1. Instructor:

Akm Saiful Islam
Lecturer, IWFM, BUET
Email: akmsaifulislam@iwfm.buet.ac.bd
Phone: 880-2-9664640 Ext 7923

2. Class Hours:

  TBA

3. Office Hours:

  TBA

4. Course Content:

Introduction to hydrologic information system; Importance and advancement of hydrologic science; Hydrologic data: source, classification, acquisition; Hydrologic metadata; Hydrologic Information database; Analysis and visualization of data; Sharing and retrieval of hydrologic information through Web; Application of hydrologic information system for water resources management.

5. Grading Policy:

Mid Term Exam = 30%    Final Exam = 40%    Assignments & Attendance = 10%    Mini Project = 20%

6. Syllabus:
 

Topic

Lecture

Presentations
(will be posted soon)

1. Introduction
2. Background and user needs
3. Importance of HIS
    

1. Information technology
2. Current advancement of hydrologic science
3. HIS for Bangladesh � National Water Resources Database (NWRD)
    

1. Types of hydrologic data
2. Data acquisition practices
3. Problems for hydrologic data acquisition and heterogeneous data formats
    

1. Introduction to metadata
2. Needs of creating metadata
3. Metadata Standards
4. ISO 19115:2003 Geographic information � metadata and Dublin core metadata standards
5. Metadata cross walk and interoperability
6. Metadata development tools and application programming interface (API)
    

Mid term Exam
         - Syllabus (Lecture 1 to Lecture 8)
 

1. Introduction to database and SQL
2. Types of database management system- relational, object and native XML databases.
3. Oracle, MySQL, Ms Access databases
4. Selection of databases for different applications
    

1. Statistical Analysis
2. Data mining and knowledge discovery
3. Visualization tools and API
    

1. Benefits of using web for HIS
2. Problems of sharing and retrieval of hydrologic information
3. Ontology and Semantic Web
4. Web Ontology Language (OWL)
5. Markup languages � Hydrologic markup languages
    

1. Importance to water resources management (WRM)
2. Applications of HIS for WRM
    

1. Future trends of HIS
2. Challenges and imminent steps of HIS for Bangladesh
    

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7. Mini Project:

            - Guideline: Students are advise to select a topic relevant to their profession.
            -  Report: 5 page report written in Ms Word, due on Last week
            - Report should contain - introduction to the problem, methodology, results,   
               conclusion

8. Software:

• Protege -Ontology Editor

• MySQL & PostGreSQL database

• Netbean - Java Editors

9. Books:

Last Updated: February 12, 2005