Irrigated agriculture has expanded greatly in the water-rich U.S. northern lake states during the past half century. Source water there is usually obtained from glacial aquifers strongly connected to surface waters, so irrigation has a potential to locally decrease base flows in streams and water levels in aquifers, lakes, and wetlands. During the nascent phase of the irrigation expansion, wate...

Remote sensing has long been a useful tool in global applications, since it provides physically-based, worldwide, and consistent spatial information. This paper discusses the potential of using these techniques in the research field of water management, particularly for ‘Water Footprint’ (WF) studies. The WF of a crop is defined as the volume of water consumed for its production, where green an...

Urban development can produce great impacts on local hydrology reducing infiltration and evapotranspiration, and increasing direct runoff volumes. Runoff control practices are implemented at local scales to control flow discharges and preserve the hydrological cycle. These techniques usually have green infrastructure therefore the application in semiarid and Mediterranean regions requires accou...

drought stress is one of the most important problems of agriculture and an important factor of plant product reduction. application of absorbent materials can help usage of sporadic rain fall and cause more maintenance of water storage. in order to study the effect of super absorbent polymer, potassium sulfate and manure under drought condition and favorable irrigation on some traits of foxtail...

The goal of this work was to develop an easy-to-use and engaging irrigation scheduling tool for cotton which operates on a smartphone platform. The model which drives the Cotton SmartIrrigation App (Cotton App) is an interactive ET-based soil water balance model. The Cotton App uses meteorological data from weather station networks, soil parameters, crop phenology, crop coefficients, and irriga...

Six Napier grass accessions (Penisetum purpuruem) that have been tested and identified for their better agronomic yield performance at different national regional research centers were collected Wondo genet Agricultural Research center under two sets (under irrigation rain fed) conditions.

Proximal gamma-ray spectroscopy is a consolidated technology for continuous and real?time tracing of soil water content at field scale. New developments have shown that this method can also act as an unbiased tool remotely distinguishing rainwater from irrigation without any meteorological support information. Given single detector, the simultaneous observation in gamma spectrum transient incre...

Six Napier grass accessions (Penisetum purpuruem) that have been tested and identified for their better agronomic yield performance at different national regional research centers were collected Wondo genet Agricultural Research center under two sets (under irrigation rain fed) conditions.

Drought stress is one of the most important environmental stresses that have limited the production of wheat, especially in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. To recognize drought tolerant rain-fed wheat genotypes and to determine the best tolerance/susceptibility indices, a study was conducted at the Agricultural Research Station of Miandoab for two cropping years (2013-15). The experime...