The FC Algorithm to Estimate the Manning’s Roughness Coefficients of Irrigation Canals

Freshwater scarcity has driven the integration of technological advancements and automation systems in agriculture order to attempt improve water-use efficiency. For irrigation canals, efficiency is, great measure, limited by performance management responsible for controlling flow delivering water farmers. Recent studies show a significant sensitivity results obtained from canal control algorithms with respect Manning’s roughness coefficient value, thus, highlighting importance its correct estimation ensure an accurate efficient delivery service. This is reason why friction algorithm was developed, monitor real behaviour any calculating constantly. The conceived as powerful offline tool that integrated diagram canal, concretely optimization algorithm, which can reconfigure gates according current crop demand values. been applied several canals different scenarios, obtaining average Manning deviation among 2 × 10−4 4.5 10−4.