Course title
地域環境工学I   [Rural and environmental engineeringⅠ]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 11  Semester 1st 
Course type 1st  Course code 05ec0001
Instructor(s)
斎藤 広隆   [SAITO Hirotaka]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Agriculture Office afjgxte/L1151  Email address

Course description
Conservation of soil environment plays an important role in global environment such as global warming as well as securing the foundation of human life and agricultural activities. In this course, from the physical aspect of the soil, students will learn the various problems related to fate and transport of chemicals in the soil and learn about the knowledge and method necessary for preserving the soil environment. In addition, exercises on simulating mass transport in soils will be exercised by using the water flow and chemical transport simulating program HYDRUS to predict the fate and transport of chemicals.

In this course, the basic theory of spatial analysis of environmental data using geostatistic (geostatistics) will be also introduced. Students learn about spatial interpolation methods and constructing probabilistic models of spatial data by extracting features of spatial distribution and variation using geostatistical methods.
Expected Learning
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Course schedule
1: Water flow in the soil
2: Heat transport in the soil
3: Chemical transport in in the soil
4: Basic of numerical analysis
5: HYDRUS exercise
6: HYDRUS exercise
7: HYDRUS exercise

8: Basics of history and statistics of geostatistics
9: Semi-variogram
10: Multivariate Geostatistics
11: Random variable
12: Semi-variogram modeling
13: Kriging
14: Weighting factor of kriging

Final presentation
Prerequisites
It is desirable that you take "Soil physics" before.

Comply with the standard hours based on the university rules.
Required Text(s) and Materials
References
Soil Physics, Jury and Horton, Wiley, 2006
Geostatistics for Natural Resources Evaluation, Pierre Goovaerts, Oxford University Press, 1997
Assessment/Grading
Homework 50%, Final report 50%
Message from instructor(s)
Many physical and mathematical expressions will come out, so please consult with the instructor in advance if you are unsure. The lecture is basically given in English.
Course keywords
Office hours
By appointment only.
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Lecture Language
English
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Last update
3/12/2019 3:08:00 PM