Course Details
Hydropedology
Academic Year 2022/23
BSA006 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / V Winter Semester 4th year
Subject Hydropedology focuses on interpretation of soil-water relations and their role in the protection of agricultural land. The basic form of teaching are exercises in which students get acquainted with the physical and hydraulic properties of the soil, hydrolimits and infiltration of water into the soil. In use of models in pedology students learn how to gather and analyze the resulting data from the available computer programs RETC (van Genuchten et al., 1991) and Rosetta (Schaap, 2003).
The beginning of the semester takes place in the fields and during the semester the pedological laboratory is visited.
Completion of the course is a written test and submission of all forms.
Credits
3 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
Entry Knowledge
Students process measurements from the field and from the laboratory into protocols. This will give them a general overview of hydropedology issues.
Aims
Physical properties of soil
Infiltration experiment in situ and its evaluation
Hydrolimits
Hydraulic characteristics of soil
Software RETC, Rosetta
Syllabus
1. Introductory lesson, work in the field (collection of broken and intact sample)
2. Work in the field: measurement with a Minidisk infiltrometer
3. Work in the field: measurement of infiltration by the two-cylinder method
4. Evaluation of measurements with a Minidisk infiltrometer
5. Evaluation of infiltration by the two-cylinder method
6. Evaluation of infiltration by the two-cylinder method
7. Soil hydrolimits - analysis of an intact soil sample
8. Hydraulic characteristics of soil: hydraulic conductivity
9. Hydraulic characteristics of soil: retention line
10. RETC program
11. ROSETTA program
12. - 13. Credit test, completion of protocols
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of mathematics, physics, hydraulics and hydrology.
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
The definition of controlled teaching and the method of its implementation is specified at the beginning of the semester in the practice session.
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introductory lesson, work in the field (collection of broken and intact sample)
2. Work in the field: measurement with a Minidisk infiltrometer
3. Work in the field: measurement of infiltration by the two-cylinder method
4. Evaluation of measurements with a Minidisk infiltrometer
5. Evaluation of infiltration by the two-cylinder method
6. Evaluation of infiltration by the two-cylinder method
7. Soil hydrolimits - analysis of an intact soil sample
8. Hydraulic characteristics of soil: hydraulic conductivity
9. Hydraulic characteristics of soil: retention line
10. RETC program
11. ROSETTA program
12. - 13. Credit test, completion of protocols