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.