WFM 6202: Remote Sensing and GIS in Water Management:

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Semester: April 2009

 

Part-B: Geographical Information System (GIS)

1. Instructor:

Dr. Akm Saiful Islam
Associate Professor, IWFM, BUET
Email: akmsaifulislam@iwfm.buet.ac.bd
Phone: 880-2-9664640-44 PABX Ext 7923

2. Class Hours:

  Tuesday (subject to change)    2:15p.m. - 5:00p.m.  (Ground Floor, IWFM)

3. Office Hours:

Tuesday (subject to change)    5:00p.m. - 5:30p.m.  (Room 309-2,  IWFM)

4. Course Content:

Concepts of GIS; Spatial data: sources, acquisition and entry; Database; Vector and raster data; Data analysis; GIS output; Integration of remote sensing and GIS; Application of remote sensing and GIS in water resources modeling and management.

5. Grading Policy (subject to change):

Mid Term  = 25%  Final Exam = 40%  Assignment =10% 
Mini Project =20% Attendance =   5%

6. Syllabus:

Introduction to remote sensing; Principles of remote sensing; Remote sensing systems; Digital image processing; Concepts of GIS; Spatial data: sources, acquisition and entry; Database; Vector and raster data; Data analysis; GIS output; Integration of remote sensing and GIS; Application of remote sensing and GIS in water resources modeling and management.

7. Lecture Topics:

• Syllabus

• Introduction to Geographic Information System         

• Geospatial data Model and Structure

• Sources and acquisition of geospatial Data

• Geospatial databases 

• Geo-database

• Geo referencing: coordinate systems and map projections
  Additional Reading: Manalobis Distance

• Interpolation techniques in GIS

• Geostatistics and data Exploration

• Digital Terrain Analysis: DEM and DTM

• Spatial Analysis
   

8. Hands on Training:
    on the application of GIS in water modeling and management

• Zonal statistics:
  Hands on training on locating buildings vulnerable to flood damage
  data: file

• Digital Terrain Analysis:
  Generation of rainfall contour map using spatial analysis of GIS
  data: file

• Geo-statistical Analysis:
  Developing ground water level map for Dinajpur district, Bangladesh using geo-statistical analyst    data: file

• Spatial Analysis:
  Application of GIS in Watershed Analysis 
  data: file

• Data Exploration:
  Locate potential sites for hot springs resort.

• Geometric transformation:
  Geo-referencing of a scanned soil map
   

9. Mini Project:

•  Guideline: Students are advise to select a topic relevant to their profession.

• Report: 10 page report written in Ms Word, due on Last week. Report should contain - introduction to the problem, methodology, results, conclusion.

• Presentation: Each group will present their study at the end of the semester

10. Software: ArcGIS 9.2 (commercial) , ILWIS 3.4 (open source)

9. Books:

1. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems - by Kang-Tsung Chang
     (Hands on Training Text)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. GIS Work Book, Part-I Fundamentals , Part-II Technical - by Shunji Murai (Main Text) - available in CD

• Students are advised to buy the text book "Introduction to Geographic Information Systems - by Kang-Tsung Chang"