Course Details

Selected Chapters of Landscape Water Management

Academic Year 2025/26

NSA013 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIV Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Tomáš Kozel, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Landscape Water Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295713

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Uncertainty of measured hydrologic data.
  • 2. Artificial intelligence methods and their use in water management.
  • 3.–4. Artificial neural networks and their properties and applications to specific tasks.
  • 5.–6. Basics of fluvial geomorphology, application in landcape water management.
  • 7.–8. Small water courses restoration, problems and obstacles, subsidy programmes, model projects.
  • 9. Pedotransfer functions and creation of the database HYPRES, software HYDRUS.
  • 10.–11. Introduction to modeling in pedology, pedogenetic models, models of porous systems.
  • 12. Infiltration, variability of hydropedological variables.
  • 13. Selected lecture on the topic of current practice.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Determination of the uncertainty of point and vertical velocity measured hydrometric propeller.
  • 2.–4. The use of artificial neural networks in predicting the average monthly flow.
  • 5.–8. Hydromorphological mapping and evaluation of water courses.
  • 9.–12. Application of sofware HYDRUS (simulation of water flow in the soil profile, ponded infiltration, boundary conditions, complex processing mathematical model).