ISHS Acta Horticulturae 228: IV International Symposium on Water Supply and Irrigation in the Open and under Protected Cultivation
AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR IRRIGATION TRIAL MANAGEMENT |
| Author: | R. Testolin |
| Abstract:
Basic philosophy underlaying hardware and software for a data logger-computer devoted to irrigation trial management is described. Weather data are collected from electronic sensors, then processed by a desk-top computer and stored into a cassette recorder. From these data variables for hydrologic balance (Effective Rainfall, ET) can be computed and daily hydrologic balance updated. As balance reaches a limit value, the irrigation program is automatically executed for all the plots one by one. Such a system operated quite satisfactorily during two years. | |
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