CEEn 531 - Water Resources Engineering

Dr. Nelson

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.

GIS and Feature Objects 

  1. What is the purpose of coverages in WMS?
  2. What is the basic difference between vertices and nodes?
  3. How is raster data different from vector data?
  4. List the three main components of shape files along with their description.
  5. List at least 3 topological problems that might appear when importing CAD/GIS features/Layers.

Extra Questions:

Here are some extra questions for you to think about. 

  1. When are polygons created?
  2. Why attributes are considered an essential components in GIS?
  3. How similar are the terms “Topology” and “Topography”?
  4. How does the GIS module help in WMS?
  5. List the possible feature objects that are used in WMS along with their attributes.
  6. Can we represent a lined rectangular open drain in WMS? If so, how?