Tarendra Lakhankar
PhD

  • The City College of New York
  • Department of Civil Engineering
  • Spring 2025

Course Description: In this course students will learn how to use the underlying concepts of Geographic Information Systems for problems in Water Resources engineering. We will start with a review of the basic concepts of GIS, such as the use Coordinate systems, projections, data concepts, and geographic references. After refreshing this knowledge we will apply these concepts to typical hydrologic tasks, such as Terrain modeling, watershed delineation, computation and extraction of river and watershed networks including spatial analysis computations. Once we have mastered that the course will also introduce some modeling concepts and expand on the integration of time series and geospatial data in general. We will also add some components that address remote sensing data products and their analysis within the GIS environment. The course will be rounded out with some special topics related to challenges that remain for geospatial information systems, such as data heterogeneity, data about data (metadata), and how one can search best for data.

Pre-Survey for Class

Date Lectures / Presentations (45-60 minutes) Class Location
(6:30-9:00 PM)
Activities (Lab and Research Project) Homeworks
27 Jan 2025 Lecture 1: Course Introduction and GIS Application In-Person T-424 Introduction of Software & Installation  
  3 Feb 2025 Lecture 2: Introduction to GIS and ArcGIS Pro In-Person T-424 Lab 1: Mapping the World with ArcGIS Pro
Optional – Google Earth Engine Mapping
Homework 1
10 Feb 2025 Lecture 3: GIS Data Sources for Water Resources
* Research Project Discussion
In-Person T-424 Lab 2: Mapping the USA-based Energy & Emissions data
Lab 3: Visualizing Latitude and Longitude data
 
18 Feb 2025 Lecture 4: Geodesy, Coordinate Systems, and Map Projections In-Person T-424 Lab 4: Remote Sensing: Visualizing Earth from Space
Homework 2
24 Feb 2025 Lecture 5: Spatial Analysis for Water Resources In-Person T-424 Lab 5: Spatial Analysis: Interpolating Rainfall Data  
3 Mar 2025 Project Review
* Research Project Selection
Online (Zoom) (1) StoryMaps Presentation
(2) Mapping at ArcGIS Online
 
10 Mar 2025 Lecture 6: Watershed & Network Delineations In-Person T-424 Lab 6: Watershed Delineations Homework 3
17 Mar 2025 Lecture 7: Remote Sensing in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering In-Person T-424 Lab 7: Interpolation and Analysis of Water Data  
24 Mar 2025 Lecture 8: Intro to HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS In-Person T-424 Lab 8: Simulation Watershed Hydrology using HEC-HMS (Watershed Data)    (CN calculation xls)  Homework 4
31 Mar 2025 No Class Scheduled ——————  ——————  
7 Apr 2025 Lecture 09: Remote Sensing and Raster Analysis In-Person T-424 Lab 9: Raster Data Analysis: Extracting Vegetation, Water, & Soil Indices  
14 Apr 2025 No Class (Spring Break) —————— ——————  
21 Apr 2025 Lecture 10: QGIS Mapping In-Person T-424 Lab 10: QGIS mapping of Global, States and Lat Long data Homework 5
28 Apr 2025 Lecture 11: Environmental Impact Assessment  and GIS In-Person T-424 Lab 11: Environmental GIS: Mapping and Analyzing Contaminated Site (Geo-referencing old data)  
5 May 2025  Lecture 12: Emerging Technologies in GIS In-Person T-424
 
12 May 2025 Group Research Project Presentation In-Person T-424    
19 May 2025 Final Examination In-Person T-424    
Grading: Final Exam30%The final exam will be in-person exam on 19 May 2025.
Homeworks15%The homeworks are due 2 weeks after they have been assigned. Avoid late HW submissions!
Lab Assignments20%Lab Activities to perform GIS mapping based on data provided
Project35%By 10th March 2025, you need to submit a proposal for the term project.
(a) Project PPT25PtsThese will be scheduled during the 12th May class and be organized by the students.
(b) Project Report65PtsYou will need to submit the project Report at the day of PPTs.
(c) Project EVA10PtsYou will be asked to participate in the evaluation of your fellow classmates PPTs.

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