Crop load and tree water use
Spectral Crop Coefficient Approach for Estimating Daily Crop Water Use
... of water used by a crop can be measured using lysimeters or eddy covariance systems, it is more common to estimate this quantity based on weather data and crop-related fac- ...standard crop ...
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Roots, soil water and crop yield: tree crop interactions in a semi-arid agroforestry system in Kenya
... shading of the crop plants. Neutron probe access tubes were installed in each plot (including controls) in three of the four replicate blocks. At the beginning of each wet season, 1 to 2m deep trenches (depending ...
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Determination of Evapotranspiration and Water Use Efficiency in Crop Production
... of water or in the waste of water by irrigating before it is ...the water content of the ...from crop data, meteorological data, and predicted weather ...
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Optimal Crop Plans for Sustainable Water Use in Punjab
... groundwater use in the Punjab ...paddy crop has been further classified into Paddy 1 (transplanted before 10 th June); Paddy 2 (transplanted during 11 th June to 20 th June) and Paddy 3 (transplanted after ...
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More Crop per Drop: Benchmarking On-Farm Irrigation Water Use for Crop Production.
... conserve water and soil resource quality and quantity, a process which involves collecting pertinent data from crop producers within the ...including crop type, sowing date, irrigation system, ...
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Increasing crop productivity and water use efficiency in rainfed agriculture
... facing water crisis due to excessive groundwater withdrawal and climate change with little scope for expansion of large-scale irrigation ...available water resources need to be used more efficiently not ...
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Crop performance, nitrogen and water use in flooded and aerobic rice
... losses, water savings Abstract Irrigated ‘aerobic rice’ is a new system being developed for lowland areas with water shortage and for favorable upland areas with access to supplementary ...into crop ...
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Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Crop Water Use to Improve Irrigation Water Management
... Various methods have been developed to estimate ET directly or indirectly such as weighing lysimeters, pan evaporation, soil water balance, atmometer, Bowen Ratio Energy Balance System (BREBS), Eddy covariance ...
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Impacts of Crop Residue and Cover Crops on Soil Hydrological Properties, Soil Water Storage and Water Use Efficiency of Soybean Crop
... soybean crop system increased mean seasonal soil water storage by 55 and 59 mm in year 2006 and 2007 respectively compared with no mulch added (Obalum et ...soil water storage (Basche et ...reduce ...
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Calibration of a crop model to irrigated water use using a genetic algorithm
... ten crop model parameters including both hydro- logical and physiological ...irrigation water use to within 13% with an estimated predictive accuracy of 19% (complete corn data) given sufficient ...
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Physically based retrieval of crop characteristics for improved water use estimates
... more recently by Timmermans et al. (2007) revealed that TSEB, as well as other existing models, shows a considerable sensitivity to small variations of fractional vegetation cover (fCover) and/or leaf area index (LAI) on ...
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New crop coefficients estimate water use of vegetables, row crops
... The crop coefficient was calculated at different per- centages of ground cover using a direct ratio between the ET of the crop and thaiof a reference grass, which was calculated usi[r] ...
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The Influence of Drip Fertigation on Water Use Efficiency in Tomato Crop Production
... Introduction Th e geographic location and the related climatic conditions in the Republic of Macedonia are suitable for quality agricul- tural production; however the major limiting factors for higher yields and more ...
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Micrometeorological Methods as Tools for Increasing Crop Production and Water-Use Efficiency
... The science of micrometeorology, which deals with atmospheric pro- cesses near the earth's surface, is providing increased knowledge of the mechanisms controlling our environment. Microm[r] ...
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The use of treated brewery effluent as a water and nutrient source in crop irrigation
... 45 water content to soil water ...distilled water to 30% moisture content, by weight, and placed in a 30 ml air tight glass ...the water to become evenly distributed throughout the ...the ...
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Disposition of precipitation: Supply and Demand for Water Use by New Tree Plantations
... of water (Galiana and Green, 2010, ...are water-limited and water used in evapo- transpiration for tree growth is no longer available for downstream ...Reduced water flows, due to ...
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Load Balancing with Tree Parity Machine
... proposed Tree Parity Machine has been built keeping in mind simplicity and ease of ...of load balancing is accomplished through training of TPM on various and illustrative examples of balanced and ...
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Use of infrared thermography to detect water deficit response in an irrigated cotton crop
... of crop water deficit stress with potential for commercial ...Thus water availability will be a major limitation to plant growth in the future (Houghton et ...cotton crop occupies some 500,000 ...
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Soil water improvements with the long-term use of a winter rye cover crop
... utive use of a winter rye cover crop contributed to improved soil water content and soil water storage in a maize-soybean cropping ...soil water use from a transpiring cover ...
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