Soil Science and Technology
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur via Swayam
- Provider
Swayam
- Cost
Free Online Course
- Session
Finished
- Language
English
- Certificate
Certificate Available
- Duration
12 weeks long
Overview
This core course is aimed to provide a basic understanding of various aspects of soil science along with some state-of-the-art technologies. The objective is to provide knowledge of different physical and chemical properties of soil. Most importantly this course will impart different preparatory and exploratory data analysis approaches for unconventional digital soil mapping, modeling and mapping of continuous and categorical soil attributes, hyperspectral and proximal soil sensors and their applications for modeling of soil properties, soil pollution and remediation which are not covered in the traditional courses of soil science.
Syllabus
Week 1
Lec1: BASIC OVERVIEW OF SOIL
Lec 2: ECOSYSTEM SERVICES OF SOILS
Lec 3: WEATHERING
Lec 4: SOIL FORMATION
Lec 5: SOIL PROFILE
Week 2
Lec 6: SOIL TAXONOMY
Lec 7: SOIL ORDERS-1
Lec 8: SOIL ORDERS-2
Lec 9: SOIL COLOUR AND SOIL TEXTURE
Lec 10: SOIL STRUCTURE
Week 3
Lec 11: SOIL TILLAGE AND SOIL DENSITY
Lec 12: SOIL POROSITY AND CONSISTENCY
Lec 13: SOIL WATER ENERGY CONCEPTS
Lec 14: MEASUREMENT OF SOIL WATER
Lec 15: TUTORIAL
Week 4
Lec 16: THE FLOW OF LIQUID WATER INTO SOIL
Lec 17: QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF SOIL WETNESS
Lec 18: SOIL AIR
Lec 19: SOIL TEMPRATURE
Lec 20: TUTORIAL
Week 5
Lec 21: SILICATE CLAYS-1
Lec 22: SILICATE CLAYS -2
Lec 23: SOURCES OF CHARGES ON SOIL COLLOIDS
Lec 24: CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITY
Lec 25: SORPTION OF PESTICIDES IN SOIL
Week 6
Lec 26: DIFFUSE DOUBLE LAYER THEORIES
Lec 27: ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS
Lec 28: SOIL ACIDITY
Lec 29: SOIL ALKALINITY AND SALINITY
Lec 30: SUBMERGED SOILS
Week 7
Lec 31: ESSENTIAL PLANT NUTRIENTS
Lec 32: SOIL NITROGEN
Lec 33: BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN FIXATION
Lec 34: SOIL PHOSPHORUS AND POTASSIUM
Lec 35: FERTILIZERS
Week 8
Lec 36: SOIL TESTING-1
Lec 37: SOIL TESTING-2
Lec 38: SOIL ORGANIC MATTER AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Lec 39: SOIL ORGANISMS
Lec 40: COMPOST
Week 9
Lec 41: SOIL EROSION AND LAND DEGRADATION
Lec 42: THE UNIVERSAL SOIL-LOSS EQUATION
Lec 43: CONSERVATION TILLAGE
Lec 44: WIND AND TILLAGE EROSION
Lec 45: TOXIC ORGANIC CHEMICALS IN SOILS
Week 10
Lec 46: REMEDIATION OF SOIL ORGANIC POLLUTION
Lec 47: SOIL CONTAMINATION WITH TOXIC INORGANIC SUBSTANCES
Lec 48: REMEDIATION OF SOIL INORGANIC POLLUTION
Lec 49: SOIL SURVEY
Lec 50: REMOTE SENSING IN SOIL SURVEY
Week 11
Lec 51: GIS AND GPS
Lec 52: GEOSTATISTICS
Lec 53: BASICS OF DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY
Lec 54: DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY FOR SOILS
Lec 55: PXRF SOIL APPLICATIONS
Week 12
Lec 56: OVERVIEW OF DIGITAL SOIL MAPPING
Lec 57: MODELING AND MAPPING OF CONTINUOUOS VARIABLES
Lec 58: MODELING AND MAPPING OF CATEGORICAL VARIABLES
Lec 59: PEDOTRASNFER FUNCTIONS
Lec 60: ACCURACY AND UNCERTAINITY OF DSM