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Information systems are now widely used to support irrigation management in many Countries Interactive information systems facilitate the operation and management of irrigation systems and offer personalized forecasting to farmers, who are advised about the amount and timing of water supply to the different crops grown in their farms. This paper reports about the current adaptation and mitigation tools in agricultural use of water adopted in Emilia Romagna, focusing on the use of information systems and the research applications in improving irrigation advices. Irrinet irrigation advisories is under revision, since research is involved to improve the degree of accuracy in estimation of actual evapotranspiration (ETc). Eddy covariance technique is used to measure Etc over a high water-demanding crop (kiwifruit orchard), allowing to calculated proper Kc values, to be used to improve irrigation advice to farmers.
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Drs. Paolo Mannini, Stefano Anconelli, Roberto Genovesi from CER Emilia Romagna are the persons who created and are supporting future development of Irrinet system. Thanks are due to Drs. Osvaldo Facini, Marianna Nardino, Teodoro Georgiadis of CNR- IBIMET for the collaboration in eddy covariance measurements, and to Dr. Raymond Motha, USDA, for the friendship and the suggestions.
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Rossi, F. (2011). Information Systems as a Tool in Operational Agrometeorology: Applications to Irrigation Water Management in Emilia Romagna-Italy. In: Attri, S., Rathore, L., Sivakumar, M., Dash, S. (eds) Challenges and Opportunities in Agrometeorology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19360-6_23
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