Course Details

Hydropedology

Academic Year 2025/26

BSA006 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / V Winter Semester 4th year

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

  • 1. Field work – soil sampling, measurement of infiltration.
  • 2.–3. Evaluation of infiltration using the double-ring infiltration method and Minidisk infiltrometer.
  • 4. Physical and mechanical properties of soil.
  • 5. Hydrolimits.
  • 6. Hydraulic characteristics of soil - soil moisture retention curve and hydraulic conductivity.
  • 7. The theory of capillary models for predicting hydraulic conductivity of the course of soil moisture retention curves.
  • 8. Computer program ROSETTA.
  • 9. Computer program RETC.
  • 10. Application of software ROSETTA and RETC.
  • 11.–12. Creating a term paper.
  • 13. Written test.