giswr/2010 http://snr.unl.edu/airmak/giswr/2010/

Lectures: Tuesday, Thursday, 11:30-1 PM, ENGR 401
Lab: Friday, 11.30-12.30 PM, ENGR 305
Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, 1-2 PM, ENGR 230

USU Teaching Assistant: Saleh Taghvaeian, s.t@aggiemail<dot>usu<dot>edu

Class Video. Live during classes: Tu, Th 11.30 - 12.45 and archived for later viewing

Course Syllabus: Syllabus2010.pdf

USU Student Term Project Archive


Deadlines

Due date
Assignment
9/9/10 Exercise 1. Introduction to HydroDesktop. Ex1HydroDesktop.docx.
9/16/10 Exercise 2. Exercise 2, Building a BaseMap. Ex2_2010.docx, Ex2Data.zip.
9/21/10 Homework 1.Map Projections. Hmwk1.docx.
9/28/10 Exercise 3. Spatial Analysis. Ex32010.doc. Ex3.zip. Ex3.tbx
10/7/10 Exercise 4. Watershed and stream network delineation. Ex42010.docx. Ex4.zip.
10/19/10 Exercise 5: Arc Hydro and NHDPlus. Ex5_2010.docx, (data are obtained from ArcGIS.com).
11/11/10 Exercise 6: Image Analysis and Classification Techniques using ArcGIS 10. Ex62010.docx. Ex6.zip. QuestionEx6.docx. IrmakResponseToStudentsQuestionsEx6.docx.
11/9/10 Term Project Review: TermProjectReview.doc.

General Information


Lecture Material

Class
Day and Date
Subject
Lecturer
1 Thu, Aug 26 Introduction to GIS in Water Resources. Review the course curriculum, course outline. Optional for USU Students lecture12010.pptx Maidment
2 Tue, Aug 31 Introduction to ArcGIS. Slides lecture22010.pptx. Readings. http://www.esri.com/library/brochures/pdfs/arcgis.pdf, http://www.esri.com/library/brochures/pdfs/arcgis-desktop.pdf, http://www.esri.com/library/brochures/pdfs/spatialanalystbro.pdf. Maidment
3 Thu, Sep 2 Exercise 1: Introduction to HydroDesktop: Ex1HydroDesktop.docx. Getting Started with GIS (for ArcGIS 10) free online module from ESRI. Using ArcMap in ArcGIS 10 free online module from ESRI. (You will need to create an ESRI account for yourself to do these) Maidment  
4 Tue, Sep 7 Data sources for GIS in water resources. DataSources2010.pptx. DataSources2010.docx. Maidment


5 Thu, Sep 9 Exercise 2, Building a BaseMap of the San Marcos Basin. Ex2_2010.docx, Ex2Data.zip. Maidment

 

6 Tue, Sep 14 Geodesy, map projections and coordinate systems. Mapproj.pptx. Homework 1. Hmwk1.docx Maidment  
7 Thu, Sep 16 Spatial analysis using grids. Spatial.ppt. Example data RasterCalcExamples.zip. Tarboton  
8 Tue, Sep 21 Exercise 3: Spatial analysis in hydrology. Ex32010.doc, Ex3.zip. Tarboton  
9 Thu, Sep 23 Digital Elevation Based Watershed and Stream Network Delineation. DemWatershedDelineation.ppt Tarboton  
10 Tue, Sep 28 Exercise 4: Watershed and Stream Network Delineation. Ex42010.docx. Ex4.zip. Slope.docx Tarboton  
11 Thu, Sep 30 Network analysis, Arc Hydro, and NHDPlus. HydroNetwork.pptx. Term project proposals due - posted on your web site. Maidment  
12 Tue, Oct 5 Exercise 5: Arc Hydro and NHDPlus. Ex5_2010.docx, (data are obtained from ArcGIS.com), SpaceTime2010.pptx. Maidment  
13 Thu, Oct 7 Review. Review2010.docx, Review2010.pptx. Maidment  
14 Tue, Oct 12 Midterm Exam. Exam2010.pdf Tarboton  
15 Thu, Oct 14 Arc Hydro for Groundwater (Utah fall break - class optional.) ArcHydroGroundwater.pptx. Maidment  
16 Tue, Oct 19 Arc Hydro Groundwater demo (Tim Whiteaker). Orlando Video. GroundwaterTime.pptx Whiteaker  
17 Thu, Oct 21 An Introduction to Remote Sensing. RemoteSensing2010.pptx Irmak  
18 Tue, Oct 26 Exercise 6: Image Analysis and Classification Techniques using ArcGIS 10. Ex62010.docx. Ex6.zip. QuestionEx6.docx. IrmakResponseToStudentsQuestionsEx6.docx. RevisedEx6.docx. Irmak  
19 Thu, Oct 28 Water Observations Data. FlashFlood.pptx. HISCentral.xlsx. HydroDesktopWorkshop.docx. HydroModelerExercise.docx. Bringing HydroDesktop time series themes into ArcGIS HydroDesktopToArcGIS.docx. Maidment  
20 Tue, Nov 2 Sattelite Based ET Estimation. SatelliteBasedETestimation.ppt. Optional Exercise Ex7.docx. Ex7.zip. Term project status report due - posted on your web site. TermProjectReview.doc Irmak  
21 Thu, Nov 4 Autonomous multispectral remote sensing with unmanned airborne vehicle. AAFC.pdf. Austin Jenson (USU)  
22 Tue, Nov 9 A Services-Oriented Architecture for Water Observations Data. WaterServices.pptx. Maidment  
23 Thu, Nov 11 Observations Data Model and HydroServer. ODMAndHydroServer.pptx. Tarboton  
24 Tue, Nov 16 Presentation of Term Papers Students  
25 Thu, Nov 18 Presentation of Term Papers Students  
26 Tue, Nov 23 Presentation of Term Papers. First Session at USU. Click to view Recording (and enter any name in Wimba as participant and be patient - it is slow starting). Students  
  Thu, Nov 25 Thanksgiving!!
27 Tue, Nov 30 Presentation of Term Papers . Second Session at USU. Click to view Recording (and enter any name in Wimba as participant and be patient - it is slow starting). Students  
28 Thu, Dec 2 Presentation of Term Papers, Course evaluation, discussion of final exam. GISWRfinal2010.docx. Students  
  Tue, Dec 7 No class - work on final exam take home Students  
  Thur, Dec 9 No class - work on final exam take home Students