Water marketing effects on crop-water management
This study considers a water marketing system in which farmers can buy a given amount of water, at a fixed price, and sell the amount not used. The system could induce farmers to upgrade their irrigation systems and reduce water application and drainage volume, while paying for drainage water disposal and maintaining profitability.
This paper will discuss our approach to convert these images into application maps (i.e. shape files) without much effort or special knowledge from the pilot/operator, which could then be a new service to a customer. These application maps could then be easily uploaded into the spray system computer to make variable-rate aerial application such as cotton growth regulators, defoliants, and insecticides. The goal of these research projects is to demonstrate that precision agriculture technology has the potential to benefit the industry by saving operators and farmers’ time and money.