In on-demand irrigation systems, canal operators divert water from rivers to be delivered to the fields after receiving a water order from a farmer. These water orders are the result of a farmer's decision to irrigate. If farmers’ irrigation decisions could be better anticipated, it might be...

Efficient irrigation can help avoid crop water stress, undesirable levels of nutrient leaching, and yield reduction due to water shortage, runoff or over irrigation. Gains in water use efficiency can be achieved when water application is precisely matched to the spatially distributed crop water...

Anticipating, or forecasting near-term irrigation demands is a requirement for improved management of conveyance and delivery systems. The most important component of a forecasting regime for irrigation is a simple, yet reliable, approach for forecasting crop water demands, which in this paper...

This work addresses management of water for irrigation in arid regions where significant delays between the time of order and the time of delivery present major difficulties. Motivated by improvements to water management that will be facilitated by an ability to predict water demand, it employs...