Irrigation management in the imperial valley

摘要

I wrote a two-part article last year to describe the practical irrigation management system designed and manufactured by Automata. Part One (California Grower, April 2001) described the components of the Automata system: sensors, field stations, telemetry and software. Part Two (California Grower, May 2001) described how the system works; using a weather station as the first example, then moved on to how valves, pumps, and a well can be controlled. This system is much more than a weather station