Course Details

Pedology and Irrigation

Academic Year 2024/25

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.