GIS for water resource management

This book provides relevant background on GIS that is useful in understanding its advanced applications in water resources engineering. The book has been developed with two primary sections. For the first part of the book (Chapters 1–4), the emphasis is on developing an understanding of the nature of GIS, recognizing how a GIS is used to develop and analyze geographic data, differentiating between the various types of geographic data and GISs, and summarizing data development and database concepts. Primary field-data collection and methods of interpretation and analysis are also introduced. The second part of the book (Chapters 5–12) focuses on the various subdomains of water resources engineering, the data involved, linkage of GIS data with water resource analysis models, and management applications. Applications include watershed hydrologic and groundwater modeling, water and wastewater demand forecasting, pipe network modeling, nonpoint sources of water pollution, floodplain delineation, facilities management, water resources monitoring and forecasting, and river-basin management decision-support systems. The applications include descriptions of GIS database development, analysis background theory, and model integration with the GIS.