Site-specific variable-rate irrigation as a means to enhance water use efficiency

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 239-249

  O'Shaughnessy, S A ^a   Evett, S R ^a   Andrade, M A ^a   Workneh, F ^b   Price, J A ^b   Rush, C M ^b  

^a Agriculture Research Service   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Irrigation management; Moving irrigation systems; Prescription maps; Sensor networks; Variable rate irrigation

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; DATA HANDLING; DIGITAL STORAGE; EFFICIENCY; IRRIGATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER SUPPLY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL DATA PROCESSING; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT; IRRIGATION SYSTEMS; PRESCRIPTION MAP; SPRINKLER IRRIGATION; VARIABLE RATE IRRIGATIONS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

SPRINKLER SYSTEMS (IRRIGATION);

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; FURROW IRRIGATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER UPTAKE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84960863264     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13031/trans.59.11165     Document Type: Article

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