Course Details
Pedology and Irrigation
Academic Year 2024/25
BS004 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
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. Introduction to hydropedology, soil forming process
2. - 3. Soil forming factors and processes
4. Physical, mechanic and chemical properties of soils
5. Hydropedology - soil moisture and soil moisture measurements
6. Soil hydrostatics - adsorption, capillarity, swelling, soil water potential
7. History of irrigation, role and importance of irrigation, irrigation water demand, reasons of drought, plant and water, types of irrigatio, evapotranspiration, climatic irrigation
8. Sprinkle irrigation, irrigation facilities and machines
9. Irrigation systems layout
10. Micro-irrigation, water quality and treatment
11. Lawn irrigation (parks, sport turf)
12. Automated irrigation systems
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Soil texture - sieve analysis
2. Bulk density and current moisture
3. The apparent density of soil particles
4. Casagrande's test
5. Andrian's test
6. Soil reaction, determination CaCO3, test
7. - 12. Project of field irrigation in South Moravia