CN111882237A - Irrigation management method based on GIS irrigation area - Google Patents

Irrigation management method based on GIS irrigation area Download PDF

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CN111882237A
CN111882237A CN202010769873.4A CN202010769873A CN111882237A CN 111882237 A CN111882237 A CN 111882237A CN 202010769873 A CN202010769873 A CN 202010769873A CN 111882237 A CN111882237 A CN 111882237A
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Abstract

The invention discloses an irrigation management method based on a GIS irrigation area, which comprises the steps of dividing an irrigation area based on the GIS, connecting the divided areas into binary trees according to a dividing result, and then registering a flow by an irrigation unit to grow the binary trees to form an irrigation area water distribution model; then, distributing emergency and reserve water according to the binary tree water distribution model to form an irrigation water distribution plan; according to the received irrigation application message, summarizing and adjusting the irrigation plan according to a back-root traversal binary tree method to form an irrigation scheduling plan, and sending out an irrigation notification message according to the optimized irrigation scheduling plan; the intelligent field gate lock is adopted to coordinate irrigation work between a dispatcher and an administrator, the irrigation progress is interacted, the irrigation process is recorded, supervised and reported, irrigation management big data is formed, and the work efficiency of irrigation area management is improved.

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Irrigation management method based on GIS irrigation area
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of irrigation management, in particular to a GIS-based irrigation area irrigation management method.
Background
With the development of intelligent agricultural rural areas, more and more irrigation area information construction is engaged, national-level projects such as digital river, digital yellow river, digital Yangtze river and other digital drainage areas are successively built in China, and a single application system integrating decision support application of monitoring, data acquisition, transmission and database construction, such as irrigation area comprehensive management, flood control safety, reservoir management, water resource reasonable configuration, water pollution prevention and control, water conservancy and government affairs, GIS application, gate automation, channel system water distribution optimization and the like, is built in each place. In some irrigation areas introducing yellow river water, along with the popularization of soil moisture sensors, more and more farmers want to apply for water distribution in a targeted manner, along with the increase of the number of applied irrigation, a front-line dispatcher is heavier and heavier in work, the requirement on an irrigation area management information system is higher and higher, and the work efficiency of irrigation area management is reduced.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a GIS-based irrigation area irrigation management method, which improves the work efficiency of irrigation area management.
In order to achieve the aim, the invention provides a GIS-based irrigation area irrigation management method, which comprises the following steps:
dividing irrigation areas based on a GIS, and connecting the divided irrigation areas into binary trees according to division results;
registering the irrigation units according to the irrigation management registration flow according to the irrigation area management requirement;
planning water distribution according to the obtained irrigation application message, and summarizing and adjusting an irrigation scheduling plan according to a back root traversal method;
and sending an irrigation notification message according to the adjusted irrigation scheduling plan, and supervising and recording the irrigation progress to finish irrigation distribution.
Wherein, according to the irrigation district management needs, register irrigation unit according to irrigation management registration flow, include:
according to the irrigation area management requirement, according to the space relation between the irrigation units and the channels, canal section units are added to the right branch of the binary tree, the irrigation units are added to the left branch of the binary tree, and the registration of the irrigation application is completed.
Wherein, according to the irrigation district management needs, register irrigation unit according to irrigation management registration flow, still include:
according to the obtained irrigation application, according to the spatial relationship of the irrigation units, after the canal section unit is added to the right branch of the binary tree, the irrigation unit is added to the left branch of the canal section unit, the irrigation unit is added to the right branch of the canal section unit, the canal section unit is added to the right branch of the canal section unit, the irrigation unit is added to the left branch of the canal section unit, and the irrigation unit completes the registration of the irrigation application.
Plan water distribution is carried out according to the obtained irrigation application message, and an irrigation scheduling plan is gathered and adjusted according to a back root traversal method, and the method comprises the following steps:
and distributing the planned water amount in each irrigation unit and distributing emergency and reserve water at the same time according to the registered topological relation of the irrigation units in the binary tree.
Plan water distribution is carried out according to the obtained irrigation application message, and an irrigation scheduling plan is gathered and adjusted according to a back root traversal method, and the method further comprises the following steps:
simplifying the acquired irrigation application message into a rectangular strip, collecting and boxing the irrigation applications of all nodes in the binary tree by adopting a late root traversal method, and carrying out corresponding processing according to the collected matching result of the irrigation applications and the irrigation plan.
Wherein, according to the summarized matching result of the irrigation application and the irrigation plan, the corresponding processing is carried out, which comprises the following steps:
if the summarized irrigation application is not matched with the irrigation plan, under the constraint of the binary tree, the management unit at the same level or the management unit at the higher level is adjusted until the summarized irrigation application is matched with the irrigation plan, and then the corresponding irrigation application is approved.
Wherein, send out the irrigation notice message according to the said irrigation scheduling scheme after adjusting, and supervise and record the irrigation progress, finish the irrigation and distribute, including:
and sending a corresponding irrigation notification message according to the adjusted irrigation application, executing irrigation after confirming the message, reporting the irrigation progress, and simultaneously monitoring and recording the irrigation progress.
The invention relates to a GIS-based irrigation area irrigation management method, which comprises the steps of dividing irrigation areas based on a GIS, connecting the divided areas into a binary tree according to a dividing result, and registering irrigation units according to the irrigation management registration flow according to the irrigation area management requirement; plan water distribution and emergency reserve water distribution are carried out according to the obtained irrigation management application message, and the irrigation scheduling plan is summarized and adjusted according to the received irrigation application and a back root traversal method; and sending an irrigation notification message according to the adjusted irrigation scheduling plan, monitoring and recording the irrigation progress, and monitoring and recording whether the emergency reserve water is used for completing irrigation in the irrigation process, so that the working efficiency of irrigation area management is improved.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of steps of a GIS-based irrigation area irrigation management method provided by the invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart of the irrigation area for applying irrigation and optimizing irrigation scheduling according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a logical structure diagram of irrigation management based on binary tree irrigation area provided by the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a structure diagram of the irrigation scheduling system based on GIS provided by the present invention.
Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of an irrigation unit registration provided by the present invention.
Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of management unit registration provided by the present invention.
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Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are illustrative and intended to be illustrative of the invention and are not to be construed as limiting the invention.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the present invention provides a method for irrigation management based on GIS irrigation area, including:
and S101, dividing irrigation areas based on the GIS, and connecting the divided irrigation areas into a binary tree according to a dividing result.
Specifically, an irrigation scheduling system structure based on a GIS (geographic information system) is shown in fig. 4, and the irrigation scheduling system includes unit registration, cancellation, irrigation application, approval, statistics, reporting, approval, notification, execution, interactive irrigation process, supervision and other workflows. The field management mainly comprises a soil moisture content sensor, an irrigation application App, an irrigation progress report App and a field gate intelligent lock; the server side mainly comprises irrigation unit registration, a spatial database and irrigation area comprehensive query, and the channel management mainly comprises modules of irrigation application approval, dispatcher query, irrigation progress tracking, irrigation scheduling optimization and the like.
Since the left and right banks do not need to be distinguished in the application of irrigation, the irrigation area is further simplified into a binary tree under a GIS (geographic information system), as shown in a logical structure diagram of the Whenon canal irrigation area provided in FIG. 3, wherein vertical line nodes represent management units, blank nodes represent canal section units, and horizontal line nodes represent irrigation units. In the simplification process, a channel is divided into a plurality of channel section units according to the position of a water intake; simplifying the irrigation area into irrigation units, and arranging the irrigation units at one side of the channel along the position of the water intake; the canal section and the irrigation unit are connected to form a binary tree model, and then the management unit is aggregated to form a binary tree water distribution model, wherein the management unit comprises a channel management department, a rural water utilization association, a gate and the like. . The basic structure of the binary tree is a parent-child relationship: in the simplified process, if a certain node has more than two water diversion ports, the logical relationship of water diversion is firstly determined, virtual nodes are inserted, and the canal water "flows into" the virtual nodes and then is diverted, so that each canal segment only manages one irrigation unit, and the canal segment unit attributes comprise canal segment IDs, cross sections, design flow, and the like; the irrigation unit attributes comprise management areas, planted crops, land weight digital certificates, irrigation applications and the like; the management unit is composed of a channel management department, a rural water utilization association, a gate and the like, and the attributes comprise a name, an irrigation planning schedule and the like.
And S102, registering the irrigation units according to the irrigation management registration flow according to the irrigation area management requirement.
Specifically, according to the management requirement of the corresponding irrigation area and the spatial relationship between the irrigation unit and the channel, the irrigation unit is added in the binary tree, namely the binary tree grows, and the binary tree grows into a left branch and a right branch and is generally used for irrigation unit registration and management unit registration. When the right branch grows, a channel unit P is added to the right branch of the binary tree, and an irrigation unit M is added to the left branch of the channel unit P2Completing registration of the irrigation application, as shown in the registration diagram of irrigation unit provided in fig. 5; when the left branch growth is carried out, a channel section P is added to the left branch of the corresponding node1P2Wherein, the left branch and the right branch can represent channel units and can be changed left and right according to requirements; dividing irrigation unit M into M1And M2Then, M is mapped according to the spatial topological relation1And M2Is added in the trench section P1P2Node pointOn the left branch, registration of the irrigation application is completed, as shown in the management unit registration diagram provided in fig. 6, where P and P1、P2The node is a virtual node, only the water diversion port is shown, the sequence of irrigation is not distinguished, the newly registered irrigation unit does not change the irrigation area, the water quantity and the crop planting structure generally, and only the management granularity is increased, namely F (M) is F (M)1)+F(M2)。
And S103, carrying out planned water distribution according to the obtained irrigation application message, and summarizing and adjusting the irrigation scheduling plan according to a back root traversal method.
Specifically, as shown in the schematic flow chart of the GIS-based irrigation management method for an irrigation area, which is provided in fig. 2, planned water distribution is performed according to the spatial topological relation of the irrigation units in the binary tree water distribution model, in a planned water distribution service, the binary tree is traversed first, that is, the downstream flow is the upstream flow minus the water distribution flow of the irrigation management unit, and planned irrigation, emergency water and reserve water are distributed in a scheduling plan to adapt to the complex irrigation environment of the irrigation area, so that scheduling calculation is optimized; then, according to the obtained irrigation application information, summarizing the irrigation applications of all nodes in the binary tree by adopting a back root traversal method, namely that the upstream water amount is the accumulation or continuation of the downstream water amount and the water intake flow of a management unit, boxing by adopting a rectangular strip, and carrying out corresponding processing according to the summarized matching result of the irrigation applications and an irrigation plan: if the summarized irrigation application is not matched with an irrigation plan, the irrigation plan is adjusted in the same-level management unit or the higher-level management unit under the constraint of the binary tree until the summarized irrigation application is matched with the irrigation plan, and then the corresponding irrigation application is approved.
And S104, sending an irrigation notification message according to the adjusted irrigation scheduling plan, and supervising and recording the irrigation progress to finish irrigation distribution.
Specifically, according to after the adjustment irrigation application sends corresponding irrigation notice message, the staff is informed in advance to the system, treats the staff and confirms to carry out irrigation after carrying out personnel's confirmation message, and in time report the irrigation progress through the App, supervise and take notes the irrigation in-process simultaneously: when the planned water amount is used up but the irrigation is not finished, irrigating by using the emergency water; when the emergency water amount is used up but the irrigation is not finished, informing a higher management unit to irrigate by using the reserved water; if the emergency and reserve water is not used for irrigation, a problem group is dispatched to search the root cause and then the system is informed to archive and store all records in the irrigation process. The irrigation area is managed by introducing a binary tree structure, so that the whole and partial relation of the trunk-branch irrigation ditches is reflected, and the actual natural topological characteristics of the irrigation area are better met; under the spatial structure constraint, water distribution is planned, irrigation applications are gathered, and irrigation scheduling is optimized, so that the modernization capacity of irrigation area irrigation management can be improved, the irrigation timeliness is guaranteed, the irrigation scheduling is optimized, and the work efficiency of irrigation area management is improved.
The invention relates to an irrigation management method based on a GIS irrigation area, which comprises the steps of dividing an irrigation area based on the GIS, connecting the divided areas into binary trees according to dividing results, and then growing the binary trees by an irrigation unit registration process to form an irrigation area water distribution model; then, distributing emergency and reserve water according to the binary tree water distribution model to form an irrigation water distribution plan; according to the received irrigation application message, summarizing and adjusting the irrigation plan according to a back-root traversal binary tree method to form an irrigation scheduling plan, and sending out an irrigation notification message according to the optimized irrigation scheduling plan; the intelligent field gate lock is adopted to coordinate irrigation work between a dispatcher and an administrator, the irrigation progress is interacted, the irrigation process is recorded, supervised and reported, irrigation management big data is formed, and the work efficiency of irrigation area management is improved.
While the invention has been described with reference to a preferred embodiment, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

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1. A GIS-based irrigation area irrigation management method is characterized by comprising the following steps:
dividing irrigation areas based on a GIS, and connecting the divided irrigation areas into binary trees according to division results;
registering the irrigation units according to the irrigation management registration flow according to the irrigation area management requirement;
planning water distribution according to the obtained irrigation application message, and summarizing and adjusting an irrigation scheduling plan according to a back root traversal method;
and sending an irrigation notification message according to the adjusted irrigation scheduling plan, and supervising and recording the irrigation progress to finish irrigation distribution.
2. The GIS-based irrigation management method of claim 1, wherein registering irrigation units according to an irrigation management registration process according to irrigation management needs comprises:
according to the irrigation area management requirement, according to the space relation between the irrigation units and the channels, canal section units are added to the right branch of the binary tree, the irrigation units are added to the left branch of the binary tree, and the registration of the irrigation application is completed.
3. The GIS-based irrigation management method of claim 1, wherein the irrigation units are registered according to an irrigation management registration process according to irrigation management needs, further comprising:
according to the obtained irrigation application, according to the spatial relationship of the irrigation units, after the canal section unit is added to the right branch of the binary tree, the irrigation unit is added to the left branch of the canal section unit, the irrigation unit is added to the right branch of the canal section unit, the canal section unit is added to the right branch of the canal section unit, the irrigation unit is added to the left branch of the canal section unit, and the irrigation unit completes the registration of the irrigation application.
4. The GIS-based irrigation management method of claim 1, wherein planning water distribution according to the obtained irrigation application message, and summarizing and adjusting an irrigation scheduling plan according to a back-root traversal method comprises:
and distributing the planned water amount in each irrigation unit and distributing emergency and reserve water at the same time according to the registered topological relation of the irrigation units in the binary tree.
5. The GIS-based irrigation management method of claim 4 wherein planning water distribution is performed according to the obtained irrigation application message, and the irrigation scheduling plan is summarized and adjusted according to a back-root traversal method, further comprising:
simplifying the acquired irrigation application message into a rectangular strip, collecting and boxing the irrigation applications of all nodes in the binary tree by adopting a late root traversal method, and carrying out corresponding processing according to the collected matching result of the irrigation applications and the irrigation plan.
6. The GIS-based irrigation area management method according to claim 5, wherein the corresponding processing according to the summarized matching result of the irrigation application and the irrigation plan comprises:
if the summarized irrigation application is not matched with the irrigation plan, under the constraint of the binary tree, the management unit at the same level or the management unit at the higher level is adjusted until the summarized irrigation application is matched with the irrigation plan, and then the corresponding irrigation application is approved.
7. The GIS-based irrigation management method of claim 6, wherein the sending of the irrigation notification message according to the adjusted irrigation scheduling plan, and the monitoring and recording of the irrigation progress to complete the irrigation distribution comprises:
and sending a corresponding irrigation notification message according to the adjusted irrigation application, executing irrigation after confirming the message, reporting the irrigation progress, and simultaneously monitoring and recording the irrigation progress.
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