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Using remote sensing and GIS for assessment of irrigation performance in the Al-Hindiyah Barrage, Babil City, Iraq

Problems and concerns over water lack would affect irrigated agriculture. Iraq suffers from shortage water and the principle use of water is for irrigation. Hence, better performance of irrigation saves more water, which can be used for other purposes. The objective of the research is to assess the...

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Main Authors: Jaber, Hussein Sabah, Mansor, Shattri, Pradhan, Biswajeet, Ahmad, Noordin
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Language:English
Published: Medwell Journals 2016
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spelling my.upm.eprints.532142017-10-24T06:13:23Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53214/ Using remote sensing and GIS for assessment of irrigation performance in the Al-Hindiyah Barrage, Babil City, Iraq Jaber, Hussein Sabah Mansor, Shattri Pradhan, Biswajeet Ahmad, Noordin Problems and concerns over water lack would affect irrigated agriculture. Iraq suffers from shortage water and the principle use of water is for irrigation. Hence, better performance of irrigation saves more water, which can be used for other purposes. The objective of the research is to assess the irrigation performance in Al-Hindiyah barrage located in Babil city, in middle of Iraq using GIS and remote sensing. In order to achieve this objective, performance of the irrigation season for 2014 was defined upon five indicators, namely relative water supply, general consumed ratio, relative evapotranspiration, depleted fraction and crop water deficit. Actual and potential parameters of evapotranspiration used in determination of these indicators were estimated depending on the method of Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) by using a series of Landsat OLI satellite images. The range of seasonal averages of these indicators was between (0.138 and 2.704) for overall consumed proportion (0.395-7.129) for relative water supply (0.061-1.136) for depleted fraction (0.407-0.464) for relative evapotranspiration and (200.757-247.474) mm/month for crop water deficit. The result of this study indicated that the performance of the irrigation was poor according to the average of seasonal values of all performance indicators. The performance indicators revealed that the supplied irrigation water was less than needed. Thus, it was determined that nearness to the source might be an advantage to obtain water, and there should be a concurrence between the period when water is provided and the period when it is needed. Medwell Journals 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53214/1/Using%20remote%20sensing%20and%20GIS%20for%20assessment%20of%20irrigation%20performance%20in%20the%20Al-Hindiyah%20Barrage%2C%20Babil%20City%2C%20Iraq.pdf Jaber, Hussein Sabah and Mansor, Shattri and Pradhan, Biswajeet and Ahmad, Noordin (2016) Using remote sensing and GIS for assessment of irrigation performance in the Al-Hindiyah Barrage, Babil City, Iraq. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 11 (3). pp. 462-470. ISSN 1816-949X 10.3923/jeasci.2016.462.470
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description Problems and concerns over water lack would affect irrigated agriculture. Iraq suffers from shortage water and the principle use of water is for irrigation. Hence, better performance of irrigation saves more water, which can be used for other purposes. The objective of the research is to assess the irrigation performance in Al-Hindiyah barrage located in Babil city, in middle of Iraq using GIS and remote sensing. In order to achieve this objective, performance of the irrigation season for 2014 was defined upon five indicators, namely relative water supply, general consumed ratio, relative evapotranspiration, depleted fraction and crop water deficit. Actual and potential parameters of evapotranspiration used in determination of these indicators were estimated depending on the method of Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) by using a series of Landsat OLI satellite images. The range of seasonal averages of these indicators was between (0.138 and 2.704) for overall consumed proportion (0.395-7.129) for relative water supply (0.061-1.136) for depleted fraction (0.407-0.464) for relative evapotranspiration and (200.757-247.474) mm/month for crop water deficit. The result of this study indicated that the performance of the irrigation was poor according to the average of seasonal values of all performance indicators. The performance indicators revealed that the supplied irrigation water was less than needed. Thus, it was determined that nearness to the source might be an advantage to obtain water, and there should be a concurrence between the period when water is provided and the period when it is needed.
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author Jaber, Hussein Sabah
Mansor, Shattri
Pradhan, Biswajeet
Ahmad, Noordin
spellingShingle Jaber, Hussein Sabah
Mansor, Shattri
Pradhan, Biswajeet
Ahmad, Noordin
Using remote sensing and GIS for assessment of irrigation performance in the Al-Hindiyah Barrage, Babil City, Iraq
author_facet Jaber, Hussein Sabah
Mansor, Shattri
Pradhan, Biswajeet
Ahmad, Noordin
author_sort Jaber, Hussein Sabah
title Using remote sensing and GIS for assessment of irrigation performance in the Al-Hindiyah Barrage, Babil City, Iraq
title_short Using remote sensing and GIS for assessment of irrigation performance in the Al-Hindiyah Barrage, Babil City, Iraq
title_full Using remote sensing and GIS for assessment of irrigation performance in the Al-Hindiyah Barrage, Babil City, Iraq
title_fullStr Using remote sensing and GIS for assessment of irrigation performance in the Al-Hindiyah Barrage, Babil City, Iraq
title_full_unstemmed Using remote sensing and GIS for assessment of irrigation performance in the Al-Hindiyah Barrage, Babil City, Iraq
title_sort using remote sensing and gis for assessment of irrigation performance in the al-hindiyah barrage, babil city, iraq
publisher Medwell Journals
publishDate 2016
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