Course Details

Use of Geographic information systems in Water management

Academic Year 2024/25

DS77 course is part of 1 study plan

D-K-C-SI (N) / VHS Winter Semester 2nd year

The GIS offers many tools for solving the problem of watershed and nature protection.

Credits

8 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Entry Knowledge

Hydraulic, hydrology, land consolidation

Aims

The goal of education in GIS system is to provide basic information for students about the principles of digital data and technologies.
The student will obtain information about using of Geografic information systems in Water management, focused on complex digital solution of complex project of watershed protection and drainage.

Basic Literature

Burrough, P.A. & McDonnell, R.A: Principles of Geographical Information Systems. Spatial Information Systems and Geostatistics. OXFORD publishing 1998
kolektiv: Using ArcMAP. ESRI Press 2004
kolektiv: Using ArcGIS Spatial Analyst. ESRI Press 2002
MORGAN, R.P.C. a NEARING, M.A: Handbook of Erosion Modelling. Wiley-Blackwell. 2011
JEDLIČKA, J., ŠTYCH, P. Hydrologické modelování v programu ArcGIS. Praha: CITT Praha, GMES, 2007. 62 s (cs)
MAIDMENT, D. R. Consortium for GIS in Water Resources to Design New Object Models [online]. 2008. Dostupný na World Wide Web: <http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/winter9900articles/32-consortium.html>. (en)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Landscape GIS, Digital maps operation 2.Digital data,GIS application in watermanagement system,GIS products for Watermanagement and Environmental protection 3.GIS spatial analyssis 4. Digital elevation modela,Atlas DEM, Erosion and hydrolic application 5.GIS analyssis for hydrolic modelling 6.GIS fom Watermanagement-general owerview,GIS application for river basin management organizations 7-13.GIS for water resources protection,water-supply system and canalization sewer system,GIS for cadaster register of real estate land consolidation and town and country planning.