CV 711 - GIS Applications in Water Resources Engineering

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits

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• Identify and utilize publicly available datasets to conduct engineering and planning analyses
• Prepare and present data used to develop water and sewer demand forecasts
• Generate and process terrain data input for the HEC-HMS hydrologic model
• Use terrain data to generate watershed limits and stream channel networks
• Use geographic databases to estimate hydrologic parameters
• Use terrain data to establish a stream centerline and cut cross-sections for input into a HEC-RAS hydraulic model
• Using aerial photography and terrain data establish bank stations, overbank flow routes, roughness coefficients and ineffective flow areas for input into HEC-RAS
• Export GIS data into a HEC-RAS input file
• Georeference an existing HEC-RAS model
• Develop mapping of floodplain analysis results
• Present the results of water distribution modeling in GIS format

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• Demand forecasting
• Hydrological modeling
• Floodplain mapping
• Water distribution system data