1. DECISION SUPPORT FOR OPTIMISED IRRIGATION SCHEDULING
- Author
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Cecilia Stanghellini, Frank Kempkes, N. Sigrimis, G. Pasgianos, A. Anastasiou, and D. Sawas
- Subjects
Salinity ,Fertigation ,Decision support system ,business.industry ,Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture ,Web-services ,Irrigation scheduling ,Agricultural engineering ,Horticulture ,Wageningen UR Glastuinbouw ,Wireless sensor networks ,Smart sensor ,Water quality ,Software ,Hydroponics ,Management system ,Environmental science ,Web application ,The Internet ,Precision agriculture ,Precision irrigation ,business ,Water resource management - Abstract
The system, developed under the FLOW-AID (an FP6 project), is a farm level water management system of special value in situations where the water availability and quality is limited. This market-ready precision irrigation management system features new models, hardware and software. The hardware platform delivers a maintenance-free low cost dielectric tensiometer and several low-end irrigation or fertigation controllers for serving different situations. The software includes a complete, web based, Decision Support System (DSS) that consists of an expert planner for farm zoning (MOPECO) and a universal irrigation scheduler, based on crop-water stress models (UNIPI) and water and nutrient uptake calculations. The system, designed also to service greenhouse fertigation and hydroponics, is scalable from one to many zones. It consists of 1) a data gathering tool which uploads agronomic data, from monitored crops around the world, to a central web Data Base (DB), and 2) a web based Decision Support System (DSS). The DSS processes intelligently the data of the crop using Crop Response Models, Nutrient Uptake Models and Water Uptake Models. The central system returns over Internet to the low-end controller a command file containing water scheduling and nutrient supply guidelines
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- 2009