McCarthy, Alison ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4595-6447
(2011)
NPSI/IAL travel fellowship 2010: site-specific irrigation control and sensing systems.
Irrigation Australia, 26 (4).
pp. 34-35.
ISSN 0818-9447
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Abstract
Dr Alison McCarthy was awarded the NPSI/IAL Travel Fellowship Award in 2010 and conducted a study tour of the US in March 2011 to investigate the development of sensors and control systems for automated real-time site-specific irrigation. Current research has identified that determining irrigation prescriptions is the greatest difficulty in implementing site-specific irrigation. Alison visited Washington State University, commercial variable-rate irrigation companies in Omaha (Nebraska), and United States Department of Agriculture research stations in Sidney (Montana), Maricopa (Arizona), and Bushland and Lubbock (Texas). She looked at the development of spatial sensors for irrigation control systems, the implementation of variable-rate hardware and work towards autonomous irrigation systems.
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