Advances in Sprinkler Irrigation: A Review in the Context of Precision Irrigation for Crop Production

JN Chauhdary, H Li, Y Jiang, X Pan, Z Hussain… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
The non-judicious use of water at the farm level in traditional irrigation application methods
is a present-day concern across the world that can be resolved by enhancing application …

Requirements for sustainable irrigated agriculture

W Loiskandl, R Nolz - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
The aim of this review is to present a holistic view on irrigation with respect to local
environmental and social conditions. Future irrigation development is addressed with a …

[PDF][PDF] Review of intelligent sprinkler irrigation technologies for remote autonomous system.

X Zhu, P Chikangaise, W Shi, WH Chen… - International Journal of …, 2018 - core.ac.uk
Changing of environmental conditions and shortage of water demands a system that can
manage irrigation efficiently. Autonomous irrigation systems are developed to optimize water …

Mapping groundwater abstractions from irrigated agriculture: big data, inverse modeling and a satellite-model fusion approach

O Lopez, K Johansen, B Aragon, T Li… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
The agricultural sector in Saudi Arabia has witnessed rapid growth in both production and
area under cultivation over the last few decades. This has prompted some concern over the …

Machine learning and regression-based techniques for predicting sprinkler irrigation's wind drift and evaporation losses

MA Mattar, DK Roy, HM Al-Ghobari… - Agricultural Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind drift and evaporation losses (WDEL), which can occur as a result of operational and
meteorological factors, are two of the most significant sprinkler-irrigation losses that can …

Evaluating water application efficiency of low and mid elevation spray application under changing weather conditions

A Sarwar, RT Peters, H Mehanna, MZ Amini… - Agricultural water …, 2019 - Elsevier
Over half of the irrigated land in the US, 11.5 million ha, is irrigated with center pivot and
linear move systems. Because of this, minor changes in the operation efficiency of these …

Accurate measurement of wind drift and evaporation losses could improve water application efficiency of sprinkler irrigation systems− A comparison of measuring …

A Sarwar, RT Peters, M Shafeeque, A Mohamed… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wind drift and evaporation losses (WDEL) are some of the major sprinkler-irrigation losses
which exist even in a well-managed irrigation system. Several research studies found a wide …

Using stable water isotopes to assess the influence of irrigation structural configurations on evaporation losses in semiarid agricultural systems

F Al-Oqaili, SP Good, RT Peters, C Finkenbiner… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2020 - Elsevier
The arid areas east of the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest have high irrigation
water use and changing the elevation of sprinkler nozzles in these systems has been …

Mobile drip irrigation (MDI): Clogging of high flow emitters caused by dragging of driplines on the ground and by solid particles in the irrigation water

RD Coelho, AN de Almeida, J de Oliveira Costa… - Agricultural Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mobile drip irrigation (MDI) system is interesting because it combines the efficiency of drip
irrigation with the versatility of center-pivot irrigation; however, experimental information …

Wind drift and evaporation losses of a mechanical lateral-move irrigation system: oscillating plate versus fixed spray plate sprinklers

EB Manke, BG Nörenberg, LC Faria, JM Tarjuelo… - Agricultural Water …, 2019 - Elsevier
The mechanical lateral-move irrigation system has the capacity to achieve high irrigation
efficiency when handled properly; however, during irrigation, wind drift and evaporation …