A decade of irrigation automation
NIWA’s Instrument Systems team has just commissioned three new state-of-the-art water monitoring and control stations on the Waimakariri Irrigation Scheme, one of the largest schemes in the South Island.
Instrument Systems Update 13, October 2009
8 October 2009
Welcome to NIWA's Instrument Systems Update. The 2009 irrigation season has started!
The NIWA Instrument Systems team is heavily involved in designing, building, installing, commissioning, and supporting state-of-the-art irrigation technology; we also manage data generated by our instruments. Here we bring you news of some of our latest technology and projects.
Meet the Miniflume: a new water control system
Meet the Miniflume, a new system we have developed to automatically and accurately control the abstraction of small volumes of irrigation water. The system is ideal, for example, to control water abstraction when filling a farm storage dam.
Integrated irrigation eases the load for landowners
NIWA telemetry instruments form an essential component of a new centre pivot irrigation system at Station Peak, in the Waitaki Valley.
Upgrading the Fiji Met Service's rainfall network
NIWA has recently supplied and installed 17 automatic rainfall stations in the Fiji Meterological Service’s (FMS) new telemetered rainfall network.