Homework Assignment 3

After running the respective tutorial, read the following set of questions and write half a page paragraph about what you have learned from this lesson. At this point, you should be able to answer these questions or at least have them help you in writing your paragraph.

Post this paragraph, along with a screen capture, or two, developed from the results of the tutorial, to your CE531 homework page, then email the TA (include the URL to your homework page).

Always try to make your assignment page look as nice and professional as possible.

WMS Overview

1.  What does WMS stand for? And how can water resource engineers benefit from it?

2.  What are the primary geographic data that are used extensively by WMS to estimate hydrologic parameters?

3.  What are the basic objectives of using WMS?

4.  In WMS, what function(s) does the edit window perform?

5. What is it that you hope to learn in this class?

Extra Questions:

Here are some extra questions for you to think about.

1. What are the primary geographic data that are used extensively by WMS to estimate hydrologic parameters?

2. “Extracting hydrologic parameters from topographic maps can be tedious”. How do you agree/disagree with this statement?

3. List 3 distinct ways with which watersheds can be delineated in WMS.

4. List 2 or more fields, rather than water resources, that can utilize WMS.

5. How can we delineate drainage basins? Answer from conceptual perspective, you do not need to list steps.

6. “WMS is a sophisticated software that can sort everything out by itself.” Discuss this sentence.