Soil Monitoring & Data Management for Efficient Irrigation Water Use

In the era of digitalization, the use of technology must be normalized to get the best from agriculture. Nowadays, numerous and crucial parameters of vital agronomic importance can be measured from time to time in order to know the physiological and nutritional status of the plantation. Furthermore, the use of high value technological devices and innovative technologies to monitoring plant and soil evolution along the whole growing period is booming in the agricultural sector. In addition, the smart phone has reached all corners, so farmers can use technology easily, and consequently the sector will obtain the following benefits:

– Improve yields.

– Diminish agricultural inputs

– Reduce direct and indirect costs

– Efficient use of resources

The increasingly scare of natural resources, together with the forecasted population growth over the next decades, creates the need of produce nourishment in a more efficient and sustainable way to face an increased global demand for food. Water scarcity is one of the most noticeable global climate change consequence as the result of a temperature rising and precipitation decrease. Thus, the combination of the processes described above generates an indispensable need for improve agricultural water management regarding irrigation by the implementation of IoT architectures in agricultural systems.

In this intermediate course you will learn:

– Design of the architecture for the digitalization of the efficient use of irrigation water.

– Representation of the flow of information from the field to the digital tool/App used for its interpretation.

– Hardware/software used.

– Interpretation of the data obtained and irrigation scheduling (prescriptions).

This module is for anyone interested in farming and enthusiastic about climate change and natural resource optimization. To successfully finish this course you do not need any prerequisite knowledge, but a basic expertise in digitalization will be useful.