Neuro-Drip: Estimation of subsurface wetting patterns for drip irrigation using neural networks

Irrigation Science

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 535-544

  Hinnell, A C ^a   Lazarovitch, N ^b   Furman, A ^c   Poulton, M ^d   Warrick, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDED WATER; APPROXIMATORS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CENTER OF MASS; DESIGN ENGINEERS; DISCHARGE RATES; DRIP EMITTER; DRIP IRRIGATION; DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEMS; FLOW SYSTEMS; MOMENT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RADIAL SPREADING; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL DESCRIPTIONS; SUBSURFACE WATERS;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS; IRRIGATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SEEPAGE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MECHANICS; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; WETTING;

WATER CONTENT;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DESIGN; DRIP IRRIGATION; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; WETTING;

EID: 77955713634     PISSN: 03427188     EISSN: 14321319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00271-010-0214-8     Document Type: Article

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