Integration of irrigation district personnel with canal automation projects

Stringam, Blair L.; Gill, Tom; Sauer, Brian W.

doi:10.1007/s00271-015-0477-1

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“…Several authors [50,[64][65][66] present studies demonstrating this in several regions, like Mauritania, southwestern United States, Southern Ethiopia, and the Mediterranean. (iii) Recommend further studies in the canal supply system maintenance and monitoring, aiming higher reliability, efficiency, and automaticity, and to achieve a higher level of water, energy, and labor savings [67]. Discharge measurement, debris and trash water cleaning, and water loss control are the main issues.…”

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Developing Irrigation Management at District Scale Based on Water Monitoring: Study on Lis Valley, Portugal

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Irrigation districts play a decisive role in Portuguese agriculture and require the adaptation to the new water management paradigm through a change in technology and practices compatible with farmers’ technical know-how and economic sustainability. Therefore, improvement of water management, focusing on water savings and increasing farmers’ income, is a priority. In this perspective, an applied research study is being carried out on the gravity-fed Lis Valley Irrigation District to assess the performance of collective water supply, effectiveness of water pumping, and safety of crop production due to the practice of reuse of drainage water. The water balance method was applied at irrigation supply sectors, including gravity and Pumping Irrigation Allocation. The average 2018 irrigation water allocated was 7400 m3/ha, being 9.3% by pumping recharge, with a global efficiency of about 67%. The water quality analysis allowed identifying some risk situations regarding salinization and microbiological issues, justifying action to solve or mitigate the problems, especially at the level of the farmers’ fields, according to the crops and the irrigation systems. Results point to priority actions to consolidate improved water management: better maintenance and conservation of infrastructure of hydraulic infrastructures to reduce water losses and better flow control; implementation of optimal operational plans, to adjust the water demand with distribution; improvement of the on-farm systems with better water application control and maintenance procedures; and improvement of the control of water quality on the water reuse from drainage ditches. The technological innovation is an element of the modernization of irrigation districts that justifies the development of multiple efforts and synergies among stakeholders, namely farmers, water users association, and researchers.

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Chulkov

Abelev

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International Scientific Conference Energy Management of Municipal Transportation Facilities and Transport EMMFT 2017

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Image Recognition for Floating Waste Monitoring in a Traditional Surface Irrigation System

Codes-Alcaraz,

Puerto,

Rocamora

2024

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In the traditional surface irrigation system of Vega Baja del Segura (Spain), large amounts of floating waste accumulate at certain points of the river, irrigation channels and drainage ditches, causing malfunctioning of the irrigation network and rising social problems related to the origins of waste. This work proposes a standardized and quick methodology to characterize the floating waste to detect changes in its amount and components. A dataset was created with 477 images of floating plastic items in different environments and was used for training an algorithm based on YOLOv5s. The mean Average Precision of the trained algorithm was 96.9%, and the detection speed was 81.7 ms. Overhead photographs were taken with an unmanned aerial vehicle at strategic points of the river and channels, and its automatic count of floating objects was compared with their manual count. Both methods showed good agreement, confirming that water bottles were the most abundant (95%) type of floating waste. The automatic count reduced the required time and eliminated human bias in image analysis of the floating waste. This procedure can be used to test the reach of corrective measures implemented by local authorities to prevent floating waste in the river.

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Integration of irrigation district personnel with canal automation projects

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Developing Irrigation Management at District Scale Based on Water Monitoring: Study on Lis Valley, Portugal

Developing Irrigation Management at District Scale Based on Water Monitoring: Study on Lis Valley, Portugal

Information Support for the Operational Management of the Construction Organization

Image Recognition for Floating Waste Monitoring in a Traditional Surface Irrigation System

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