Precision Irrigation Management and Soil Moisture Optimization in Agroecosystems
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 37
Special Issue Editors
Interests: precision irrigation and nutrients management; crop simulation modeling; deep percolation and groundwater recharge estimation; soil-plant nutrients dynamics
Interests: agricultural irrigation and IoT (Internet of Things)
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Dear Colleagues,
In face of the the increasing water scarcity, climate vriability and the demand of higher agricultural productivity, prescision irrigation and soil moisture optimization is crucial for sustainable agricultural production. For harvesting sustainable crop yield, irrigtaion needs to be managed and optimized with greater effeciency based on instant and precise evapotranspiration, soil moisture status and crop water status. Exploring the the cutting-edge advances in precision management technologies, smart soil moisture sensing sysytems and precisie sensors to assess the plants internal water status with integrated irrigation management strategies which supports a climate resilient and sustainable agroecosystems.
The growing research progress in sensors-based irrigation sysytem, remotes sensing, IoT enabled platforms and decision support systems and Smartphone apps have revalotionized the approaches for irrigation management. However, challenges still persistis in adopting the technologies due to diverese soil types, cropping systems, irrigation water availability and climatic conditions. Precision irrigation (right amount of water in the right area at right time) serve as best strategy to conserve water, enhance water use effeciency, improves crop water productivity ans sustianable crop yield in diverse agroecosystems.
We invites global researchers, agronomists, irrigation specialists, soil scientists, hydrlogists and technology developers to submit novel reserch articles, reviewes, meta-analysis and case-studies that covers the efficient use of irrigation water through innovative irrigation practices with modern sensing technologies with integration of Artificial Intilligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) techniques, Internet of Things (IoT) and decision support tools. This issue covers wide range of topics , including but not limited to:
- Precision irrigation strategies for sustainable crop production
- Sensors technologies for precision irrigation schedulling
- Soil moisture sensor based, ET based and plant based irrigation schedulling
- Site specific and variable rate irrigation mangement
- Deficit and regulated defict irrigation management
- Irrigation system design, evaluation and performance
- IoT, AI and remote senseng integration for irrigation schedulling
- Soil-water-plant modelling and simulations
Looking forward to your valauble contribuitions to enhance knowledge and practice for sustainable water use in diverse agroecosystems.
Dr. Nawab Ali
Dr. Younsuk Dong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- precision irrigation
- water use effeciency
- irrigation effeciency
- sensing technologies
- smart irrigation
- variable rate irrigation
- irrigation schedulling
- deficit irrigation
- evapotranspiration
- soil-plant-water relation
- IoT in irrigation
- decision tools
- simulation modelling
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