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State-of-the-art GIS spatial data management and analysis tools are revolutionizing the field of water resource engineering. Familiarity with these technologies is now a prerequisite for success in engineers' and planners' efforts to create a reliable infrastructure.
Geographic Information Systems in Water Resource Engineering presents a review of the concepts and applications of GIS in the various sub-fields of water resource engineering. After a summary review of analyses and database functions, the book addresses concepts and applications in the following areas: Surface Water Hydrology Groundwater Hydrology Water Supply and Irrigation systems Wastewater and Stormwater Systems Floodplain Management Water Quality Water Resource Monitoring and Forecasting River Basin Planning and Management The book develops a general understanding of the nature of GIS and how it is used to create and analyze geographic data. The author first introduces primary field data collection methods and describes procedures for interpretation and analysis. The second portion of the book focuses on the linkage of GIS data with water resource analysis and management models. Applications are presented with descriptions of GIS database development, analysis background theory, and model integration with GIS. The profound impact of GIS systems on water resources engineering continues to grow.
Geographic Information Systems in Water Resource Engineering arms engineers and planners with an arsenal of tools to assist in the creation of a reliable, environmentally sensitive, infrastructure. Provides a basic understanding of GIS includes methods of interpretation and analysis Links GIS data with water resource analysis models Presents various water resource applications such as hydrologic modeling watersheds and modeling erosion Describes GIS database development, analysis background theory, and model integration with GIS This title is co-published with CRC Press
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Geographic information systems (GIS) have had a strong influence in the field of water resources. The technology has fostered the development of spatially explicit models to investigate and predict events such as groundwater contamination, nonpoint source pollution, and river flooding. In the first four chapters, Johnson (civil engineering, Univ. of Colorado, Denver) presents a review of GIS concepts necessary to understand the remainder of the book. The rest of the volume (three-fourths of it) consists of the different applications of GIS for water resources. Each chapter in this second section corresponds to a field of study within water resources: surface water, groundwater, water supply, wastewater, floodplain management, water quality, monitoring and forecasting, and river basin planning. For each chapter, Johnson presents the data and software models available, and for some chapters includes short case studies that demonstrate the use of the models. The review of the models is not exhaustive or comprehensive, but it gives readers a good idea of how GIS is being used in water resources. One main drawback of this book is the large number of highly pixelated (fuzzy) figures; most of them seem to be computer screenshots. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty. E. Gomezdelcamp Bowling Green State University
