Advances in Sprinkler Irrigation Systems and Water Saving Volume II
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 February 2024) | Viewed by 2123
Special Issue Editors
Interests: irrigation performance evaluation; irrigation systems management; variable rate irrigation; smart irrigation; fertilization; new technology and equipment
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Interests: sprinkler irrigation systems and water; water-saving managment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water shortage has become one of the main factors restricting food security and sustainable development around the world. Agriculture is the largest water user, and its low effective utilization coefficient of agricultural irrigation water makes water-saving irrigation of great significance. As one of the highest-efficiency water-saving irrigation techniques, sprinkler irrigation has been widely promoted all over the world due to its advantages of strong adaptability and yield increase, in addition to saving labor efforts. Although there are many advantages to sprinkler irrigation, its potential shortcomings cannot be ignored. These include high investment costs, sensitivity to environmental factors, and excessive energy consumption. Today, new technical methods such as smart irrigation, variable rate irrigation, and solar-powered irrigation have emerged in a bid to resolve these problems. In the future, sprinkler irrigation technology will continue to play a key role in water saving and yield increase, environmental protection, and sustainable development.
The purpose of this Special Issue of Water is to collect the latest research covering advances in sprinkler irrigation systems and water saving, specifically including, but not limited to, the following aspects:
- Evaluation of sprinkler irrigation performance;
- Variable rate irrigation;
- Smart irrigation;
- Low-pressure sprinkler irrigation;
- Fertilization;
- Parameter optimization;
- New technology and equipment.
Prof. Dr. Haijun Yan
Prof. Dr. Xingye Zhu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sprinkler irrigation
- micro-sprinkler irrigation
- hydraulic performance
- variable rate irrigation
- smart irrigation
- low-pressure sprinkler
- new technology and equipment
- fertigation
- water saving
- reclaimed water use
- yield increase
- water-use efficiency
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