Assessing Flood Risk on the Texas Gulf Coast

LU_Barb.zip

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Learning Unit Description:

The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information System (GIS) instruction. The Flood Risk Assessment LU, by Barbara DuFrain of Del Mar College, uses real world data and methods to identify flood risk in the Oso Creek-Nueces Rio Grand-Coastal Basin. Students work together in teams use LandSat images and other spatial data to carry out analysis, build, and test a model using slope, aspect, land use, precipitation, and run off as factors for flood risk for different areas of land use and land cover.

The iGETT Learning Units amount to about two weeks of instruction and are designed for use both as “skills-based case studies and building blocks for new courses.” All LUs are intended for students with a basic understanding of GIS. Each LU includes three core documents, an instructor’s guide, a student guide, and a curriculum support document, as well as the remote sensing data needed to complete the unit. This LU requires about six weeks of class time to complete lectures and associated lab work, with the option to extend team project work time an additional two to four weeks for completions and presentation of group findings.

Upon completion of the lesson, students should be able to evalute the impact of urban development on the watershed through use of Land Use Change Detection (LUCD) datasets, use GIS and remote sensing data to identify factors that impact flooding, work in teams and present findings.

For orientation purposes, viewers should begin with Dufrain_Thumbnail.pdf, which offers a description of the LU as well as an overview of topics covered, required software, and the intended audience.

Lesson Contents:

The attached files associated with this LU exist in a variety of formats and a variety of geospatial data file types.

Below is a list of the files contained within the .zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

LU_Barb (LU_Barb.zip)

Documents
- Lesson Overview (Dufrain_Thumbnail.pdf 119KB)
- Curriculum Support Document (Flood_DuFrain_CS.pdf 27KB)
- Instructor Guide (Flood_DuFrain_IG.pdf 34KB)
- Student Guide (Flood_Dufrain_SG.pdf 1.6MB)
- Tools to Examine Land Change presentation (FloodRisk_DuFrain_062008_Part_1_PP.ppt 9.9MB)
- Remote Sensing - Becoming Familiar presentation (FloodRisk_DuFrain_062008_Part2.ppt 9.1MB)
Data
- L7_2002.11.22_p26r41 (L7_2002.11.22_p26r41.zip 196.3MB)
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- L5_1992.11.02_p26r41 (L5_1992.11.02_p26r41.zip 106.2MB)
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  - (p026r041_5t19971218_b10.tif 49.9MB)
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  - (CN-paper.pdf 428KB)
  - (Final Tables - NRG.doc 114KB)
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- Data_iGett1 (Data_iGett1.rar 184MB)
  - Business
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  - dell (214 data files, 20.1MB)
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  - GRID (108 data files, 51.4MB)
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  - (OsoBay.mxd 83KB)
- Data_Files3 (Data_Files3.rar 115.2MB)
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  - (Final Tables - NRG.zip 318KB)
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  - (TXXXXXCB.zip 3.7MB)
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