Overview
Description
Efficient use of irrigation water applied to crops: irrigation water management, especially addressing field level challenges in arid and semi-arid regions. How information from weather and soil water sensing systems can be used to quantify irrigation amounts required to satisfy crop water requirements. Fundamental principles of pressurized irrigation systems and how to apply these principles to select the characteristics of their main components.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- explain why irrigation water management is important.
- discuss the main challenges faced by irrigated agriculture in arid and semi-arid areas.
- analyze information from weather and soil water sensing systems to determine if a crop needs to be irrigated.
- calculate the irrigation requirements of a crop using information from weather and soil water sensing systems.
- use the AquaCrop software to analyze the effect that different irrigation schedules have on crop development and yield.
- apply basic principles behind the design of pressurized irrigation systems to select the characteristics of main components of drip and sprinkler irrigation systems.
- integrate weather, soil, and crop information to determine when and how much to irrigate a crop using a solid-set sprinkler irrigation system.