An Irrigation Homogenity Assessment of a Variable Rate Sprinkler Irrigation
An Irrigation Homogenity Assessment of a Variable Rate Sprinkler Irrigation
PDFAuthors: Andrea Szabó, János Tamás, Attila Nagy
Volume/Issue: Volume 24: Issue s1: Special Issue
Published online: 21 May 2021
Pages: 8-11
Abstract
Nowadays, the development of irrigation is increasingly recognized as a necessary factor in agriculture, primarily because of global warming. Depending on the field conditions, the most commonly used method is sprinkler irrigation. The spray uniformity of sprinklers installed on the field irrigation equipment can be characterized by the Christiansen-uniformity coefficient (CUc%) and the distribution uniformity coefficient (DU%). Our investigations were carried out on the lateral moving irrigation equipment of University of Debrecen, Institutes for Agricultural Research and Educational Farm and Nyírbátor’s company in Hungary in 2019. Variable rate irrigation (VRI) is used in Nyírbátor. In contrast, the VRI has given positive results, making an irrigation equipment with the VRI a safer and more uniform method than a conventional linear irrigation equipment.
Keywords: irrigationChristiansen-uniformitydistribution uniformitycrop
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