Appropriate irrigation water management has attracted a considerable degree of attention
because it is crucial to guarantee water and food security worldwide. A smart irrigation …

Availability of fresh water is one of the elementary conditions for life on Earth, however,
water is a limited resource, which is now under an unprecedented pressure by global …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

Tomato production systems in Florida are typically intensively managed with high inputs of
fertilizer and irrigation and on sandy soils with low inherent water and nutrient retention …

Efficient and cost effective ways of irrigation have emerged as the need of the hour due to
limited sweet water resources, especially the countries that are seriously hit by a lack of …

A variety of technologies for reducing residential irrigation water use are available to
homeowners. These “Smart Irrigation” technologies include evapotranspiration (ET)-based …

Seven irrigation scheduling algorithms and an automatic control system along with a
wireless network of soil, thermal and weather sensors were developed and assessed in …

New soil moisture sensor systems (SMSs) for irrigation control have been commercialized in
recent years. However, limited research has been carried out to evaluate their precision to …

Major horticultural crops in Florida are vegetables, small fruit, melons, and tree fruit crops.
Approximately half of the agricultural area and nearly all of the horticultural crop land is …

Improving the efficiency of the agricultural irrigation systems substantially contributes to
sustainable water management. This improvement can be achieved through an automated …