WaterSmart-GIS: A Web Application of a Data Assimilation Model to Support Irrigation Research and Decision Making
Journal: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Year: 2022

Irrigation is the primary consumer of freshwater by humans and accounts for over 70% of all annual water use. However, due to the shortage of open critical information in agriculture such as soil, precipitation, and crop status, farmers heavily rely on empirical knowledge to schedule irrigation and tend to excessive irrigation to ensure crop yields. This paper presents WaterSmart-GIS, a web-based geographic information system (GIS), to collect and disseminate near-real-time information critical