A decision support system for managing irrigation in agriculture

In this paper, an automatic Smart Irrigation Decision Support System, SIDSS, is proposed to manage irrigation in agriculture. Our system estimates the weekly irrigations needs of a plantation, on the basis of both soil measurements and climatic variables gathered by several autonomous nodes deployed...

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Authors: Navarro Hellín, Honorio, Martínez del Rincón, Jesús, Domingo Miguel, Rafael, Soto Vallés, Fulgencio, Torres Sánchez, Roque
Format: article
Status:Versión aceptada para publicación
Publication Date:2016
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena(UPCT)
Repository:Repositorio Digital UPCT
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.upct.es:10317/5809
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10317/5809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2016.04.003
Access Level:Embargoed access
Keyword:Decision support system
Water optimisation
Machine learning
Irrigation
Producción Vegetal
5102.01 Agricultura
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Summary:In this paper, an automatic Smart Irrigation Decision Support System, SIDSS, is proposed to manage irrigation in agriculture. Our system estimates the weekly irrigations needs of a plantation, on the basis of both soil measurements and climatic variables gathered by several autonomous nodes deployed in field. This enables a closed loop control scheme to adapt the decision support system to local perturbations and estimation errors. Two machine learning techniques, PLSR and ANFIS, are proposed as reasoning engine of our SIDSS. Our approach is validated on three commercial plantations of citrus trees located in the South-East of Spain. Performance is tested against decisions taken by a human expert