Precision Irrigation Strategies for Sustainable Water Budgeting
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2021) | Viewed by 4390
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Interests: to calculate, understand and interpret the effects of climate change on water resources for their efficient use for sustainable agriculture through precision water management
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Interests: precision agriculture; sensing and control systems; deep learning; variable rate technologies; environmental sustainability
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Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is affecting agricultural production of countries responsible for producing food and fibre for the rest of the world. Incidents of droughts have been increasingly common in areas of rainfed agriculture. The irrigated agriculture is facing challenges in terms of having enough water in dams, canals, and thus in irrigation watercourses. Supplemental irrigation is now the need of the hour for sustainable agricultural production. Regardless of the nature of a region (rainfed versus irrigated), precision irrigation has shown promise in coping with the situation. Accurate water budgeting is needed to strategise sustainable agricultural production. Therefore, this journal aims at publishing the related research, modelling and/or review work.
SCOPE
This Special Issue on “Precision Irrigation Strategies for Sustainable Water Budgeting” welcomes submissions related to the concepts summarized in the aims of the journal, and not limited to the following topics:
- Estimation of fluctuations in groundwater levels;
- Factors affecting fluctuations in groundwater levels;
- Historical trends in precipitation;
- Future prediction of precipitation;
- Estimation of evapotranspiration or crop water requirements;
- Irrigation scheduling for horticultural, vegetable and grain crops;
- Surface runoff from agricultural fields and streamflow (quantity versus quality);
- Impact of crop irrigation on environmental pollution;
- Economic and environmental aspect of crop irrigation;
- The use of deep neural networks, deep learning and machine vision in estimating water cycle components;
- Irrigation application techniques and methods;
- The use of GIS and remote sensing for estimation of soil water content, droughts and soil saturation status;
- Soil and crop sensing to estimate soil water content and crop water requirements;
- Conventional and precision water management strategies;
- Water resources and management for sustainable agriculture under climate change scenarios;
- Treatment of the wastewater to make it reusable for irrigation at small and large scales;
- Crop nutrient management in relation to irrigation water management;
- Effect of soil physical, chemical and hydrological properties on soils’ ability to retain soil water content;
- All other soil–crop–water-related work.
Dr. Farhat Abbas
Dr. Aitazaz A. Farooque, P.Eng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Climate change and water budgetting
- Groundwater resource estimation and use
- Neural networks for water research
- Geoscience and remote sensing of soil water content
- Soil-crop-water relationships
- Precision water management
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