Course detail
Hydropedology
FAST-BS06Acad. year: 2013/2014
Subject BS06 Hydropedology focuses on the interpretation of soil - water relationships and their role in the hydrological cycle landscape. The basic form of teaching are exercises in which students get acquainted with hydro-physical properties of soil and water infiltration into the soil, but is available pedological models used to derive a prediction of soil properties and to describe the processes that occur in soils. The outcome of the exercise will be a term paper and a test.
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Number of ECTS credits
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
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Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
- attendance in exercises
- assessment of the quality of agricultural land in the selected location
- work with the specialized software
- written examination
- making term paper.
Course curriculum
2.-3. Absorbing capacity of soil - infiltration experiment in situ and its evaluatio
4. Analysis of soil texture: preparation of soil samples, sieve screening, separation in water environment
5. Physical properties of soils, specific weight of soil, volume weight of soils, soil porosity
6.-7. Determination of texture using Casagrande method, soil classification, soil types
8. Determination of soil humidity
9. Hydrolimits: determination of hygroscopic number, wilting point, maximum capilar capacity (Novák), absolute water capacity (Kopecky)
10. Hydraulic characteristics of soil
11. RETC
12. Rosetta
Work placements
Aims
Soil clasification in ČR, types of soil and hydropedological mapping
Physical properties of soil
Hydrolimits
Hydraulic characteristics of soil
Software RETC, Rosetta
Infiltration experiment in situ and its evaluatio
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav a KURÁŽ, Václav a CÍSLEROVÁ, Milena.: Hydropedologie. Nakladatelství ČVUT, 2000. ISBN 80-7157-733-2. (CS)
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav: Vodohospodářská pedologie. SNTL Praha, 1978. (CS)
Recommended reading
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav, NIELSEN, D.R.: Soil Hydrology. Catena Verlang, Germany, 1994. (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
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Exercise
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Syllabus
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 - retention curve and hydraulic conductivity
7. The theory of capillary models for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of the course of soil moisture retention curves
8. Sofware RETC
9. Software Rosetta
10. Application of software RETC
11. Test
12. - 13. Creating a term paper