Sustainability of rice production under limited water conditions is threatened by increasing irrigation water scarcity. Therefore, physiological and morphological responses of rice to varying water stress management strategies should be determined. The physiological and morphological responses of a semi dwarf rice (Hashemi cultivar) to water stress intensities (mild and severe, i.e., short-dura...

The present paper discusses a coupled gridded crop modeling and hydrologic modeling system that can examine the benefits of irrigation and costs of irrigation and the coincident impact of the irrigation water withdrawals on surface water hydrology. The system is applied to the Southeastern U.S. The system tools to be discussed include a gridded version (GriDSSAT) of the crop modeling system DSS...

This paper presents a novel method that controls a dialogue between a spoken dialogue system and a user efficiently so that the system responds as helpfully as possible within the limits of its knowledge. Due to speech recognition errors, a system and user must engage in a “confirmation dialogue” to clarify a user’s request. Although a confirmation dialogue is unavoidable, it should be as conci...

Iran Urmia Lake, the world second largest hypersaline lake, has been largely desiccated over the last two decades resulting in socio-environmental consequences similar or even larger than the Aral Sea disaster. To rescue the lake a new water management plan has been proposed, a rapid 40% decline in irrigation water use replacing a former plan which intended to develop reservoirs and irrigation....

Stomatal responsiveness to evaporative demand (air vapour pressure deficit (VPD)) ranges widely between species and cultivars, and mechanisms for stomatal control in response to VPD remain obscure. The interaction of irrigation and soil moisture with VPD on stomatal conductance is particularly difficult to predict, but nevertheless is critical to instantaneous transpiration and vulnerability to...

in order to study effect of foliar application of iron and zinc on yield and yield components of autumn rapeseed (brassica napus l.) under limited irrigation an experiment was conducted at research farm of agricultural faculty of urmia university in 2009. the experiment was designed in split plot based on randomized complete block design with 3 replications. treatments were drought (irrigation ...

Site-specific irrigation is defined as delivering different prescribed depths of water to specific areas in irrigated fields. Since the 1990s, site-specific irrigation research has been expanded to include the delivery of water and nutrients to specific field areas based on soil type, soil moisture status, crop needs, and other user-defined objectives. A site-specific center pivot irrigation sy...

Objectives/Goals An enormous amount of real-time information that is available on the Internet can be accessed and used in traditional control systems to improve performance. The objective of this project is to design and build an autonomous control system that manages an irrigation system to save water using Internet-obtained weather forecasts and local-obtained rainwater level information. Me...

Iran is a large producer of agricultural products. Irrigation water resources are limited and the water use efficiency is low. The micro irrigation system (MIS) is a versatile management tool that can increase water productivity. Although micro irrigation has a lot of advantages, some of its disadvantages are its difficult and time-consuming design. Economical analysis of the design is one of t...