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Online Professional Irrigation Scheduling Expert System (OPIRIS) project kick-off meeting
PRESS RELEASE
OpIRIS project kick-off meeting
Online Professional IRrigation Scheduling Expert System
Salon Gaya - Hotel Silken 7 Coronas,
16-17 January 2014
OpIRIS
project is co-funded within KBBE.2013.1.4-07 (Boosting the translation of FP
projects' results into innovative applications in the field of agriculture,
forestry, fisheries and aquaculture) with a total budget of 1,3 M Euros over 24
months, and started officially on
Increasing water scarcity and environmental concerns have urged the search for solutions for better water management in irrigated agriculture. Precision irrigation is one of these solutions. Technologies have developed potential systems, although effective partnerships have to be fostered between private industry and scientific community to shape up some common and complementary solutions. The project proposes the development of an expert system, based on the exploitation of results from three previous projects in order to acquire data from sensors, match it against a data base, produce decisions on water and energy savings.
The innovative solution of OpIRIS resides:
(1) on his historical database built upon real case studies, and mainy based on 3 successful previous FP7 projects: CLOSYS, IRRIQUAL & SIRRIMED,
(2) is shared on the web which guarantees cheaper access to this technology and
(3) helps changing the current culture and behavior and into getting agricultural exploitation into the use of ICTs.
OpIRIS has direct benefits such as: Saving water, especially where annual traditional amount of irrigation water is beyond average crop water requirements, as well as saving energy and manpower required to pump and distribute excess water; while indirect benefits are: 1) Reducing leaching of fertilizers out of the plant root zone, 2) Improving water and fertilizers availability for the plant, 3) Reducing deep water percolation and contamination to underground aquifer by agricultural chemicals, 4) Providing information about the local soil hydrodynamic characteristics, the advance of wetting front during irrigation events and the depth and daily pattern of root water uptake, 5) Providing information on the hydraulic performance of the irrigation system in use, 6) Providing information on the current crop development and growing stages, 7) Creating a closer relationship between the farmer and his production system, it offers him a better real understanding of water and nutrient balance within water-soil-plant system, and 8) Creating consistency in yields between years.
The meeting was a good occasion to discuss the timelines of the whole project WPs and the way the partners will work together to produce the deliverables of the project during the first six months and the whole duration of the project, and how it will be coordinated. A project website will be launched soon.
For additional information on this project, please contact the project technical coordinator.
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Keywords: changing behavior, energy save, water
management, irrigation agriculture, sensors, ICT, expert system, exploitation
of results
Oussama Mounzer (PhD)
Project Technical Coordinator
Dept de Riego, CEBAS-CSIC
Campus Universitario de Espinardo
30100 espinardo, Apartado 164
Murcia, Spain
Phone: +34 968 396270
Email: omounzer@cebas.csic.es
Web: www.cebas.csic.es
| Contact information |
Patricia Galisteo// Project coordinator: Oussama Mounzer Irrigation Scientist, PhD Dept de Riego CEBAS-CSIC Campus Universitario de Espinardo 30100 espinardo, Apartado 164
(email: pgalisteo@euro-funding.com ; omounzer@cebas.csic.es; omounzer@gmail.com ; oussamamounzer@yahoo.com ) Phone: +34 968 396270 Mobile: +34 667002212 |
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| Event type | Seminar |
| File link | n/a |
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| Source | CSIC |
| Subject(s) | AGRICULTURE , ANALYSIS AND TESTS , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , WATER DEMAND |
| Geographical coverage | Spain, |
| Address | Murcia |
| Organizer | CSIC, Spain |
| Target audience | Euro |
| Duration | January 16th – 17th starting at 09:00 a.m. |
| Period | [16/01/2014 - 17/01/2014] |
| Status | Confirmed |
| Working language(s) | ENGLISH |
