EFFICIENT AGRICULTURE WATER USE IS OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE FOR WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT. CONSEQUENTLY, ACCURATELY DETERMINING EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (ET) IS THE FIRST STEP FOR IMPROVING IRRIGATION EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY AND FOR QUANTIFYING THE ECOSYSTEM WATER BALANCE. SEVERAL APPROACHES FOR DETERMINING ET HAVE BEEN PROPOSED IN LITERATURE, BUT THE RELATION BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW SPATIAL RESOLUTION METHODS STILL REMAINS UNRESOLVED IN IRRIGATION STUDIES AND WATER MANAGEMENT PLANNING.

"EFFICIENT AGRICULTURE WATER USE IS OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE FOR WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT. CONSEQUENTLY, ACCURATELY DETERMINING EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (ET) IS THE FIRST STEP FOR IMPROVING IRRIGATION EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY AND FOR QUANTIFYING THE ECOSYSTEM WATER BALANCE. SEVERAL APPROACHES FOR DETERMINING ET HAVE BEEN PROPOSED IN LITERATURE, BUT THE RELATION BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW SPATIAL RESOLUTION METHODS STILL REMAINS UNRESOLVED IN IRRIGATION STUDIES AND WATER MANAGEMENT PLANNING.

"INVESTMENTS IN THE MODERNIZATION OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS HAVE BEEN A KEY FEATURE IN RIVER BASIN PLANS IN SPAIN, WHERE THE ESTATE HAS INVESTED 3,800 MILLION EUR FOR A SURFACE OF 1,5 MILLION HA (THIS EXCLUDES PRIVATE INVESTMENTS). THIS PROJECT IS AIMED AT INVESTIGATING THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF THE MAIN AGRICULTURAL POLICY HAVING BEEN IMPLEMENTED IN SPAIN IN THE LAST 20 YEARS.

The objective of the FIGARO project is to significantly reduce the use of fresh water on farm level through developing a cost-effective, precision irrigation management platform. The platform will be structured for data acquisition from monitoring devices and forecasting tools, data interpretation, system control, and evaluation mechanisms enabling full decision support for end users at farm scale. These tools will be integrated with multiple state-of-the-art irrigation technologies and strategies as well as newly adapted devices leading to further increased water productivity.

FATIMA addresses effective and efficient monitoring and management of agricultural resources to achieve optimum crop yield and quality in a sustainable environment. It covers both ends of the scale relevant for food production, viz., precision farming and the perspective of a sustainable agriculture in the context of integrated agri-environment management.

The project will design, develop and implement a Future Internet based Sustainable Irrigation Service (FISIS), which will allow end users to increase yield and, at the same time, significantly reduce both economic and environmental cost. FISIS will stimulate social networking and collective awareness among end users, targeting the dissemination of best practices, exchange of opinions, discussions and advice from experts.

The aim of this project is to develop an irrigation management help tool for farmers based on the analysis and the state of the crop assessment (soil or sustrate), offering advice on the frecuency and last of the irrigation. The system make this kind of decision by itself based on the information obtained.

The aim of the project RIEGO-ASESOR is to develop and validate in field conditions a virtual advice integral system (On-Line) to make available an irrigation decision making system to end users. This system is for horticultural crops which are typical in intensive farming in the East of Spain.

Efficient agriculture water use is of crucial importance for water resources management. Consequently, accurately determining evapotranspiration (ET) is the first step for improving irrigation efficiency and productivity and for quantifying the ecosystem water balance. Several approaches for determining ET have been proposed in literature, but the relation between high and low spatial resolution methods still remains unresolved in irrigation studies and water management planning.

PhD: Self-guided drones for tracking irrigation in a cotton field

Integrated program to deliver automated, adaptive, precision irrigation system

Case Study: Maximising production from our limited water resource and unlocking the power of variable rate irrigation INDUSTRY: AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION The Need: Reducing the water required to irrigate crops, thereby increasing the land area that can be irrigated from existing water takes, and reducing the nutrient leaching that can result from over irrigation and cause groundwater contamination. The Solution: Lincoln Agritech has been awarded Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment science funding to develop a novel, cost-effective moisture sensor that is capable of remo

IDFS project aims to develop a new sensor system for providing information on water requirements of plants. This system will be integrated to an existing robot, used for weed control: Anatis.

IrriSmart is a cloud service that implements FAO-56 guidelines for computing crop water requirements from meteorological data and crop coefficients, a key foundation component in decision support systems for irrigation and fertirrigation practices. FAO-56 guidelines provide a standardized guidance to project managers, consultants, irrigation engineers, hydrologists, agronomists and meteorologists for computing crop water requirements for both irrigated and rainfed agriculture and water consumption by agricultural and natural vegetation, allowing a model-based approach in critical business pro

Tomato plays an important role in European agriculture, both from a social and economic view. In the last years, tomato crop is facing hard challenges due to problems in productivity, competitiveness and profitability. Furthermore, climate changes are jeopardizing EU agricultural products. ICT tools could play an important role in this sector. High quality is a must in horticultural products in addition water shortage increases.