ANNOUNCEMENTS - May 11, 2010

• Our final exam is scheduled for Tuesday, May 18, 2010 from 6:30 - 9:30 PM in the Science Center, 2nd floor, room 66
• The slides for our final review are available to help you prepare for the final exam
• Slides from graduate student presentations of papers are now linked below

David E. Tenenbaum, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston

Lecture: S-3-20, Tuesdays 5:30 - 8:00 PM
Office Hours: S-1-60, Mondays 1:00 - 2:00 PM, Tuesdays 1:00 - 2:00 PM, Wednesdays 1:00 - 2:00 PM, or email

Yun Yang

Email: yun.yang001@umb.edu

Office Hours: S-3-20, Mondays 3:00 - 5:30 PM, Tuesdays 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM, Thursdays 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM, some Fridays between Noon - 4:00 PM

• Syllabus

• January 26, 2010 - Course Introduction, Raster GIS and Map Algebra
  • Slideshow - Course Introduction, Raster GIS and Map Algebra
  • Exercise 01 - Vector to Raster Conversion and the Raster Calculator

• February 2, 2010 - Geographic Surfaces and their Properties
  • Reading - Maxwell JC. 1870. On hills and dales. Philosophical Magazine, 40:421-427.
  • Reading - Mark DM. 1978. Topological properties of geographic surfaces: Applications in Computer Cartography. Harvard Papers on Geographic Information Systems, no. 5. (Slides)
  • Slideshow - Geographic Surfaces and their Properties
  • Exercise 02 - Watershed Delineation from Elevation Contours

• February 9, 2010 - Gridded Digital Elevation Models
  • Reading - Marks D, Dozier J, and J Frew. 1984. Automated basin delineation from digital elevation data. Geoprocessing, 2:299-311.
  • Reading - Jenson SK and JO Domingue. 1988. Extracting topographic structure from digital elevation data for geographic information systems analysis. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 54(11):1593-1600. (Slides)
  • Slideshow - Gridded Digital Elevation Models
  • Exercise 03 - Watershed Delineation from DEMs

• February 16, 2010 - Stream Networks and Drainage Basin Structure
  • Reading - Tenenbaum DE. 1998. Watershed modeling. GEOG 202 Term Paper.
  • Reading - Band LE. 1986. Topographic partition of watersheds with digital elevation models. Water Resources Research, 22(1):15-24.
  • Slideshow - Stream Networks and Drainage Basin Structure
  • Exercise 04 - Stream Networks from DEMs

• February 23, 2010 - Topographic Moisture Indices
  • Reading - Beven KJ and MJ Kirkby. 1979. A physically based, variable contributed area model of basin hydrology. Hydrological Sciences Bulletin ,24:43-69. (Slides)
  • Reading - Quinn PF, Beven KJ, and R Lamb. 1995. The ln(a/tanB) index: How to calculate it and how to use it within the TOPMODEL framework. Hydrological Processes, 9:161-182. (Slides)
  • Slideshow - Topographic Moisture Indices
  • Exercise 05 - Calculating Topographic Moisture Index

• March 2, 2010 - Representing Flow Divergence
  • Reading - Dawes WR and D Short. 1994. The significance of topology for modeling the surface hydrology of fluvial landscapes. Water Resources Research, 30:1045-1056.
  • Reading - Tarboton DG. 1997. A new method for the determination of flow directions and upslope areas in grid digital elevation models. Hydrological Processes, 9:161-182. (Slides)
  • Web Page - Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models (TauDEM)
  • Exercise 06 - Comparing the D8 and D-infinity Methods

• March 9, 2010 - Mid-term Examination Review
  • Slideshow - Mid-term Examination Review

• March 16, 2010 - Spring Vacation

• March 23, 2010 - Mid-term Examination

• March 30, 2010 - Landscape Representation for Modeling
  • Reading - Band LE, Patterson P, Nemani RR and SW Running. 1993. Forest ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: incorporating hillslope hydrology. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 63:93-126. (Slides)
  • Reading - Band LE, Brun SE, Fernandes RA, Tague CL and DE Tenenbaum. 2000. Modelling watersheds as spatial object hierarchies: Structure and dynamics. Transactions in GIS, 4(3):181-196. (Slides)
  • Slideshow - Landscape Representation for Modeling
  • Exercise 07 - Creating Zones and Patches from DEM, LULC, and Soils Data

• April 6, 2010 - Evapotranspiration and the Bowen Ratio
  • Reading - Hornberger GM, Raffensperger JP, Wiberg PL, and KN Eshleman. 1998. Elements of Physical Hydrology. Johns Hopkins University Press, USA. Ch. 2: Catchment hydrology: Land-atmosphere interactions, 30-38. (Slides) (Terms and Equations)
  • Reading - Waring RH and SW Running. 1998. Forest Ecosystems, Analysis at Multiple Scales, 2nd ed. Academic Press, USA. Ch.2, Water cycle, 22-28. (Slides)
  • Slideshow - Evapotranspiration and the Bowen Ratio
  • Exercise 08 - Using the Bowen Ratio to Estimate Evaporation

• April 13, 2010 - Remote Sensing of Land Surface Temperature and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
  • Reading - Price JC. 1984. Land surface temperature measurements from the split window channels of the NOAA 7 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. Journal of Geophysical Research, 89(D5):7231-7237. (Slides)
  • Reading - Goward SN. 1989. Satellite bioclimatology. Journal of Climate, 2:710-720. (Slides)
  • Slideshow - Remote Sensing of Land Surface Temperature and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
  • Exercise 09 - Creating LST and NDVI from Brightness Temperature and Reflectance Data

• April 20, 2010 - Using LST and NDVI to Assess Regional Surface Moisture Condition
  • Reading - Nemani RR and SW Running. 1989. Estimation of regional surface resistance to evapotranspiration from NDVI and thermal-IR AVHRR data. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 28(4):276-284. (Slides)
  • Reading - Nemani RR, Pierce L, Running SW and S Goward. 1993. Developing satellite-derived estimates of surface moisture status. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 32:548-557. (Slides)
  • Slideshow - Using LST and NDVI to Assess Regional Surface Moisture Condition
  • Exercise 10 - Calculating Sigma from LST-NDVI Data

• April 27, 2010 - Using LST and NDVI to Map Per-Pixel Surface Moisture Condition
  • Reading - Sandholt I, Rasmussen K and J Andersen. 2002. A simple interpretation of the surface temperature/vegetation index space for assessment of surface moisture status. Remote Sensing of Environment, 79:213-224. (Slides)
  • Reading - Andersen J, Sandholt I, Jensen KH, Refsgaard JC and H Gupta. 2002. Perspective in using a remotely sensed dryness index in distributed in hydrological models at the river-basin scale. Hydrological Processes, 16:2973-2987. (Slides)
  • Slideshow - Using LST and NDVI to Map Per-Pixel Surface Moisture Condition
  • Exercise 11 - Calculating TVDI from LST-NDVI Data

• May 4, 2010 - Examining the Relationship between TVDI and Antecedent Precipitation
  • Reading - Nelson BR, Kim D, Bates JJ and DJ Seo. 2006. Multi-sensor precipitation reanalysis. American Meteorological Society 2006 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Jan. 29 – Feb. 2, 2006. Paper #4.6. (Slides)
  • Reading - Dunne T and LB Leopold. 1978. Water in Environmental Planning. W.H. Freeman and Company, USA. Ch. 10, Calculation of flood hazard, 287-290, 366-367. (Slides)
  • Slideshow - Examining the Relationship between TVDI and Antecedent Precipitation
  • Exercise 12 - Using Correlation Coefficients to Compare TVDI and API

• May 11, 2010 - Final Examination Review
  • Slideshow - Final Examination Review