Agricultural production became very importnat due to increase in world population day by day. All over the World, most of the agrcultural products grow in sub-humid, semi-arid and arid environments, which require irrigation water in addition to the precipitation. For conveyance, distribution and field application, high cost irrigation infrastrucres are required and most of the countries try to increase irrigated area by using governmental financial support. By this way, agriculture is the main user of the water resources taken under control. This percentage is nearly 73 in Turkey. Agricultural water use efficiency inclueding conveyance, distribution and field application is main issue World-wide, also in Turkey. Turkish govermental support to improve agricultural water use efficeny is reached to a very important level, but it is still very low, nearly at % 43 level. According to people dealing with irrigation from the technical point of view, improving agricultural water use efficiency could be achived by; modernsation of irrigation systems based on well prepared system projects, operation of irrigation systems by considering soil-plant-atmosphere-water relationships, water availability, climatic factors and socia ecnomic situation and monitoring irrigated agricultural lands by new technological opportunuties for real time site specific management of agricultural water. Accoridng to literatüre, remote sensing techniques including satellite systems and un-manned air vehicle systems, can provide valuable data and information related to agricultural water management issues. From these point of view, this Project were develoed transitionaly for preperation of training materials to fill an important gap in improving agricultural water management. Within the scope of our project, experts with different areas of expertise will come together to create an information-based irrigation systems module, mobile application and distance education platform. Main goals of this Project are preperation of training docements on; • General country surveys about aricultural water managemen, • Planning and operation of irrigation systems, • Principles of remote sensing, • Using satellite and UAV systems for agricultural water management, • Improving agricultural water use efiiciency • Renovation of the curriculum of agricultural vocational high schools
The main aim of the project is to exchange information on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and satellite systems in agricultural water management, to prepare documents and to present the information generated within the scope of the project to the relevant people through a website and mobile application.
The main reason for applying for this project is that the project partner organizations work together to achieve the project goals and objectives and to establish strategic cooperation for future projects. In this context, seven different organizations related to the project topic came together to submit and carry out this project. The different areas of expertise required for the project and the different fields of activity of the institutions were brought together.