The Basics of ArcGIS for Hydrology

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:

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.

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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