Course Details

Selected Chapters of Landscape Water Management

Academic Year 2024/25

CS001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Uncertainty of measured hydrologic data 2. Artificial intelligence methods and their use in water management 3. - 4. Artificial neural networks and their properties and applications to specific tasks 5. - 6. Basics of fluvial geomorphology, application in landcape water management 7. - 8. Small water courses restoration, problems and obstacles, subsidy programmes, model projects 9. Pedotransfer functions and creation of the database HYPRES, software HYDRUS 10. - 11. Introduction to modeling in pedology, pedogenetic models, models of porous systems 12. Infiltration, variability of hydropedological variables 13. Selected lecture on the topic of current practice

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Determination of the uncertainty of point and vertical velocity measured hydrometric propeller 2. - 4. The use of artificial neural networks in predicting the average monthly flow 5. -8. Hydromorphological mapping and evaluation of water courses 9. - 12. Application of sofware HYDRUS (simulation of water flow in the soil profile, ponded infiltration, boundary conditions, complex processing mathematical model)