1 / 17

IrriSatSMS Satellite and SMS Irrigation Scheduling Service

IrriSatSMS Satellite and SMS Irrigation Scheduling Service. John Hornbuckle, Nick Car & Evan Christen. IrriSatSMS - Satellite and SMS Irrigation Scheduling Service. Aims to overcome the costs and complexities of irrigation scheduling

johnkwilliams
Download Presentation

IrriSatSMS Satellite and SMS Irrigation Scheduling Service

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. IrriSatSMS Satellite and SMS Irrigation Scheduling Service John Hornbuckle, Nick Car & Evan Christen

  2. IrriSatSMS - Satellite and SMS Irrigation Scheduling Service • Aims to overcome the costs and complexities of irrigation scheduling • Capturing the bulk of the ‘market’ and providing them with a tool for assisting these decisions can deliver real water savings • The system provides irrigation scheduling information specific for a farm at an extremely low cost, directly to their mobile phone, taking into account the latest weather conditions and their crop needs ensuring decisions on irrigation are made with the best available information

  3. How does IrriSatSMS schedule ? • Using the FAO 56 approach Reference water use – weather station ETc = ETo x Kc Crop Coefficient – relates your crop to the reference crop Actual water use of crop

  4. Gaining individual crop coefficients • Multi-spectral (Spot,Landsat, Iknonos) satellites cover MIA approx. every 7-14 days • Images of everyone's individual crop • Can this information can be used for gaining the crop coefficient

  5. USDA – Trout, Ayars

  6. Determining Kc from NDVI - grapevines Kc = 2.26 x NDVI – 0.4352

  7. How does the IrriSatSMS schedule ? • Using the FAO 56 approach ETc = ETo x Kc Actual water use of crop .. But still in a format that’s not much use!

  8. Making the scheduling information useful Irrigation Rainfall

  9. Overview of IrriSatSMS Determination of a crop coefficient (Kc) from satellite image Satellite images used to determine plant performance of an irrigators crop Satellite Measurements Representing Individual Paddocks Incorporates management/soil/water/salinity constraints ETo from Weather Station or SILO On Ground ETc = ETo X Kc Potential Evaporation based on Atmospheric Demand Crop water use determined and irrigation requirement Daily irrigation scheduling information delivered to irrigators through SMS

  10. Benchmarking and auditing

  11. Try a Demonstration Now! SMS demo run timesto 0416 905 013 and you’ll receive a demonstration SMS reply for grapevines in Griffith, NSW

  12. Future efforts/issues

  13. Understanding and irrigating for spatial variability – making use of RS data

  14. Rastus – spatial soil, water, plant model

  15. Future efforts/issues • RS for assessing crop/plant stress i.e. LWP from RS – implementing RDI, SDI irrigation strategies for monitoring water stress for improved quality – a simple thermal type approach • Soil moisture – deeper and with greater resolution • Linking RS data with irrigation management models • Large group of irrigators which we have real time water use and soil moisture monitoring (60+) senteks/cprobes • Heavily instrumented field sites EB, SM, EM, ET, T, etc • Very interested in being a part of any future campaign Future Campaigns

  16. Contact Us Phone: 1300 363 400 or +61 3 9545 2176 Email: enquiries@csiro.au Web: www.csiro.au Thank you

More Related