NPTEL : NOC:Soil Science and Technology (Agriculture)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Somsubhra Chakraborty


Lecture 1 - Basic Overview of Soil

Lecture 2 - Weathering and Soil Formation

Lecture 3 - Weathering and Soil Formation (Continued...)

Lecture 4 - Weathering and Soil Formation (Continued...)

Lecture 5 - Weathering and Soil Formation (Continued...)

Lecture 6 - Oil Taxonomy and Classification

Lecture 7 - Soil Taxonomy and Classification (Continued...)

Lecture 8 - Soil Taxonomy and Classification (Continued...)

Lecture 9 - Soil Orders, Soil Colour and Texture

Lecture 10 - Soil Texture and Structure

Lecture 11 - Soil Tillage and Soil Density

Lecture 12 - Soil Porosity and Consistency

Lecture 13 - Soil Consistency and Soil Water

Lecture 14 - Soil Water

Lecture 15 - Tutorial

Lecture 16 - Soil Water Movement

Lecture 17 - Qualitative Description of Soil Wetness

Lecture 18 - Soil Air

Lecture 19 - Soil Temperature

Lecture 20 - Tutorial

Lecture 21 - Silicate Clays

Lecture 22 - Silicate Clays (Continued...)

Lecture 23 - Sources of Charges in Soil

Lecture 24 - Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC)

Lecture 25 - Sorption of Pesticides

Lecture 26 - Diffuse Double Layer

Lecture 27 - Adsorption Isotherms

Lecture 28 - Soil Acidity

Lecture 29 - Soil Salinity and Alkalining

Lecture 30 - Submerged Soils

Lecture 31 - Essential Plant Nutrients

Lecture 32 - Soil N

Lecture 33 - Biological N Fixation

Lecture 34 - Soil P and K

Lecture 35 - Fertilizers

Lecture 36 - Soil Testing - I

Lecture 37 - Soil Testing - II

Lecture 38 - Soil Organic Matter

Lecture 39 - Soil Organisms

Lecture 40 - Compost

Lecture 41 - Land Degradation and Soil Erosion

Lecture 42 - Universal Soil Loss Equation

Lecture 43 - Conservation Tillage

Lecture 44 - Wind Erosion and Tillage Erosion

Lecture 45 - Organic Pollutants in Soil

Lecture 46 - Remediation of Organic Pollutant

Lecture 47 - Toxic Inorganic Substances in Soil

Lecture 48 - Removal of Toxic Inorganic Substances

Lecture 49 - Soil Survey

Lecture 50 - Remote Sensing in Soil Survey

Lecture 51 - GIS and GPS

Lecture 52 - Geostatistics

Lecture 53 - Basics of VisNIR - DRS

Lecture 54 - VisNIR-DRS Applications for Soil

Lecture 55 - PXRF Soil Applications

Lecture 56 - Basic Overview of DSM

Lecture 57 - Modeling Continuous Variables

Lecture 58 - Modeling Continuous Variables (Continued...)

Lecture 59 - Modeling Categorical Variables

Lecture 60 - Pedotransfer Functions and Uncertainty of DSM