Course Details
Pedology and Irrigation
Academic Year 2025/26
BSA005 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / V Summer Semester 3rd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 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, reasons of drought, plant and water, evapotranspiration, types of irrigation.
- 8. Irrigation water demand; water resources, quality and treatment.
- 9. Pumping stations, water distribution. Sprinkle irrigation, irrigation facilities and machines.
- 10. Lawn irrigation (parks, sport turf). Automated irrigation systems.
- 11. Micro-irrigation, drip irrigation. Irigatin of orchards, vineyards, vegetables.
- 12. Gravitational, fertilized and special types of irrigation. Climatic and antifrost irrigation.
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.