- The City College of New York
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Spring 2024
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.
| Date | Lectures / Presentations (45-60 minutes) | Class (6:30 – 9:00 PM) | Activities (Lab and Research Project) | Homework |
| 30 Jan 2024 | Lecture 1: Course Introduction and GIS Application | In-Person T-424 | Introduction of Software & Installation | Homework 1 |
| 6 Feb 2024 | Lecture 2: Introduction to GIS and ArcMap | In-Person T-424 | Lab 1: Mapping World Data Optional – Google Earth Engine Mapping |
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| 13 Feb 2024 | Lecture 3: GIS Data Sources for Water Resources | Remote (Snow) | Lab 2: Mapping USA data Lab 3: Mapping Lat/Long data |
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| 20 Feb 2024 | Lecture 4: Coordinate Systems and Map Projections | Remote | Lab 4: Downloading Remote Sensing Data | |
| 27 Feb 2024 | Lecture 5: Spatial Analysis * Research Project Discussion |
In-Person T-424 | Lab 5: Rainfall Data Interpolation | Homework 2 |
| 5 Mar 2024 | Lecture 6: Watershed & Network Delineations | In-Person T-424 | Lab 6: Watershed Delineations | |
| 12 Mar 2024 | Lecture 7: Arc Hydro for Water Resources | In-Person T-424 | Lab 7: Learn Model Builder (Map Delineation) * Research Project Selection |
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| 19 Mar 2024 | Lecture 8: Water Infrastructure and Hydrography | In-Person T-424 | Lab 8: Water Quality Data Interpolation | |
| 26 Mar 2024 | Project Review | In-Person T-424 | (1) StoryMaps and (2) Mapping at ArcGIS Online | |
| 2 Apr 2024 | Lecture 09: Remote Sensing in Water Resources | In-Person T-424 (Guest Lecture) |
Lab10-Contaminated Site Mapping | |
| 9 Apr 2024 | Lecture 10: Remote Sensing and Raster Analysis | In-Person T-424 | Lab 9: Extract Vegetation, Water, & Soil Indices (Raster Data) | Homework 3 |
| 16 Apr 2024 | Lecture 11: Intro to HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS | In-Person T-424 | Lab 10: Hydro-logical Simulation using HEC-HMS (Data) | |
| 23 Apr 2024 | No Class (Spring Break) | —————— | ||
| 30 Apr 2024 | No Class (Spring Break) | —————— | —————— | |
| 7 May 2024 | Lecture 12: Online Data and GIS Alternative (QGIS) | In-Person T-424 | Activity: Change Detection, AWS Data Access and QGIS | |
| 14 May 2024 | Group Research Project Presentation | In-Person T-424 | ||
| 21 May 2024 | Final Examination | In-Person T-424 |
| Grading: | Final Exam | 30% | The final exam will be a take home exam that will be handed out during the last class and be due one week later. |
| Homeworks | 15% | The homeworks are due 2 weeks after they have been assigned. No late HW! | |
| Lab Assignments | 20% | Lab Activities to perform GIS mapping based on data provided | |
| Project | 35% | By 19th March 2024, you need to submit a proposal for the term project. This is mandatory! No proposal no class. | |
| Project PPT | 25Pts | These will be scheduled during the 12th May class and be organized by the students. | |
| Project Report | 65Pts | You will need to submit the project Report at the day of PPTs. | |
| Project EVA | 10Pts | You will be asked to participate in the evaluation of your fellow classmates PPTs. |