Simplified Irrigation Scheduling on your Phone or Web Browser

摘要

When good irrigation scheduling is practiced everybody wins. However data-based irrigation scheduling is still not commonly practiced because it is often expensive, complicated, and time consuming. To be useful, irrigation scheduling tools must be very simple, intuitive, robust, and not ask growers for information that they don't know. Irrigation Scheduler Mobile is a free online irrigation scheduling tool for doing simplified check-book style irrigation scheduling. It works on any smart phone platform including iPhone, Android, or MS Windows Phone, or Blackberry. There is also a downloadable Android version with an iPhone version in development. However, because it operates as a web page it also works perfectly well on any desktop web browser. It is fully integrated with most of the agricultural weather networks in the west. Daily crop water use (ET) estimates and rainfall data are automatically filled in. It is free, and to date over 2000 fields have been set up on it. It works for turf as well as most agricultural crops. This paper describes this tool and its operation as well as how to adapt it to other areas of the U.S. or world.