GIS in Landscape Engineering

Garant předmětu:

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Landscape Water Conservation

Synopsis:

The subject is focussed on applied GIS project in Landscape protection. Using raster based GIS analyses the students model soil erosion and sediment transport in a spatially distributed way and design protection measures against erosion. Verification study is included.

Requirements:

Final report

Syllabus of lectures:

1Source layers overview, concept of erosion modelling

2Factor R

3Land use map and factor C

4Factor K

5DEM preparation

6LS factor

7Factor P

8Soil loss – USLE method

9Sediment transport – Sediment Delivery Ratio

10Reservoir trapping efficiency

11Sediment amount measurement and calculation – reservoir

12Scenarios of soil protection

Syllabus of tutorials:

following the lectures

Study Objective:

The aim is to tech methods of GIS application in Landscape planning and protection including data assimilation, pre-processing, spatial analyses including raster algebra ans spatial statistics, modeling, editing and visualisation techniques.

Study materials:

(1) materials obtained at the course

(2) ArcGIS tutorials: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/Tutorials/

(2) D. W. (2001): Geographic Information Systems and Science, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471892750, 472 p.

Note:

Further information:

http://storm.fsv.cvut.cz/pro-studenty/predmety/

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: