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Dec 11, 2024
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CVE 6852 - GIS Applications in Civil Engineering2 lecture hours 2 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
Provide comprehensive instruction in the underlying concepts and principles of geographic information system (GIS) technology and its advanced application to the design and analysis of civil, environmental, and transportation engineering systems. The focus is a fundamental understanding of spatial data acquisition, geoprocessing, geostatistical methods, visualization, and querying of spatial data, network modeling, terrain mapping, and spatial analysis. Students are trained to become proficient in the usage of ESRI ArcGIS Pro software through extensive computer lab sessions. Potential applications include urban hydrologic modeling, urban stormwater management, nonpoint source pollution control, ecological assessment, utility and infrastructure management, water, sewer and transportation network analysis, and watershed management. (prereq: CVE 2852 or equivalent coursework or experience) (quarter system prereq: CV 512)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of applying GIS to develop, analyze, and manage spatial data
- Formulate GIS datasets with distributed information civil engineering models for robust analysis of civil engineering systems
- Produce spatial data sets, maps, and graphics that represent the product of civil engineering system modeling and analysis
Prerequisites by Topic
- Basic understanding of ArcGIS software
Course Topics
- Introduction to GIS engineering applications
- Introduction to ArcGIS Pro and related software for spatial data management
- GIS spatial data sources on the Internet; creating new data sets from xy events; heads-up digitizing, GPS for GIS data capture
- GIS analysis functions and operations
- Managing gridded data
- Image processing; supervised and unsupervised classification; image rectification and resampling; vectorizing raster lines
- Geostatistical analysis and interpolation; trend surface analysis; data smoothing, interpolation, kriging
- GIS interface requirements for modeling software in selected applications in the fields of urban hydrologic modeling, urban stormwater management, nonpoint source pollution control, ecological assessment, utility and infrastructure management; water, sewer and transportation network analysis, and watershed management
Laboratory Topics
- Weekly interactive problem-solving sessions that reinforce the weekly lecture topics
Coordinator
Dr. William S. Gonwa, P.E.
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