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    Geospatial Technologies Application: Estimating A Peak Discharge From A Specific Watershed

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    Geospatial technologies like GIS, GPS, and remote sensing are used to collect, store, manage, and analyze spatial and temporal data across many public and private sectors. In a course on these technologies, students learned how to use GPS to download maps, overlay GPS data, and export data to GIS formats. They also used GIS to create hydrological analyses like flow grids, stream networks, watersheds, and land cover calculations. These skills will help students accurately analyze sites and develop watershed models for future projects.

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    Geospatial technologies like GIS, GPS, and remote sensing are used to collect, store, manage, and analyze spatial and temporal data across many public and private sectors. In a course on these technologies, students learned how to use GPS to download maps, overlay GPS data, and export data to GIS formats. They also used GIS to create hydrological analyses like flow grids, stream networks, watersheds, and land cover calculations. These skills will help students accurately analyze sites and develop watershed models for future projects.

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    Geospatial technologies like GIS, GPS, and remote sensing are used to collect, store, manage, and analyze spatial and temporal data across many public and private sectors. In a course on these technologies, students learned how to use GPS to download maps, overlay GPS data, and export data to GIS formats. They also used GIS to create hydrological analyses like flow grids, stream networks, watersheds, and land cover calculations. These skills will help students accurately analyze sites and develop watershed models for future projects.

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    Geospatial technologies like GIS, GPS, and remote sensing are used to collect, store, manage, and analyze spatial and temporal data across many public and private sectors. In a course on these technologies, students learned how to use GPS to download maps, overlay GPS data, and export data to GIS formats. They also used GIS to create hydrological analyses like flow grids, stream networks, watersheds, and land cover calculations. These skills will help students accurately analyze sites and develop watershed models for future projects.

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    Geospatial

    Technologies Application

    Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and


    remote sensing systems are widely used to collect, store, manage, visualize and
    analyze vast amount of spatial and temporal data. These technologies have found
    application in all types of private and public sectors including agriculture, engineering,
    environment, forestry, and transportation. Working knowledge of these technologies is a
    must learn in many disciplines related to engineering, natural resources, and life
    sciences. This course was designed to bring students to the frontiers of GIS and GPS.
    In one of the GPS labs this semester the class learned how to download a USGS
    topographic map and how to overlay GPS data on a background file, specifically a
    digital aerial photograph and a USGS topographic map. Also, the class learned how
    export GPS data into Arc View shape file. This is important because once field data is
    collected and differentially corrected it is often useful to overlay the data on a
    topographic map or a digital aerial photograph to verify the accuracy of the data. This is
    very useful when working on a project to accurately show the data when trying to apply
    for permits and making sure you comply to regulations.
    In a GIS lab, the class was taught how to create flow direction grid, flow
    accumulation grid, and stream network from Digital Elevation Model (DEM). Along with
    that, we learned how to create a watershed and calculate its area, and how to calculate
    percent land cover types within the watershed. This is important for hydrology analysis.
    This provided a very accurate method for analyzing a specific site. The tools that I
    learned in this lab will help me develop accurate watersheds in later projects. Along with
    developing watersheds, it will allow better calculations for estimating a peak discharge
    from a specific watershed.

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