Course Details

Hydropedology

Academic Year 2024/25

BS006 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1st Field work - soil sampling, measurement of infiltration 2nd to 3rd Evaluation of infiltration using the double-ring infiltration method and Minidisk infiltrometer 4th Physical and mechanical properties of soil 5th Hydrolimits 6th Hydraulic characteristics of soil - soil moisture retention curve and hydraulic conductivity 7th The theory of capillary models for predicting hydraulic conductivity of the course of soil moisture retention curves 8th Sofware Rosetta 9th Software RETC 10th Application of software rosetta and RETC 11th to 12th Creating a term paper 13th Written test