Crop irrigation schedule expert system

Abstract

In this paper, a crop irrigation schedule expert system was presented. The main task for the presented system is to utilize irrigation expertise for a crop and calculates the detailed irrigation operations. The irrigation operation determines the exact water requirements and time for the crop according to different environmental parameters and the cultivated crop parameters. Separating these parameters from the expert system knowledge base is required to generalize the presented irrigation system to be applied for any crop. Therefore, the proposed system takes these parameters as input data. Since these parameters are not usually known by the ordinary user, then the proposed model uses predefined services for collecting the needed parameters based on the plantation date, location, and crop type. A case study is applied to demonstrate how the proposed system can be applied for generating Fababean irrigation schedule. The result shows the applicability of the proposed system to be used in generating the irrigation schedule for any crop.