WFM 6202: Remote Sensing and GIS in Water Management:

Geographical Information System (GIS)

Semester: October 2015

** Last Updated on 24st February 2015 at 1:30am**

 

1. Instructor:

Dr. A.K.M. Saiful Islam
Professor, IWFM, BUET
Email: akmsaifulislam@iwfm.buet.ac.bd
Gmail: saiful3@gmail.com
Phone: 880-2-9664640-44 PABX Ext 7923

2. Class Hours:

Tuesday(subject to change)    5:00p.m. - 7:30p.m.  (Class room, 4th Floor, IWFM)

3. Office Hours:

Tuesday  (subject to change)     4:30p.m. - 5:00p.m.  (Room-309, 2nd Floor,  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  = 30%  Final Exam = 50% Mini Project =20%

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 and Geo-database

• Geo referencing: coordinate systems and map projections
  

• Data Exploration and Geospatial Interpolation

• Digital Terrain Analysis

• 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

• Planform Analysis using Satellite Images:
  Hands on Exercise on Planform changes of River using Satellite Images
   

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 10.2 (commercial) , ILWIS 3.8 (open source)

ILWIS 3.3 & documentation available from developed website at ITC: http://www.itc.nl/ilwis/downloads/ilwis33.asp

Latest version of ILWIS 3.8 from 52 North (community tool): http://52north.org/communities/ilwis/overview

9. Books:

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

2. ILWIS User Guide 3.1 and Application Guide 2.0