1st Edition
Agri-Tech Approaches for Nutrients and Irrigation Water Management
This book includes concepts, methodologies, and techniques used in soil nutrients and irrigation water management with regional and global prospects. This book accommodates up-to-date approaches to agricultural technologies along with future directions and compiles a wide range of articles ranging from soil moisture flow, nutrient dynamics, crop water estimation techniques, approaches to improve crop water productivity and soil health, crop simulation modeling, and remote sensing/GIS applications. The book also includes chapters on climate-resilient agriculture, advances in big data and machine-learning techniques, IoT, plasma technology, seed priming, and precision farming techniques and their environmental/economic impacts.
Features:
• Discusses applications sustainable technologies for soil nutrients and irrigation water management at multi-scale.
• Covers application of remote sensing/GIS, big data and machine learning, IoT, plasma technology, seed priming, and precision farming techniques for nutrients and water management.
• Reviews concepts, methodologies, and techniques being used in soil nutrients and irrigation water management.
• Provides up-to-date information as well as future directions in the field of nutrients and agricultural water management.
This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in agriculture, water resources, environment, and irrigation engineering.
1. AI for Sustainable Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change
Poulomi Chakravarty, Sai Satish Gattupalli, Kashyapi Chakravarty, Gulab Chand, and Urjani Chakravarty
2. Development of a Modeling Approach for Agriculture Crop Type Classification Aiming at Large-Scale Precision Agriculture by Synergistic Utilization of Fused Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Datasets with UAV Datasets
Akshay Pandey, Shubham Awasthi, and Kamal Jain
3. IoT and Smart Sensor Applications in Nutrient and Irrigation Water Management
Ranjan Kumar, Anil Kumar, and Sushil Kumar Himanshu
4. Assessing Nutrient Variability Across Irrigation Management Zones Using Unsupervised Learning and Mixed Models
Hemendra Kumar, Brenda V. Ortiz, Puneet Srivastava, and Jasmeet Lamba
5. Comparative Study on Estimation of Sediment Yield Index Using GIS and Remote Sensing for Soil Erosion Prediction
Bareerah Khalid, Pema Wangmo, Prakash Subedi, and Sakron Vilavan
6. Soil Moisture Flows Modeling for Micro-Irrigation and Nutrient Load Management
Mohammad Abdul Kader and Md. Shariot-Ullah
7. Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques in the Monitoring of Ecosystem Services
Deeksha Nayak, Anoop Kumar Shukla, and Nandineni Rama Devi
8. Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms in Soil Water Content Prediction at Multiple Depths
Shubham Jain, Sayantan Samanta, and Sushil Kumar Himanshu
9. Artificial Intelligence Application in Database Management for SCADA Systems
Ronald Singh and Ankit Gupta
10. Entropy-Weighted-Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (E-MCDM) Approach for Erosion Area Prioritization: Case Study of a Himalayan River Basin
Brijesh Kumar, Dipankar Roy, Sanoj Kumar, and Ashok Kumar
11. Role of Urea Super Granule (USG) Applicator in Efficient Management of Nitrogen Fertilizer: Case Study of Rice Farming in Bangladesh
Moniruzzaman and Md. Sadique Rahman
12. AI as Improved Agri-Tech Approach for Better Nutrients and Proper Irrigation Water Management: A Comparative Study
Lodsna Borkotoky and Hemanta Hazarika
13. Plasma Technology: An Emerging Tool for Sustainable Agriculture
Bhavna Nigam, Mangesh M. Vedpathak, and Indra Jeet Chaudhary
14. Application of Metaheuristic Optimizations for Unconfined Aquifer Parameter Estimation to Improve Irrigation Water Management
Sharad Patel and Uttam Puri Goswami
15. Application of Remote Sensing, GIS, and AI Techniques in the Agricultural Sector
Mridu Kulwant and Divya Patel
16. Flood Modeling Using the AHP Method in a GIS Environment of the Iril River Catchment, Manipur, India
Sandhip Khundrakpam and Thiyam Tamphasana Devi
17. Agricultural Drought Modelling Through Drought Indices in the Thoubal District, Manipur, India
Denish Okram and Thiyam Tamphasana Devi
18. Seed Priming: Potential Nutrient Management Tool for Improving Crop Productivity Under Abiotic Stress
Debesh Das, Hayat Ullah, Sushil Kumar Himanshu, and Avishek Datta
19. Protected Cultivation: Microclimate-Based Agriculture Under Greenhouse
Vikas Kumar Singh, K. N. Tiwari, Shivam Gupta, and Vijay Kumar Singh
20. Estimation of Groundwater Fluctuation and NDVI Using Geospatial Techniques for Chandigarh City, India
Sunny Kumar, Sushindra Kumar Gupta, and Kanwarpreet Singh
21. Holistic Approach for Prediction of Total Nitrogen Based on Machine-Learning Techniques
Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo, Sushindra Kumar Gupta, Mani Bhushan, and Bhabani Shankar Dash
22. Resource Conservation Technologies for Sustainable Management of Soil, Water and Energy in Modern Agriculture
Anshu Gangwar, Arvind Kumar Singh, Tarun Kumar, Bhaskar Pratap Singh, Ashish Rai, and Jitendra Rajput
Biography
Shivam Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Mahamaya College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Acharya Narendra Dev University of Agriculture and Technology, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.
Sushil Kumar Himanshu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food, Agriculture and Bio-resources, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Pathum Thani, Thailand.
Pankaj Kumar Gupta is a Ramanujan fellow, at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
