- 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.
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 Exam | 30% | The final exam will be in-person exam on 19 May 2025. |
| Homeworks | 15% | The homeworks are due 2 weeks after they have been assigned. Avoid late HW submissions! | |
| Lab Assignments | 20% | Lab Activities to perform GIS mapping based on data provided | |
| Project | 35% | By 10th March 2025, you need to submit a proposal for the term project. | |
| (a) Project PPT | 25Pts | These will be scheduled during the 12th May class and be organized by the students. | |
| (b) Project Report | 65Pts | You will need to submit the project Report at the day of PPTs. | |
| (c) Project EVA | 10Pts | You will be asked to participate in the evaluation of your fellow classmates PPTs. |