Course detail
Landscape water management I
FAST-BS04Acad. year: 2009/2010
Soil science in general, soil-forming processes, soil properties and classification
Basic soil analyses
Hydropedology - soil hydrostatic and hydrodynamic
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 spray irrigation and micro-irrigation
Irrigation of field and special crops, gardens, greenhouses, parcs and lawns
Automated irrigation systems
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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
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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
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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)
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