Researchers at the University of Tehran Irrigation and Developme Engineering have achieved importa practical results by conducting a study titled “Modeling the Cost of Popular Irrigation Systems”, which has played a key role in optimizing the processes of planning and manageme of water and soil projects.
Khaled Ahmad al -Ali, a faculty member at the University of Tehran, said: “With the iensification of the water crisis in Iran and the world, the change of irrigation systems from surface methods to pressure irrigation systems is one of the most practical and main solutions to optimizing water resources and increasing water productivity.” This solution can play a key role in the sustainability of water resources by adopting an iegrated water resource manageme approach. Since the implemeation of pressure irrigation projects to protect water and soil resources and increase agricultural production in upstream documes and the seveh developme plan is emphasized; Optimal allocation of credits and pre -awareness of the cost of irrigation systems is importa.
He added: “Currely, the allocation of credits to these projects is based on the area of the design and regardless of environmeal factors affecting the cost of the system such as water source, soil, product, climate, manageme and so on.” The curre approach is not accurate and causes injustice and waste of resources. Therefore, one of the most importa needs of the Planning and Budget Organization, the Ministry of Agriculture Jihad, the Ministry of Energy, Water Users and Consulting and Coractor Engineers Companies, is the accurate estimation of the cost of these projects before design and implemeation. Given the considerable exte of the underlying irrigation and its developme poteial, ideifying and modeling factors affecting system costs will play a significa role in reforming the planning of credits at national and provincial levels.
A faculty member of the University of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Tehran University in explaining the process of this study said: For this purpose, in the first phase of a comprehensive database including independe variables (affecting cost factors) and affiliated variables (the cost of differe sections of each system) from the sprinkler and topical irrigation projects in differe parts of the coury, in full detail. The depende variable of this study was the cost of irrigation systems, including the cost of the pumping station and the ceral corol system “,” the cost of in -field supplies “,” the cost of installation and implemeation of the pumping system and the pumping station “and” total cost “. In the next phase, using differe features of the feature selection techniques, ideified the most importa and effective features on the cost of differe sections. To do this, the feature was selected with differe WCC, LCA, GA, PSO, ACO, ICA, LA, HTS, FOA, DSOS and CUK.
He added: “Using the most effective variables selected, differe multicolor regression models, backup vector regression, artificial neural networks, gene expression planning, genetic algorithm, decision tree and deep learning were used to estimate the costs of each section and were iroduced based on differe models.
Dr. Ahmad Ali said: “After ideifying the top features and top models, research eers the most importa step; That is, the software was developed. ISce software (IRIRIGATION SYSTEMS COST ESTIMATOR) is capable of estimating the cost of differe parts of the system by receiving zodial variables in the pre -designing step for two rainy and topical irrigation systems. The conclusion and evaluation of the software indicated the ability to develop and generalize its results to the iernational level. With a number of zodial features, ISCE software can help policymakers, managers, researchers, studes, consultas, coractors and other concerned people in the water field as a scieific and technical tool.
It should be noted that the design and developme of this software has been completed in the form of a doctoral dissertation with Masoud Pour Gholam Amiji under the guidance of Abdul Majid Liqat and Khaled Ahmadali. The results of the research team have been published in several prestigious domestic and iernational scieific articles. The article “A novel Early Stage Drip IRIRIGATION COSTM COST ESTIMATION MODEL BASED on Manageme and Environmeal Variables” has been published in the journal Nature Scieific Reports.
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