Course detail
Landscape water management I
FAST-BS04Acad. year: 2012/2013
Soil science in general, soil-forming processes, soil properties and classification
Basic soil analyses
Hydropedology - soil hydrostatic
Principles of determination of irrigation water demand
Water sources balance, abstraction and treatment of irrigation water
Intake and distribution of irrigation water
Design and calculation of distribution piping network
 Detailed equipment for sprinkle irrigation and micro-irrigation
Irrigation of field and special crops, gardens, greenhouses, parks
Lawn irrigation
Automated irrigation systems
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Oral lectures with Power Point presentations. Lecture of invited specialist with presentation of irrigation eqipment and discussion.
Seminars - laboratory analyses, work on a given project.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
- be present in seminars,
- work out laboratory protocols and irrigation project
- pass test - pedology
- written and oral exam
- hand over his project and its presentation.
Course curriculum
2. Physical properties of soils, soil texture and porosity, sorts of soils
3. Soil structure, soil types, chemical and biological properties
4. Soil water, soil moisture, unsaturated flow , infiltration, evaporation
5. Soil evaluation, soil science research, purification effect of the soils
6. Role and importance of irrigation, irrigation demand, the reasons of the drought, plant and water, irrigation amount
7. Evapotranspiration, water ballance, irrigation regime, quality of irrigation water
8. Irrigation systems layout, water sources, water abstraction
10. Objects, line structures, design of irrigation and system
11. Measurement eqiupment, sprinkler irrigation, irrigation facilities and machines
12. Localized irrigation
13. Automated irrigation systems
Work placements
Aims
Classification of soils in ČR
Basic knowledge of hydropedology
Basic soil analyses
Methods of irrigation
Calculation of water demand
Simple designs of used irrigation methods
Overview of irrigation products and systems used in CR
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Schwab, G.O., Fangmeier, D.D., Elliot, W.J. and Frevert, R.K.: Soil and Water Conservation Engineering. John Wiley&Sons, Inc.New York, 1992. (EN)
Recommended reading
JANDÁK, Jiří a POKORNÝ, Eduard a HYBLER, Vítěslav a POSPÍŠilovÁ, Lubica: Cvičení z půdoznalectví. MZLU v Brně, 2003. ISBN 80-7157-733-2. (CS)
Keller, J., Bliesner, R.D.: Sprinkle and Trickle Irrigation. The Blackburn Press, 2001. (EN)
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav a KURÁŽ, Václav a CÍSLEROVÁ, Milena.: Hydropedologie 10. ČVUT v Praze, 2000. ISBN 80-01-02237-4. (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. - 3. Soil forming factors and processes
4. Physical, mechanic and chemical properties of soils
5. Water in soil
6. Soil hydrostatics - adsorption, capillarity, swelling, soil water potential
7. History of irrigation, role and importance of irrigation, irrigation water demand, reasons of drought, plant and water
8. Types of irrigatio, evapotranspiration, climatic irrigation
9. Sprinkle irrigation, irrigation facilities and machines
10. Irrigation systems layout
11. Micro-irrigation, water quality and treatment
12. Lawn irrigation (parks, sport turf)
13. Automated irrigation systems
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Density and current humidity
3. The apparent density of soil particles
4. Casagrande's test
5. Andrian's test
6. Soil reaction, determination CaCO3, test
7. - 13. Project of field irrigation in South Moravia