Enhancing Mediterranean Agriculture: Towards a Sensor Based Decision Support Tool for Efficient Irrigation Management in Smallholder Orchards

The Mediterranean agriculture is currently facing various challenges resulting from population growth, need for nature conservation, efficient usage of resource and necessary resilience regarding climate change. The fact that smallholders play an important role in the agricultural community raises t...

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Main Authors: Thomas, Felix, Martínez-Gimeno, María A., Consoli, Simona, Pérez-Pérez, Juan G., Ramírez-Cuesta, Juan M., Werban, Ulrike, Bonet, Luis, Vanella, Daniela
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author Thomas, Felix
Martínez-Gimeno, María A.
Consoli, Simona
Pérez-Pérez, Juan G.
Ramírez-Cuesta, Juan M.
Werban, Ulrike
Bonet, Luis
Vanella, Daniela
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Consoli, Simona
Martínez-Gimeno, María A.
Pérez-Pérez, Juan G.
Ramírez-Cuesta, Juan M.
Thomas, Felix
Vanella, Daniela
Werban, Ulrike
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Vanella, Daniela
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description The Mediterranean agriculture is currently facing various challenges resulting from population growth, need for nature conservation, efficient usage of resource and necessary resilience regarding climate change. The fact that smallholders play an important role in the agricultural community raises the question how they could adopt new efficient irrigations strategies and technologies. We present the concept of a decision support tool for irrigation management that aims to overcome obstacles in adapting new technologies for smallholders and provides irrigation recommendations for orange and olive orchards. The derived irrigation recommendations are either based on the FAO-56 approach, or on a soil water balance model relying on soil moisture data. The second is based on soil moisture sensors and here, we are addressing two crucial factors: (i) the assurance of good data quality, and (ii) the sitespecific threshold identification for soil moisture measurements, showing possible methods and occurring challenges.
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spelling ReDivia88542025-04-25T14:50:49Z Enhancing Mediterranean Agriculture: Towards a Sensor Based Decision Support Tool for Efficient Irrigation Management in Smallholder Orchards Thomas, Felix Martínez-Gimeno, María A. Consoli, Simona Pérez-Pérez, Juan G. Ramírez-Cuesta, Juan M. Werban, Ulrike Bonet, Luis Vanella, Daniela Irrigation management Sensor data P10 Water resources and management F06 Irrigation Quality controls The Mediterranean agriculture is currently facing various challenges resulting from population growth, need for nature conservation, efficient usage of resource and necessary resilience regarding climate change. The fact that smallholders play an important role in the agricultural community raises the question how they could adopt new efficient irrigations strategies and technologies. We present the concept of a decision support tool for irrigation management that aims to overcome obstacles in adapting new technologies for smallholders and provides irrigation recommendations for orange and olive orchards. The derived irrigation recommendations are either based on the FAO-56 approach, or on a soil water balance model relying on soil moisture data. The second is based on soil moisture sensors and here, we are addressing two crucial factors: (i) the assurance of good data quality, and (ii) the sitespecific threshold identification for soil moisture measurements, showing possible methods and occurring challenges. 2024-04-30T10:07:09Z 2024-04-30T10:07:09Z 2023 conferenceObject Thomas, F., Pérez-Pérez, J. G., Bonet, L., Martínez-Gimeno, A., Ramírez-Cuesta, J. M., Vanella, D. ... & Werban, U. (2023). Enhancing Mediterranean Agriculture: Towards a Sensor Based Decision Support Tool for Efficient Irrigation Management in Smallholder Orchards. IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry (MetroAgriFor), pp. 160-164. 979-8-3503-1272-0/23 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/8854 10.1109/MetroAgriFor58484.2023.10424053 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10424053 en 2023-11 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry (MetroAgriFor) Pisa, Italy The project was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research under the funding reference 01DH21013A, the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation under the funding reference PCI2021-121940 (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), and by the Italian Ministry of University (PCI2021-121940) within the framework of the project PRIMA 2020 titled “Handy tools for sustainable irrigation management in Mediterranean crops – HANDYWATER”. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Programa Estatal de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad/PCI2021-121940/ES/HANDY TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABLE IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT IN MEDITERRANEAN CROPS/HANDYWATER Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ openAccess IEEE electronico
spellingShingle Irrigation management
Sensor data
P10 Water resources and management
F06 Irrigation
Quality controls
Thomas, Felix
Martínez-Gimeno, María A.
Consoli, Simona
Pérez-Pérez, Juan G.
Ramírez-Cuesta, Juan M.
Werban, Ulrike
Bonet, Luis
Vanella, Daniela
Enhancing Mediterranean Agriculture: Towards a Sensor Based Decision Support Tool for Efficient Irrigation Management in Smallholder Orchards
title Enhancing Mediterranean Agriculture: Towards a Sensor Based Decision Support Tool for Efficient Irrigation Management in Smallholder Orchards
title_full Enhancing Mediterranean Agriculture: Towards a Sensor Based Decision Support Tool for Efficient Irrigation Management in Smallholder Orchards
title_fullStr Enhancing Mediterranean Agriculture: Towards a Sensor Based Decision Support Tool for Efficient Irrigation Management in Smallholder Orchards
title_full_unstemmed Enhancing Mediterranean Agriculture: Towards a Sensor Based Decision Support Tool for Efficient Irrigation Management in Smallholder Orchards
title_short Enhancing Mediterranean Agriculture: Towards a Sensor Based Decision Support Tool for Efficient Irrigation Management in Smallholder Orchards
title_sort enhancing mediterranean agriculture towards a sensor based decision support tool for efficient irrigation management in smallholder orchards
topic Irrigation management
Sensor data
P10 Water resources and management
F06 Irrigation
Quality controls
url https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/8854
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10424053
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