Manejo de irrigação via acesso remoto

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: RODRIGUES, Diogo Francisco Borba
• Orientador(a): ALMEIDA, Ceres Duarte Guedes Cabral de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Agrícola
• Departamento: Departamento de Engenharia Agrícola
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Telefone móvel; Software; Aplicativo para celular; Semiárido; Mobile phone; Short Messaging Service; Mobile application; Semiarid
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::ENGENHARIA AGRICOLA
• Link de acesso: http://www.tede2.ufrpe.br:8080/tede2/handle/tede2/5577

Models and software have been developed for irrigation management, however they don’t reach small farmers due to technical and economic limitations. This study aimed to develop tools for irrigation management using mobile phone, a technology already assimilated by society. The first tool called IGmanejo sends SMS to farmers with area’s name, irrigation depth and run time. The second tool is a Java application for mobile phone (mobile IGmanejo), which support irrigation management to farmers who have irrigation evaporimeter tank and rain gauge. This paper intend support a public policy of rational use of water in the semiarid region of Brazil, since it is free to farmer and may solve the current gap in irrigation technical assistance. Training curse to be able software use, climate monitoring equipment and sensitization of farmers to adopt such technology are essential points to success on farm. This software was evaluated according to water saving to growing cabbage crop, under three different seasons. The management simulations were done on a small farm, in Pernambuco state. Irrigation depth send by SMS IGmanejo water saving in 20% compared to reference software CropWat (FAO). For mobile IGmanejo were done two simulations of irrigation, using data from gauge evaporimeter tank (Class A) and using simplified tank, and also compared with those obtained by IGmanejo SMS. The results did not present statistically significant differences, confirming that the farmer may use more economical methods to estimate evapotranspiration (like simplified tank) instead of class A tank, which has high cost. The software showed that it is able to reduce of use of water on agriculture going to remote regions to support irrigation management with simplicity and quality.