G I S in Water Resources
Fall Semester 2017
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://hydrology.usu.edu/dtarb

Websites:
UT Austin: http://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/giswr2017/giswr2017.htm
USU: http://hydrology.usu.edu/dtarb/giswr/2017
USU Canvas: https://usu.instructure.com/courses/468873

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

Course Syllabus: GISWRSyllabus2017.pdf

USU Student Term Projects
USU Student Term Project Archive

UT Austin Term Projects

General Information

Term Project


Schedule and Lecture Material

Class

Date

Subject

Lecturer

0

Tues Aug 29

Introduction to CEE6440 GIS in Water Resources Lecture0.pptx

Tarboton

1

Thur Aug 31

Introduction to GIS in Water Resources Lecture12017.pptx GISWRSynopsis1.pdf PresAtSOC.pptx NWSTDEM31August.pdf

Maidment/Tarboton

2

Tues Sep 5

Introduction to ArcGIS Lecture22017.pptx

Maidment

3

Thur Sep 7

Exercise 1: Introduction to ArcGIS Ex12017.pdf Ex1Data.zip InstructionsForAccessingArcGISPro.pdf

Tarboton

4

Tues Sep 12

Data sources for GIS in water resources DataSources2017.pptx SynopsisDataSources.pdf

Maidment

5

Thur Sep 14

Map projections and coordinate systems MapProj.pptx, Hw12017.pdf

Maidment

5

Tues Sep 19

Exercise 2: Base map for the San Marcos Basin Ex22017.pdf

Tarboton

7

Thurs Sept 21

Spatial analysis using grids. SpatialAnalysis.pptx SynopsisSpatialAnalysis.pdf Slope.pdf RasterExample.zip [1 page term project proposal due]

Tarboton

8

Tues Sept 26

Exercise 3: Spatial Analysis in Hydrology. Ex32017.pdf, Ex3Data.zip

Tarboton

9

Thurs Sept 28

Digital Elevation Model Watershed and Stream Network Delineation. DemWatershedDelineation.pptx, SynopsisDEMWatershedDelin.pdf

Tarboton

10

Tues Oct 3

Extended Hydrologic Terrain Analysis. ExtendedTerrainAnalysis.pptx

Tarboton

11

Thurs Oct 5

Exercise 4. Watershed and Stream Network Delineation. Ex42017.pdf

Tarboton

12

Tues Oct 10

National Water Model. NationalWaterModel.pptx

Maidment

13

Thurs Oct 12

Review for Midterm Exam, Review2017.pdf, MidtermReview2017.pptx
Midterm2012 Midterm2013 Midterm2014 Midterm2015 Midterm2016
Solution2012 Solution2013 Solution2014 Solution2015 Solution2016

Maidment

14

Tues Oct 17

Midterm exam. Solution.

Both

15

Thurs Oct 19

GIS for Groundwater AHGroundwater17.pptx [USU fall break, class optional ffor USU students]

Maidment

16

Tues Oct 24

Height above Nearest Drainage (HAND) flood inundation mapping. HAND_Flood_Inundation_Mapping.pptx [Term project 2 page progress report due.] Term Project Review Assignments.

Tarboton

17

Thurs Oct 26

Exercise 5: Height above nearest drainage (HAND) Flood Inundation mapping. Ex5_2017.pdf, Ex5.zip, Ex5Slides.pptx

Tarboton

18

Tues Oct 31

TermPaperPresentations.pdf Demography.pptx LIDAR.pptx

Maidment

19

Thurs Nov 2

Extending ArcGIS using Programming (Python). Programming.pptx, MyWatershed.zip

Tarboton

20

Tues Nov 7

Water Resources Analysis using WEAP and GIS. WEAP_Alafifi.pptx

Ayman Alafifi

21

Thurs Nov 9

Term Paper Presentations Texas

Maidment

22

Tues Nov 14

Term Paper Presentations Texas

Maidment

23

Thurs Nov 16

Water information sharing and HydroShare. HydroShare_GISWR_2017.pptx. demos.zip.

Tarboton

24

Tues Nov 21

Term Paper Presentations Texas

Maidment

Thurs Nov 23

Thanksgiving

25

Tues Nov 28

Term Paper Presentations Texas

Maidment

26

Thurs Nov 30

Term Paper Presentations Texas

Maidment

27

Tues Dec 5

Term Paper Presentations USU

Tarboton

28

Thurs Dec 7

Term Paper Presentations USU

Tarboton

Fri Dec 8

Term project due

Fri Dec 15

Take home final exam due. GISWRFinal2017.pdf, GISWRFinal2017.zip