Abstract
Problem Statement: In irrigation water management, irrigation water use represents a substantial opportunity for agriculture water savings. Automation of irrigation systems, based on Soil Moisture Sensors Systems (SMSS) has the potential to provide maximum water use efficiency by maintaining soil moisture at optimum levels. Approach: The objective of this research was to evaluate the performance of soil moisture sensors under field conditions during growing season in two different irrigated. This evaluation to be conducted with regard to accuracy; precision; quickness of the response to moisture variation. Moreover to quantify the easiness of use, this encompasses installing and operating the instrument as well as interpreting the readings. Results: The Watermark resulted in higher tension readings than the tensiometers. While Watermark showed a consistent and increasingly drier estimate of water content compared to tensiometers. However, the trend of soil water tension curves that resulted from both treatments was very similar. The linear relationships of the Soil Moisture Content (SMC) obtained from all sensors and gravimetric measurement were observed to be best fit. The correlations (R2) are ranging from 0.96-0.98 and from 0.91-0.95 for tensiometers and watermarks successively. The statistical analyses indicate that changeability existed between soil water contents by the sensors and the gravimetric method. Conclusion: Soil Moisture Sensors Systems (SMSS) can be used: To monitor soil moisture sensors under wheat crop cultivation practices using intelligent irrigation system. The tensiometers and Watermarks were less responsive to the soil drying between irrigations than GM. So, Watermark can operate in a drier range than tensiometers, but with a lower resolution at the wet end of soil water tension. Anyhow, watermark remains a good tool for automatic irrigation scheduling and be integrated with inelegant irrigation systems even the noted drawbacks.
Highlights
Recent technological advances have made soil water sensors available for efficient and automatic operation of irrigation systems
Watermark performed slightly poorer than tensiometer (WCT 60, WIIS 60 and WIIS 30) and displayed a very high discrepancy with the Gravimetric Method (GM) measurements at same depths and Re % is relative bias for (-11.889, -11.288 and -11.068-Table 4) respectively
The research carried out in this study was to high discrepancy with the GM measurements at same monitor soil moisture sensors under wheat crop depths and Re % is relative bias for (-11.889, -11.288 cultivation practices using intelligent irrigation system. and -11.068) respectively
Summary
Recent technological advances have made soil water sensors available for efficient and automatic operation of irrigation systems. Sensors for soil moisture monitoring have been used in various natural resource management practices, such as research on crop yield, watershed management, environmental monitoring, precision agriculture and irrigation scheduling. One such application, which forms the focus of this research, is the role of electrical sensors in irrigation scheduling in economical wheat production. Many studies comparing soil moisture sensors with gravimetric method have been reported in the literature These measurement methods can be classified into direct (gravimetric) and indirect (i.e., soil moisture sensor technologies).
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