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Research Project: Develop Mobile Phone-based Applications for the Larger-scale End-user Applications of the CWSI-Integrated WISE Irrigation Scheduling Tool

Location: Water Management and Systems Research

Project Number: 3012-13210-001-016-A
Project Type: Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Aug 1, 2024
End Date: Jul 31, 2025

Objective:
The objective is to integrate a canopy-temperature-based crop water stress index (CWSI) into the WISE (Water Irrigation Scheduler for Efficient Application) tool, and develop mobile phone-based applications (for the larger-scale end-user applications of the CWSI-integrated WISE irrigation scheduling tool.

Approach:
ARS has developed a Python package to realize two major CWSI computational methods (https://github.com/lhomanh/CWSI-Calculation-with-Python-and-FlaskAPI). We will convert the WISE tool from its Excel-based application into a Python package and integrate the CWSI Python package. Next step is to deliver the integrated CWSI-WISE tool Python packages as web- or mobile-based irrigation scheduling tool to enable efficient irrigation decision-making.