IRAN-IRPID
WORKSHOP
A 5
day educational workshop relevant the Application of RS & GIS on irrigation
for Iraqi engineers was held in Tehran from 28 OCT till 1 Nov. by collaboration
of IRAN-IRPID.
9 engineers from various departments of Ministry of Water Resources and
different provinces of Iraq participated in the workshop.
The program included:
·
An introduction to RS &
GIS and their application on irrigation,
·
Introducing ILWIS
software,
·
Application of GIS for:
Physiographic studies,
land use classification and
mapping,
Biomass and LAI estimation,
Soil moisture estimation
and mapping.
Several examples of real
cases were practiced in the workshop. The workshop concluded with a field visit
of Ghazvin irrigation network, and Magsal agricultural complex where field
measurement of several parameters for calibration of images were carried out. Participants
express their full satisfaction with high quality of the workshop, and wish to
have more workshops on other subjects relevant to irrigation.