RESEARCH ON HYDROLOGIC MODELING USING GIS

Doctoral Dissertation

• Spatially Distributed Modeling of Storm Runoff and Non-Point Source Pollution Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Texas at Austin.

Conference Papers and Workshop Presentations

• GIS Tools for HMS Modeling Support presented at the 1999 ESRI User's Conference, San Diego, California, 1988.
• Surface Water Availability in Large Hydrologic Systems presented by Francisco Olivera at the Millennium Assessment of the State of the World's Ecosystem Ecosystem Expert Meeting sponsored by World Resources Institute (WRI), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and World Bank, Washington DC, February 10-11, 1999. Overheads.
• HEC-PrePro v. 2.0: An ArcView Pre-Processor for HEC's Hydrologic Modeling System presented at the 1998 ESRI User's Conference, San Diego, California, 1988.
• GIS for Hydrologic Data Development for Design of Highway Drainage Facilities by Francisco Olivera and David R. Maidment, presented at the Transportation Research Board 77th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Jan. 11-15, 1998. Overheads.
• Water Balance of the Niger River Basin in West Africa presented at the 1997 ESRI User's Conference, San Diego, California, 1997. Overheads.
• Runoff Computation Using Spatially Distributed Terrain Parameters presented at the ASCE North American Water and Environment Congress '96, Anaheim, California, 1996.
• Mean-Annual Water Balance of the Niger River, West Africa presented at the UNESCO Symposium on Runoff Computations for Water Projects, St. Petersburg, Russia, Oct. 30 - Nov. 3, 1995.

Sponsored Projects

• CRWR-PrePro sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Hydrologic Engineering Center.
• Closing the Global Water Cycle in Fully-Coupled Climate System Models:Terrestrial Hydrology and River Transport for the NCAR CSM Land Component sponsored by NSF grant ATM-9617980.
• City of Austin CD-ROM description sponsored by the City of Austin.
• City of Austin Water Quality Master Planning - GIS Model sponsored by the City of Austin
• System of GIS-Based Hydrologic and Hydraulic Application for Highway Engineering sponsored by the Texas Department of Tranportation (TxDOT).
• Digital Atlas of the World Water Balance sponsored by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Organization (UNO) and the US National Committee on Scientific Hydrology
• Water Balance of the Souss Basin, Morocco sponsored by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Organization (UNO)

Programs, Exercises, Useful Tools and Similar "Fun Stuff"

• CRWR-Vector v. 1.1: An ArcView Extension for Analysis of Vector Data. Documentation. ArcView extension file: vector11.avx.
• CRWR-Raster v. 1.0: An ArcView Extension for Analysis of Raster Data. Documentation. ArcView extension file: raster10.avx.
• Intensity - Duration - Frequency Maps of Texas sponsored by the Texas Department of Tranportation (TxDOT).
• Spatial Hydrology of Portugal and Spain - Overheads
• Spatial Hydrology of the Urubamba River System in Peru, South America
• Inland Catchments AML
• Resampling a "flow direction" grid - AML
• Rotating earth

Last updated: July 7, 2000

Francisco Olivera