SiAR app

Agro-climatic information for irrigation. water needs of crops

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, through the General Department of Irrigation and Water Economy, available to the citizen Siar app, an application that allows managing an irrigation program by calculating water requirements and dose irrigation of crops 104, taking as reference evapotranspiration calculated through the data supplied by the CRMS station network that has more than 450 stations in 12 regions.

From the application you can see:

- Needs daily and weekly irrigation for cultivation

- water status of their parcel

- Meteorological data

Siar app lets you manage personalized cultivation, selecting:

- Location of the plot

- Seedtime

- Irrigation system

- Type of soil

- Setting planting and canopy diameter for tree crops

- Units of measurement results

- Riegos provided

Siar app assigns the nearest station Siar its plot and uses the reference evapotranspiration (by FAO-56), calculated from data from that station to provide the water needs of the crop. This information is displayed both numerically and graphically.

The ability to configure the units of volume, surface and flow makes Siars app suits both small and large plots irrigated areas.

For quick and simple state of your plot display, three types of graphs showing their evolution since the crop was created offered:

- State land

- water Contributions

- Hydric balance

Irrigation provided by the user may be introduced into the application time, volume or to cover the water needs in the first two cases you need to configure your irrigation system.

In addition to irrigation needs, Siar app lets you view weather data in real time Siar station assigned to your plot and query data from previous days.

Among other features of Siar app, which facilitate irrigation scheduling, are the weather forecast for the next 5 days of the municipality where your parcel as well as sending notifications or warnings when your culture change state or when the forecast weather meets certain conditions specified by the user.

The widget allows Siars app consult a simple, visual and summarized the state of crops created form.

Siar App features a manual, which is available from the application itself, which explains in detail the operation thereof.

Siar app aims to become a useful tool in the service of the farmer to help optimize the use of water in irrigation, promoting economic, social and environmental sustainability.

For more information about Agro-climatic Information System for Irrigation see www.siar.es