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WFM 6202: Remote Sensing and GIS in Water Management © Dr. Akm Saiful Islam
WFM 6202: Remote Sensing and GIS in Water
Management
[Part-B: Geographic Information System (GIS)]
Lab-1: Data Exploration
Akm Saiful Islam
Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM)
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
February, 2007
WFM 6202: Remote Sensing and GIS in Water Management © Dr. Akm Saiful Islam
Task-1:Select Feature by Location
Task1 lets you use the select feature by
location method to select snow courses
within 40 miles of Sun Valley, Idaho, and
plot the snow station data in charts.
What you need:
 idcities.shp with 645 places in Idaho
 snowsites.shp with 296 snow courses in
Idaho and the surrounding states.
WFM 6202: Remote Sensing and GIS in Water Management © Dr. Akm Saiful Islam
Task-2: Query Attribute data from a
relational Database
 Task2 lets you work with the US Map Unit Interpretation
Record (MUIR) database. By linking the tables in the
database properly, you can explore many soil attributes
in the database from any table. And, because the tables
are linked to the soil map, you can also see where
selected records are located.
 What you need:
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mosoils.shp – a soil shape file
comp.dbf – MUIR database
forest.dbf – MUIR database for forest
plantnm.dbf – MUIR database for plant
WFM 6202: Remote Sensing and GIS in Water Management © Dr. Akm Saiful Islam
Task-2: Query Attribute data from a
relational Database
 Task2 lets you work with the US Map Unit Interpretation
Record (MUIR) database. By linking the tables in the
database properly, you can explore many soil attributes
in the database from any table. And, because the tables
are linked to the soil map, you can also see where
selected records are located.
 What you need:
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mosoils.shp – a soil shape file
comp.dbf – MUIR database
forest.dbf – MUIR database for forest
plantnm.dbf – MUIR database for plant
WFM 6202: Remote Sensing and GIS in Water Management © Dr. Akm Saiful Islam
Assignment: Challenge Task
 What you need:
 citites.shp – a shapefile with 194 cities in Idaho
 counties.shp – a county shapefile of Idaho
 idroads.shp – showing major roads in Idaho
• Q1. What is the average rate of population change for
cities that are located within 50 miles of Boise?
• Q2. How many countries that intersect an Interstate
highway have CoChange >= 30?
• Q3. How many cities with CityChange >= 50 are located
within countries with CoChange >=30?