GIS Applications In Environmental & Water
Resources Engineering
March 22, 2002
Abstract
This paper is an extensive
overview of the recent applications of Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) in the domain of environmental and water resources engineering.
The reader is first concisely acquainted with the fundamentals of any GIS to
help him develop an appreciation of its basic technical aspects, which are
prerequisite to understanding the other application-oriented sections of this
paper. Such applications are presented in the form of tailored case studies
demonstrating various GIS analysis techniques/approaches applied to a diversity
of real-life engineering endeavors in the environmental and water resources
sector.
Complying with the ‘Water Supply
& Sewage Works Design’ course requirements, this paper is specifically
addressed to the course professor, Dr. G. Ayoub, and my fellow colleagues.
Neither does it address a totally lay audience nor a team of GIS specialists,
but rather a group of interested senior students with basic engineering
knowledge, sufficient computer literacy, and minimal GIS know-how. This also
applies to the assortment of applications yet to be discussed. The selection
criterion was their relevance to familiar topics and problems of interest
rather than representing the full scale of GIS applications.
q Data Acquisition & Registration
Map
Projections & Coordinate Systems