Spatial Hydrology

This page will contain an outline for a 5 ECTS credit course on spatial hydrology. The course will be offered spring 2007 at [TKK]. The students are assumed to have basic understanding of both hydrology and geoinformatics.

Learning objectives
After the course student


 * understands that hydrological processes are dependent on land cover
 * understands the effect of terrain on hydrological processes
 * knows about various types of geospatial data and their usability in hydrological analysis
 * understands the effect of spatial scale on hydrological processes
 * is able to delineate watersheds from terrain data and understands uncertainties involved in such a procedure
 * is able to compute hydrological indicators (flow path length etc...) from terrain data
 * is aware of different spatial descriptions in hydrological modeling
 * knows about cases how geospatial data has been used in hydrological engineering projects

Lectures (Sessions)
The course is designed to consist of 12 sessions, each 2 to 3 hours.


 * 1) Introductions, introductory lecture (motivation); assignment: ?
 * 2) Data lecture (what, where); workshop: browse, examine, download, see & look
 * 3) Primary terrain parameters
 * 4) Spatial scale
 * 5) Watershed delineation and stream network 1
 * 6) Watershed delineation and stream network 2
 * 7) Lecture: spatial descriptions in hydrological modeling
 * 8) Hydrological description of watershed using terrain data & stream network

Exercises

 * Exercise: A spatial model of a catchment