Research internship with instrumentation and sensors applied to irrigation scheduling

• Grant number: 12/09007-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2012
• End date: October 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy
• Principal Investigator: João Carlos Cury Saad
• Grantee: João Victor Ribeiro da Silva de Souza
• Supervisor: Juan M. Enciso
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Texas A&M University, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/21506-4 - Criteria evaluation for bean irrigation scheduling in clay soil, BP.IC

Abstract

It is essential that the irrigated agriculture develops its activities in a sustainable manner, based on the rational use of soil and water. It is important to have a criterion for irrigation scheduling, based on instrumentation and sensors, allowing to define the appropriate irrigation moment and the crop water requirement. Thus the improvement of knowledge about installation, management and interpretation of data obtained from sensors and instruments to monitor soil moisture will be very useful for the student, which research topic is just irrigation scheduling. (AU)