Abstract
AbstractIncreasing municipal water demand has led to new innovations in water-saving technology. Evapotranspiration-based irrigation controllers, also known as weather-based irrigation controllers, are a technology that use evapotranspiration (ET) estimates to schedule irrigation. Although real-time on-site data collection could help improve data quality, limited data parameters collected or simplified reference evapotranspiration (ETo) estimation methods from an on-site sensor could potentially have an impact on estimated ETo values for stand-alone controllers. Conversely, collection of data from off-site weather stations that are not representative of the local conditions could lead to inaccurate ETo estimations for local irrigation sites. The Weathermatic SL1600 and Toro Intelli-sense controllers were selected for testing because of the different methods of data collection and ETo estimation. This study was conducted in two locations: Wimauma and Gainesville, Florida. In Wimauma the Weathermatic contro...
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