Course detail

Selected parts of landscape water management

FAST-CS01Acad. year: 2016/2017

Selected chapters from operative hydrology focused on neural network and uncertainties of measurement.
Selected chapters from hydromorphology and river restoration.
Selected parts from hydropedology and basics of modeling of pedology.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Miloš Starý, CSc.

Department

Institute of Landscape Water Management (VHK)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student gains overview of actual problems in water management and the ways of their solution. Each student works on individual solution of selected partial tasks.

Prerequisites

Hydrology, hydraulics, reservoirs and water management systems, soil science and irrigation, river basin protection, drainage structures, ponds, land consolidation, restoration of the river basin

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

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. Selected chapters from meteorology and climatology (climate change)
7. - 8. Selected parts from fluvial morphology
9. Pedotransfer functions, sofware RETC, Rosetta and HYDRUS
10 Introduction to modeling in pedology
11. Models of porous systems - microscopic scale
12. Variability of hydropedological variables
13. Selected lecture on the topic of current practice

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Overview of actual problems in water management and the ways of their solution, individual solution of selected partial tasks

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

STARÝ, Miloš a KRÁLOVÁ, Helena a KAMENÍČKOVÁ, Ivana: Vybrané statě z vodního hospodářství krajiny. VUT FAST v Brně, 2007. [http://www.fce.vutbr.cz/studium/materialy/ucebnice.pdf] (CS)

Recommended reading

CÍSLEROVÁ, Mlena: Inženýrská hydropedologie. ČVUT v Praze, 1989. ISBN 80-01-00052-4. (CS)
Mays, Larry W.: Water Resources Handbook. Hong Kong : McGraw-Hill,, 1996. (EN)
Nacházel, K. - Starý, M. - Zezulák, J. a kol: Užití metod umělé inteligence ve vodním hospodářství. ACADEMIA Praha, 2004. (CS)
Just, T. a kol.: Vodohospodářské revitalizace a jejich uplatnění v ochraně před povodněmi. ZO ČSOP Hořovicko, AOPK ČR a MŽP ČR Praha, 2005. (CS)
KODEŠOVÁ, Radka: Modelování v pedologii. Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze, 2005. ISBN 80-213-1347-1. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch V , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch V , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-P-E-SI Master's

    branch V , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Miloš Starý, CSc.

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Miloš Starý, CSc.