Water & Nutrient Management:
Soil Moisture-Based Irrigation Systems
Welcome and Outline of Contents
In this video we introduce the IFAS virtual field day on soil moisture-based irrigation. The use of this irrigation system is proposed as a viable method for conserving the water quality and quantity while maintaining agricultural yields or landscape quality. The outline of the virtual field day as well as the main components of an irrigation system are presented here.
Presenters
Dr. Rafael Muñoz-Carpena specializes in surface, vadose, zone and groundwater hydrology; water quality modeling; water conservation in irrigaton system design and operation.
Dr. Michael D. Dukes specializes in irrigation and drainage engineering; water quantity and quality issues; crop consumptive use; Best Management Practices to reduce nonpoint source pollution.
This page was last updated on April 25, 2013.
Videos
- Welcome and Outline of Contents
- Timed Irrigation
- Bypass Timer Irrigation
- On-Demand Irrigation
- Irrigation Components
- Soil Moisture Sensors
- Irrigation Sensor Placement
- Application of the System
- Irrigation Sensor Families
- Neutron Probe
- Time Domain Reflectometry
- Capacitance Probe
- Combined Probe
- Frequency Domain Reflectometry (FDR)
- Amplitude Domain Reflectometry
- Phase Transmission
- Time Domain Transmission
- Tensiometer
- Gypsum Block
- Granular Matrix Sensors (GMS)
- Heat Dissipation
- Soil Psychrometer
