The Basics of ArcGIS for Hydrology
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Overview
The Basics of ArcGIS for Hydrology, a course crafted to empower aspiring hydrology professionals, environmental engineers, and GIS enthusiasts. Learn to integrate topographic datasets, streamline watershed delineation, and analyse surface runoff patterns using industry-grade tools. Through this course, you will develop actionable skills in hydrographic network mapping.
By mastering digital elevation models (DEMs), stream orders, and flow accumulation techniques, you’ll gain insights that transform static data into dynamic water management solutions. Each section of the course presents a new layer of depth, encouraging learners to assess hydrological systems with precision using ArcGIS for Hydrology. Strengthen your spatial reasoning through terrain modelling, catchment analysis, and hydrologic flow direction strategies.
Whether you’re preparing to contribute to flood risk analysis, aquifer planning, or environmental conservation projects, this course ensures you are confident in applying ArcGIS for Hydrology in professional contexts. Expand your geospatial toolkit and bring data to life with compelling visual narratives. You won’t just learn software; you’ll build the hydrologic insights to support sustainable decision-making.
Learning Outcome:
- – Apply watershed modelling techniques with ArcGIS for Hydrology
- – Identify drainage networks and streamflow using raster tools
- – Build terrain preprocessing workflows for hydrologic evaluation
- – Create hydrologic networks through slope, aspect, and flow routing
- – Analyse rainfall catchment zones with precision
- – Generate hydrographic maps from topographic and satellite data
Requirements:
- Prerequisites: None
- Age Limit: 16+
- Gadgets: Smart devices and internet
Certification
Once the The Basics of ArcGIS for Hydrology course is successfully completed, the learner can obtain the PDF certificate without any cost. The hardcopy version of the certificate is also available for only £9.99. However, anyone ordering the hardcopy certificate from outside the United Kingdom may need to pay an additional delivery charge.
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Course Curriculum
| Section 01: Introduction to ArcGIS software | |||
| Introduction to ArcGIS software | 00:09:00 | ||
| Selection by Location, attributes, clip features and tables to Excel | 00:11:00 | ||
| Performing actions on the data: change the projections, dissolve, clip | 00:13:00 | ||
| From .TXT and .DXF to shapefile | 00:10:00 | ||
| Calculations with attribute table and KML files in ArcMap | 00:11:00 | ||
| Export from ArcMap to PDF | 00:11:00 | ||
| ArcScene 3D | 00:08:00 | ||
| GIS Example Test | 00:15:00 | ||
| AutoCAD fixing polygon coordinates | 00:14:00 | ||
| Section 02: ArcGIS for Hydrology | |||
| Download hydrological data | 00:06:00 | ||
| Calculate flow direction and flow accumulation | 00:09:00 | ||
| Watershed delineation | 00:10:00 | ||
| Clip layers to watershed boundary | 00:10:00 | ||
| Stream segments and catchments areas | 00:09:00 | ||
| Stream order convert to vector | 00:10:00 | ||
| Spatial join to catchments | 00:11:00 | ||
| Join stream id to stream order | 00:08:00 | ||
| Map data and initial layout | 00:11:00 | ||
| Add and format map elements | 00:14:00 | ||
| Assignment | |||
| Assignment – ArcGIS for Hydrology | 2 weeks, 1 day | ||
| Resource | |||
| Resource – The Basics of ArcGIS for Hydrology | 00:00:00 | ||
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Number of Units:
21 -
Access:
1 Year -
Duration:
2 weeks, 1 day -
PDF Certificate
Included
