Applications of gis software in irrigation project management

الملخص EN

Irrigation is one of the most important input for an efficient and sustainable agricultural production.

Irrigation experts are seeking the ways in which the water is used very efficiently.

So, good and sustainable irrigation project management leads to success of irrigation.

A providing large amount of data is of great necessity for management of large scale irrigation projects.

This work involves a theoretical study to use the gis software in irrigation project management.

The study have been applied on the north zone of hilla-kifil irrigation project which is located in the middle part of iraq.

It includes four applications of gis software namely (gis mapping, database integration, planning / management and modeling).

The aims of these applications are to present the importance of using the gis software in many purposes in irrigation project management.

The study shows individually the benefits of using of each application in irrigation project and the necessary data required for each application.