Research Thesis Topic
Self-learning Technology for Irrigation and Fertiliser Management
Water savings in the Australia's irrigated agricultural industries can be achieved through irrigation control systems that automatically and optimally adapt to the crop water requirements from real-time sensor data. A common approach for irrigation is from crop stress and soil-water status measurements. Model-based control strategies enable irrigation and crop optimisation using a calibrated crop production model to predict which irrigation application and timing maximises productivity. This project will investigate control strategies and/or crop production models for optimisation of irrigation application. The model used may be industry developed black-box models; alternatively, deep learning may be used for training and predicting crop dynamics based on infield data.
- Institute for Agriculture and the Environment
- National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture
- School of Agricultural, Computational and Environmental Sciences
- School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
- Agriculture, Land and Farm Management
- Crop and Pasture Production
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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