Paul Senne

Bio: Mr. Senne is a GIS Developer with a background in geography, biological sciences and environmental policy. His main area of expertise is in spatial analysis and development surrounding water quantity and quality modeling; working at the crossroads of environmental policy where it meets GIS and information technology.

Building a Conservation Irrigation Management Application

Across the agricultural landscape of America, many areas exist where groundwater use is approaching or exceeding its sustainability threshold. This presentation will discuss a conservation irrigation scheduling application powered by PostgreSQL/PostGIS and other open source components. To make daily irrigation recommendations, the system pulls data from sources like National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) rainfall using NOAA’s Weather Climate Toolkit. Weather and stream monitoring data are imported automatically, and the system supports the import and viewing of groundwater and soil moisture sensor data. Flask and SQLAlchemy are used to tie the backend to the client side which is developed primarily with Leaflet and Bootstrap.

PostgreSQL, postgis, conservation, irrigation, Postgis Raster, Leaflet