Investigating the effects of soil moisture sensors positioning and accuracy on soil moisture based drip irrigation scheduling systems

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 148, Issue , 2015, Pages 258-268

  Soulis, Konstantinos X ^a   Elmaloglou, Stamatios ^a   Dercas, Nicholas ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Drip irrigation; Irrigation scheduling; Mathematical model; Soil moisture sensors

Indexed keywords

DRIP IRRIGATION; IRRIGATION SCHEDULING; SOIL MOISTURE SENSORS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CALIBRATION; DRIP IRRIGATION; GUIDELINE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POSITIONING; SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84909957478     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: 18732283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2014.10.015     Document Type: Article

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