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Elias Sime and Fenta Nigate BNWI/BDU

Report for BNWI Staff

Advanced GIS Application

in Water Resources

Management Training


Contents 1. TRAINING DESCRIPTION ...................................................................................................... 1

2. OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................................... 1

3. Content of the training ....................................................................................................... 2

4. TRAINING METHODOLOGY ................................................................................................. 3

Training Computer Environment .............................................................................................................. 3

5. Planned Schedule .................................................................................................................. 3

6. VENUE ........................................................................................................................................... 3

7. Actual Schedule ..................................................................................................................... 4

8. Result............................................................................................................................................ 4

9. PHOTO PREVIEW DURING EXECUTING THE TRAINING ......................................... 6


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1. TRAINING DESCRIPTION

With many challenges facing the country in the efficient management of the

water/natural resources and the environment in the country, there had been call for

better techniques of environmental research, analysis and monitoring towards

better policy formulation and development in the country. GIS stand as one of the

potential tools for good environmental data collation, analysis and monitoring of

the resources in the country. With the field of Geographical Information System

cutting across different fields and areas of specialization, its application is very

crucial and critical to finding solutions to modern day environmental problems and

natural resources management. The application and integration of GIS technology

into water and other natural resources management is very important in the

effective monitoring, control and management of these resources. The use of

Information Technology and availability of software programs like the GIS program

have a great role to play in resource management, environmental monitoring and

control, spatial data processing, storage, indexing, retrieval, analysis and

communication of spatial information of environmental resource data.

Thus, the aim of the training is to equip researchers with the basics and advanced

application of GIS and RS in water quality, hydrogeology and socioeconomics data

collection, handling, retrieving and analysis.

2. OBJECTIVES

The proposed training builds on a previously conducted training at basic level. It

seeks to provide the knowledge and skills needed to improve the efficiency of

water resources management through the integration of GIS, RS and GPS.

Specifically, the training includes;

1. Introduction to GIS

2. Introduction on Water Resources Information (WRI) database management;

Introduction to additional tools that can be used to

Identifying and mapping environmentally sensitive locations and

3. Using GPS technology to map water resources and environmental data

collection and creation.


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4. Capacity building for continuous monitoring and modelling of water, water

quality and sediment transport in the environment by integrating GIS with

other models.

3. Content of the training

In line with the objectives indicated above, the training content was as mentioned

below.

Table of Content

Date Subject

Part One

Day 1 –Day 4 Lecture 1: Introduction to GIS

Exercise 1: Introduction to ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcToolbox

Lecture 2: Geodesy, Map Coordinate Systems, Projections

Exercise 2:, Georeferncing, Define projection, Digitization

Lecture 3: Spatial Data Models

Exercise 3: Vector Structure and raster structure

Lecture 4: Introduction to Spatial analysis

Exercise 4: Data sources for GIS in Water Resources management, GPS,

Updating, Data extracting, Editing Geospatial data

Lecture 5: Database

Exercise 5: Geodatabase

Exercise 6: Visualization, Map layout

Part TWO

Day 5- Day 8 Lecture 6: Spatial analysis in Water Resources Management:

Tools: Hydrologic Tools and ArcHydro

Exercise 7: Watershed, Stream Network Characterization, Zonal Statistics.

Exercise 8: Derivation of Geomorphological and Morphological Parameters

Exercise 9: Runoff Estimation


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Exercise 10: Water Quality Load Estimation

Exercise 11: Building a Watershed, Hydrogeology Geodatabase

Exercise 12: Water pollution Trace Analysis using Utility Network Analyst

Part Three

Day 9 Lecture 7: Spatial analysis in Water Resources Management:

Tools: HEC-GeoRAS and HEC-RAS

Exercise 8: Introduction to HEC-RAS

Exercise 9: HEC-GeoRAS

Day 10 Lecture 8: Basics of Geostatistics

Exercise 10: Application in socioeconomics, Application in Water Quality,

Application in Hydrogeology

4. TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training has reading materials of the basics, and applied exercises. Readings

for this training will be given out, and links to resources on the web.

Training Computer Environment The training uses ArcGIS version 10.1. Extensions of ArcGIS such as ArcHydro,

Geometric network, Utility Network Analyst, HEC-GeoRAS and Geostatistics and

outside ArcGIS, HEC-RAS were used in the training.

5. Planned Schedule

Sr.No Description Schedule 1 To Field 10/02/2015

2 Training 11/02/2015-23/02/2015

3 Back to B/Dar 24/02/2015

6. VENUE

The training was held in Dangila Town south of B/Dar along the B/Dar to A/A Main

road some 80 km from Regional capital B/Dar.


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7. Actual Schedule

The training was held for 10 days starting from Thursday February 19, 2015 to

Saturday February 28, 2015. Originally the training was intended for 15 days

including the transportation date and it included RS application in water resources

management.

8. Result

The training was initiated mainly by Goraw Goshu and Fenta Nigate with the

understanding of the GIS and its tools are very important for water resources

management analysis and policy decision support and thus researchers working in

the area need to capacitate the use of the tools in their research. The training was

conducted by Elias Sime. A total of 12 BNWI researchers attended the training. The

list of the researchers is in table below. Except few of the researchers who couldn’t

attend the whole training due to some inconveniences most of the researchers

attended the whole part. It was not possible to start the training on the planned

date due to the inconveniences caused mainly by transportation facility

arrangement. However, it was managed to cover all the training contents within the

planned duration. Trainee witnessed that they have got the most out of the training.

Some however, expressed their concern that GIS and its application was their first

time they expressed they may need extra effort to catch up. From the evaluation

we did on the last day the trainee expressed their opinion on the training.

Overwhelmingly, the admired the commitment the BNWI and the B/Dar University

to made possible to fund and arrange such trainings. And, appreciated the way it

was organized and delivered. They also expressed their opinion what they thought

should be corrected in the future for such kind of training organizations and

delivering. They also expressed that they got beyond their expectation in terms of

the importance of GIS application in water resources management and its use.

Future trainings in different areas should also be encouraged to deliver to improve

the capacity of the researchers.

Table: Trainee attended the training

Sr.

No

Name Attendance Remark

1 Goraw Goshu Had some previous knowledge


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2 Fenta Nigatea “

3 Mesenbet Yibeltal “

4 Demese Alemaw “

5 Sisay Asres “

6 Belachew Getnet No previous Knowledge

7 Biazinlign Solomon Had very few

8 Zebasil Tasew No Previous Knowledge

9 Gebeyaw Had Some Previous Knowledge

10 Chalachew Abebe “

11 Dr. Taddesse Tafere No Previous Knowledge

12 Shimeles Aynalem Had some Previous Knowledge Secretarial activities were performed by Sofanit Yirga


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9. PHOTO PREVIEW DURING EXECUTING THE

TRAINING


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