Ree Idro-S-Ip

The Lab intends to experiment the innovative procedures of precision agriculture, particularly: i) proximal survey to investigate the soil variability, ii) creation of maps of soil properties, iii) creation of prescription maps for precision irrigation.

The student acquires the know-how (i.e. knowledge and practical and operational and skills) relative to: i) the proximal surveys to describe the within-field spatial variability of soils, and the soil sampling; ii) the analytical measurements in laboratory for the physical-hydrological characterization of soils; iii) the use of GIS and dedicated softwares for data analysis and creation of maps of homogeneous management zones and of soil properties, and finally of irrigation prescription maps. Through simple modeling tools, the student will be able to simulate the irrigation management according to the prescription map (i.e. Variable Rate Irrigation), to assess the effects of VRI on the water consumption.