1. Welcome to GIS in Water Resources 2018
David Maidment, University of Texas at Austin
David Tarboton, Utah State University

2. Learning Objectives By the end of the class you should be able to:
Prepare a map of a hydrologic region including measurement sites and associate it with time series of data measured at those locations;
Use web mapping to access geospatial and temporal water resources information;
Create a base map of a study region including watersheds, streams, and aquifers by selecting features from regional maps;
Interpolate measured data at points to form raster surfaces over a region, and spatially average those surfaces over polygons of interest;
Do hydrologic calculations using map algebra on raster grids;
Analyze a digital elevation model of land surface terrain to derive watersheds and stream networks;
Calculate hydraulic properties of stream channels from a digital elevation model using the height above nearest drainage (HAND) approach.

3. Our Classroom Dr David Tarboton Students at Utah State University
Dr David Maidment Students at UT Austin

4. Six Basic Course Elements
Lectures
Powerpoint slides
Video streaming
Readings
Assigned web materials
Homework
Computer exercises
Hand exercises
Term Project
Oral presentation
PDF report
Class Interaction
Discussion
Examinations
Midterm, final

5. Schedule
This class will start on Thursday August 30 to coincide with the start of classes in Texas.

6. Some Preparation Jack Dangermond, President, ESRI
Article from NY Times:

7. Videos from the ESRI User Conference Plenary Session are at: http://p
In particular: is the second of four parts of Jack Dangermond’s introductory presentation that presents his “vision”.   This is a broad overview about 17 mins long that is not technically detailed but talks about general geospatial technological issues and their evolution.