Agriculture is one of the economic sectors that affect climate change contributing to
greenhouse gas emissions directly and indirectly. There is a trend of agricultural …

Continuous move irrigation systems have been modified since the 1990s to support variable
rate irrigation. Most of these systems used PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) …

Agricultural automation is the core technology for computer-aided agricultural production
management and implementation. An integration of equipment, infotronics, and precision …

Variable rate irrigation (VRI) systems are commercially available and can easily be
retrofitted onto moving sprinkler systems. However, there are few reports on the application …

Uniformity of water distribution of a commercial variable rate center pivot irrigation system
was evaluated. This four-span center pivot system was configured with 10 equal area sized …

178 Precision Agriculture Technology for Crop Farming technology (VRT) at universities and
research institutes in the United States and Europe in the late 1980s. By the early 1990s …

Spatial irrigation of agricultural crops using site-specific variable-rate irrigation (VRI) systems
is beginning to have wide-spread acceptance. However, optimizing the management of …

Highlights A computer model (MOPivot) was developed to determine unique management
areas. MOPivot can delineate management zone maps for center pivot (CP) variable rate …

Technologies have been developed for variable rate irrigation (VRI) systems to apply water
based on the spatial and temporal variability of field conditions. To verify the suitability of the …

Subsurface drip distribution is an important on‐site wastewater treatment technique widely
used with various soil types and restricted site conditions. This study evaluated the …