Precision irrigation management using machine learning and digital farming solutions

EA Abioye, O Hensel, TJ Esau, O Elijah, MSZ Abidin… - AgriEngineering, 2022 - mdpi.com
Freshwater is essential for irrigation and the supply of nutrients for plant growth, in order to
compensate for the inadequacies of rainfall. Agricultural activities utilize around 70% of the …

Coupling remote sensing data and AquaCrop model for simulation of winter wheat growth under rainfed and irrigated conditions in a Mediterranean environment

MT Abi Saab, R El Alam, I Jomaa, S Skaf, S Fahed… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
The coupling of remote sensing technology and crop growth models represents a promising
approach to support crop yield prediction and irrigation management. In this study, five …

Effect of essential nutrients on roots growth and lifespan of huanglongbing affected citrus trees

AA Atta, KT Morgan, SA Hamido, DM Kadyampakeni - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Understanding citrus tree root development and dynamics are critical in determining crop
best nutrient management practices. The role of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) …

Assessment of a smartphone application for real-time irrigation scheduling in Mediterranean environments

MT Abi Saab, I Jomaa, S Skaf, S Fahed, M Todorovic - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
The suitability of cloud-based irrigation technologies remains questionable due to limited
information on their evaluation in the field. This study focussed on the on-field assessment of …

Avocado (Persea americana Mill.) trends in water-saving strategies and production potential in a Mediterranean climate, the study case of SE Spain: a review

CRR Pleguezuelo, JRF Martínez, IFG Tejero… - Water scarcity and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this chapter, we present a review of irrigation requirements, water-deficit irrigation
techniques, and the main physiological parameters used to determine water status in …

[HTML][HTML] Surface soil water content as an indicator of Hass avocado irrigation scheduling

E Erazo-Mesa, EH Gómez, AE Sánchez - Agricultural Water Management, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aims to determine whether Hass avocado irrigation can be triggered based on the
surface soil water content (SSWC). To address this question, the soil water dynamics from …

3DBunch: A novel iOS-smartphone application to evaluate the number of grape berries per bunch using image analysis techniques

S Liu, X Zeng, M Whitty - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evaluating the number of berries per bunch is a vital step of grape yield estimation in
viticulture but is a labour intensive task for traditional manual measurement. Therefore, this …

Crop water requirements and irrigation scheduling

M Todorović - … of Water: Science, Technology, and Society, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Crop water requirements represent the amount of water to be supplied to a field to recover
the losses occurred by evaporation and transpiration. Crop water requirements are used for …

Water and soil nutrient dynamics of huanglongbing-affected citrus trees as impacted by ground-applied nutrients

AA Atta, KT Morgan, SA Hamido, DM Kadyampakeni… - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
The decrease in the rate of inflow and outflow of water—and thereby the uptake of plant
nutrients as the result of Huanglongbing (HLB or citrus greening)—leads to a decline in …

Design of electronic devices for monitoring climatic variables and development of an early warning system for the avocado wilt complex disease

JG Ramírez-Gil, GOG Martínez, JGM Osorio - Computers and Electronics in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Quantification of climatic variables such as precipitation and temperature and determination
of their interactions inside the soil profile is very important in avocado systems as a tool for …