GIS Civil Applications Course

GIS Civil Applications Course Content:

1. Introduction to GIS; engineering applications: utility system maintenance, urban hydrologic
modeling, urban flood control, water supply, water distribution system design, stormwater
quality monitoring/control, sold waste management and hazardous waste management.

2. Introduction to ArcGIS Desktop GIS; exploring the ArcMap interface and ArcCatalog for
spatial data management.

3. GIS spatial data sources on the Internet; creating new data sets from xy events; heads-up
digitizing; GPS for GIS data capture.

4. Spatial data structures in GIS; map projections and coordinate systems; map scale; raster and
vector spatial data models; topology and relational query; selecting and editing features;
displaying and editing tables; joining and linking tables.

5. GIS analysis functions and operations; feature proximity, containment, intersection; spatial
joins; overlays; buffers; geoprocessing; creating/editing spatial data; map display.

6. ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Extension; identifying, displaying, querying and managing grids;
converting grids; resampling and generalizing grid data; spatial analysis.

7. Urban hydrologic modeling in GIS; digital elevation model analysis; time-area watershed
mapping; spatially derived unit hydrographs; least-cost routing; Dijkstra’s algorithm.

8. Urban stormwater runoff modeling in GIS; spatial data requirements for EPA SWMM
model; GIS in urban stormwater management; base map layers; derived maps; zone-risk
analysis.

9. Image processing; supervised and unsupervised classification; image rectification and
resampling; ArcScan Extension for vectorizing raster lines.

10. Utility Network Analyst in ArcGIS; building water networks in ArcCatalog; performing
network analyses; developing network connectivity rules; network validation and editing.

11. ArcGIS Network Analyst Extension; network modeling and analysis; defining cost surfaces;
finding best routes; closest facility; service areas.

12. ArcHydro Tools Extension; watershed and stream network delineation; building an Arc
Hydro geometric network; flow tracing and analysis of hydrologic networks.

13. Application of HEC-GeoRAS for ArcGIS to hydraulic modeling of floodplains (FEMA),
real-time operations, and emergency management.

14. GIS for estimating stormwater pollutant mass loadings; regulatory issues in nonpoint source
pollution; estimation of event mean concentrations; land use impacts on pollutant loadings;
evaluation of BMPs; application of GIS.

15. ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst Extension; geostatistical analysis and interpolation; trend
surface analysis; data smoothing; inverse distance weighted interpolation; kriging; Case
Study: visualizing impacts of river operations on endangered species habitat.

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