PureSense. Irrigation Manager. User Guide

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1 PureSense Irrigation Manager User Guide 2011 PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Michelle M. Frey, Brandon Riggenti February 2, 2012

2 Table of Contents Quick Steps to viewing the Readings for your Sites... 4 Finding ETo data (when a * weather station is installed)... 4 The Irrigation Manager Work Space... 5 Live View... 5 The Navigation Panel in Live View... 6 Understanding the Map in Live View... 7 Hover display and configuration... 8 Reading Charts... 9 The Reading Charts screen General Navigation Main Menu File View Charts Tools Planner Scheduler Wizards Reports Help Navigation Panel Water Management Chart Water Balance Chart Heat/Chill Hours Chart Growing Degree Day Chart Configuration Build Your Farm Build an Irrigation Set Map Your Fields Define Your Crops Defining Irrigation Systems Assign Monitoring Station(s) Filter (Pump) Station Define Your Block Planner Planner Wizard Building Your Irrigation Plan Use an Irrigation Plan Template Copy an Existing Irrigation Plan Build a Custom Irrigation Plan Irrigation Plan Targets Making Changes to Irrigation Plans Copying Irrigation Plans Scheduling Your Irrigation Plan Planner Reports Scheduler Get Started PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 2

3 Define a Scheduling Operation Schedule Your Irrigation Sets Publish Your Irrigation Schedule Track Your Irrigation Operation Calendar Set Display Preferences Manage Field Events Reports Irrigation Management Forecasts > ET Scheduling Report Operations Schedules Monitoring Reports Plan Reports Scheduling Work Order Reports Report Subscriptions Exporting Data Using the Readings Table Walkthrough Release Notes Release Release Glossary of Terms Contact Us Locations Customer Support Information Application Notes Available Water Google It! Moisture States Volumetric Soil Moisture Defining Available Water Relating Available Water and Volumetric Soil Moisture Visualize Your Roots Follow the Road Signs of Your Crop s Growth PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 3

4 Quick Steps to viewing the Readings for your Sites There are several different methods for viewing the most current information being collected by your PureSense field monitoring stations. The most commonly used methods are listed below, including methods for viewing your data on your iphone, ipad, or Android smartphone. In Live View, move your mouse cursor over the icon of a site, or the name of a site, to see the Hover pop-up window. o Soil Moisture/Irrigation Last 7 Days: this displays a mini-reading Chart for the last 7 days of a selected sensor. Change the selected sensor by right-clicking on the site icon or name and selecting, Change Default Soil Moisture Sensor. o Latest Readings: this is a list of the latest readings collected. Change which readings are displayed by right-clicking on the site and selecting Change Hover Display. Double-click on the icon or name of a site to launch its Reading Chart. This chart displays the soil moisture, and climate trends for your site. The default view is of the soil moisture trends for the Last 30 Days. In the PureSense app for iphones, tap the List button at the top of the screen to view a list of all sites. Scroll through the List and tap on a site s name to view its Reading Chart for the last 7 days. Tap the chart to zoom in. Use the buttons above the chart to change between views of 1 day, 2 days, 7 days, 1 month, 3 months, and 1 year. In the PureSense app for Android smartphones, tap the Menu button and select List. The steps for viewing charts is the same as the iphone. On the ipad, launch the PureSense HD app. Tap the List button at the top of the screen. The steps for viewing charts is the same as the iphone. Alerts for a site can be viewed in the following ways: o On your PC, right-click on the icon for a site or its name and select Alerts. o On your iphone, tap the Alerts button at the bottom of the screen. o On your ipad, tap the Alerts button in the upper-right corner of the screen. o On your Android phone, tap the Menu button and select Alerts. Finding ETo data (when a * weather station is installed) When a weather station is installed, the icon of the station on the Map has a small * asterisk in the left corner. Use the following methods to find the Daily ETo readings from your weather stations. Readings are displayed in inches. On your PC, there are two methods: o Hover over the icon or name of a weather station in Live View. The Day Eto is listed under Latest Readings. o Pull down the Reports menu from the top of Live View and select Monitoring > Daily Weather. In the Number of Days field (top section of report), enter how far into the past you would like to see the Day ETo readings, then click the View Report button (upper-right corner). By default, the report shows all weather stations. On your iphone, ipad, or Android smartphone: o Select a * weather station from the Map or List. When the Site Detail pop-up is displayed, scroll to the right or tap the right arrow to view the Latest Readings page. Day ETo is listed in the readings PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 4

5 The Irrigation Manager Work Space The work space of the application is where information is displayed as appropriate to the section of the application. For the Live View, the work space presents the Live View Map with all assets available for view on the map along with icons and Hover information. The Planner provides two tabs for the work space displaying plan targets and tracking reports. The Scheduler displays the tracking of published schedules and actual irrigation hours for the selected weeks and those irrigation sets in the selected irrigation operation. Calendar opens field calendars and Reports displays the selected report in the work space. Live View The Live View presents users with information about what is happening now in the field. The monitoring stations provide information about soil moisture, irrigation operations, and in some cases, weather conditions. Irrigation sets also provide information about irrigation operations and the schedule of events for the current week. The displays in the Live View also can show information about what each asset is and its key characteristics. Figure 1: Live View 2011 PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 5

6 The Navigation Panel in Live View The Navigation Panel for the Live View allows users to navigate directly to any asset in Irrigation Manager. The assets will appear in their organizational order, grouped by the Farm that they are associated with and then in alphabetical order thereafter. The Live View defaults to displaying the monitoring and current conditions information. When users want to see the configuration information about their assets, they can switch the Live View Mode to Configuration (in the upper-right corner of Live View). Figure 3: Changing the Live View Mode to switch to Configuration Mode. Figure 2: Navigation Panel All navigational functions that apply to an asset s Map view also apply to the representation of that asset in the Navigation Panel. For example, rolling your cursor over an icon or a monitoring station s name in the Navigation Panel will display the Hover. Double-clicking on an icon will open the site s Readings Chart PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 6

7 Understanding the Map in Live View The Live View Map has several features to enable users to navigate through their fields, monitoring information, and irrigation operations. Figure 4: Map with displayed Legend, Monitoring Icons, and their descriptions. Monitoring Icons. Each field monitoring station is shown on the Live View Map by an icon that indicates the relative moisture level in the soils at that location. The Live View Map Legend, accessible by clicking on the i icon in the lower-right corner of the Live View Map, provides you with an explanation of all of the possible icon conditions for your monitoring stations. Click the i icon again to hide the Legend. Display Filters. The assets of a farm can be shown or not shown on the Live View Map by toggling the Display Filters that appear across the top of the map (Irrigation Sets, Monitoring Stations, Blocks, and Filter Stations). Streaming Lat/Long Readings. As a user moves their cursor, the latitude and longitude display will stream the values for the placement of the cursor on the Live View Map. To see Lat/Long readings, go to the main menu and click on Tools > Options > Mapping and check the box for Show Latitude and Longitude on Map. Zoom Controls. Users can zoom in and out of the Live View Map using the + and buttons. By clicking on the name of a site in the Navigation Panel, the map will automatically optimize the view of the asset, zooming into the area of the asset. The map can also be displayed to show Roads only, Aerial only, or a Hybrid view of roads and aerial images PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 7

8 Hover display and configuration Users can open the Hover displays for any site by rolling their cursor over the site s icon, shape or name in the Navigation Panel. By selecting the Live View Mode, the content of the Hover changes for monitoring stations and irrigation sets. Figure 5: Example of a Hover in Status Mode Figure 6: Example of a Hover in Configuration Mode The Status mode provides users with real-time monitoring results, a 7-day readings chart, and various gauges on the status of their monitoring system while the Configuration mode displays information about the station like its latitude and longitude and various system identifiers. The important sections of a Hover display to most growers are: Soil Moisture/Irrigation Last 7 Days: this displays a mini-reading Chart for the last 7 days of a selected sensor. Change the selected sensor by right-clicking on the site icon or name and selecting, Change Default Soil Moisture Sensor. Latest Readings: this is a list of the latest readings collected. Change which readings are displayed by rightclicking on the site and selecting Change Hover Display. If you select to display your Blocks and Filter Stations, brief Configuration Hover displays will be available to you on the Live View as well. Users can modify their Hover views in two ways: Right-click on a monitoring icon, and select Edit Hover Content to toggle on or off the display of specific sensor readings on your Hover for the monitoring station status; and, Go to Tools > Options > Live View to toggle on or off areas of the Hover for your monitoring station including (a) all gauges, (b) the 7-day readings chart; (c) the powdery mildew risk index display; and (d) all selected sensor readings PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 8

9 Reading Charts The Reading Charts displays all monitored data for monitoring stations. There are several default charts ready delivered with Irrigation Manager : Soil Moisture, Climate, and Support. The Soil Moisture chart is set as the default Reading Chart that opens when a user double-clicks on an icon or the name of a monitoring station. The figure below shows an example of a Reading Chart and how the data gathered by the sensors are displayed on the chart (in this example, a 1.5 meter Sentek soil moisture probe and a pressure switch). The Soil Moisture chart displays reading trends based on the soil moisture and irrigation sensors installed at the site. Figure 7: Reading Chart showing soil moisture trends for a Sentek 1.5 meter probe with sensors at 12", 24", 36", 48" and 60" depths. Irrigation Events are recorded using a pressure switch, and show date and duration of events. When you first launch a Reading Chart, the default Date Range is Last 30 Days. Select from a list of Date Range choices by using the pull-down menu. A custom date range can also be displayed by selecting a From and To date. The Resolution of the Reading Chart refers to how many data points are being used to draw the trend lines in the chart. None: the trend lines display raw data collected every 15 minutes from the site. This is most useful when the Last 7 Days date range is selected, or the custom date range is set to a week or less. Hour: Data collected every 15 minutes is averaged together for each hour. This is most useful when displaying days worth of data. Day: Data for an entire day is averaged for each data point in the trend line. This is most useful when displaying Last 365 Days, or a similar length date range. After changing settings, click Update Chart to refresh the screen PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 9

10 The Reading Charts screen The Chart Configuration panel allows you to: Select the Site, and Chart View (Soil Moisture, Climate, or Support) Select the Chart View Options that affect the vertical scale of each graph, and other options. Select which sensors are displayed in the chart by checking the box next to a sensor in the list. And access Sensor Settings, where Boundaries can be set for each sensor. As discussed on the previous page, the top section controls the Date Range and Resolution of the data displayed in the graphs. By hovering your mouse cursor over a specific time in the chart, the specific data readings for that time are displayed in the bottom section. These are similar to the current readings displayed in a Hover pop-up window in Live View. When you hover your mouse cursor over the Soil Moisture Trends bar on the far right, a slide out panel displays examples of soil moisture trends you might see in the graphs in your chart. Hovering your mouse over an example trend displays a brief explanation of that trend PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 10

11 General Navigation Main Menu The main application menu provides users with direct access to application work areas, tools, and general system usability. There will always be more than one way to navigate to a task, and the main menu provides users with easy navigation to many components of Irrigation Manager. File New. Create a new Zone, Sub-zone (Farm), Irrigation Set, Block, Pump Station, or Calendar Event directly from the menu. User Profile. Open your user profile to update information, change your login name or password, or verify your existing information. Customer Profile. You can view, edit, and save the information about your account. Exit. Closes the Irrigation Manager application. View Navigation Panel. Controls the display of the navigation panel, toggles it either to display or to be hidden. Site Configuration. This opens the monitoring station configuration data for a customer s sites in a new window. Live View Mode. Users can toggle the Live View display to either show the Status or the Configuration of the fields and assets shown. Map Filters. Users can toggle on or off the various map display filters, namely Irrigation Sets, Monitoring stations, Blocks, and Pump Stations. Reset Map. This freshens the Live View map display to show all assets of the customer. Charts Reading Chart. The reading chart displays monitoring data over the last 30-day period (default), and when opened from the menu, the reading chart for the first monitoring station in an account s organization is opened. Management Chart. The management chart is opened by double clicking on an irrigation set and the Water Demand view is set as the default chart for display. The Water Demand chart displays the various parameters most important to a user s irrigation scheduling decisions applied water, ET levels, growing degree days, and irrigation hours. For those locations where soils testing and ground truthing of the soil moisture sensors is completed, available water charts are also provided in the Management Chart. Water Balance. The Water Balance tracks the cumulative ratio of water entering and leaving the soil profile over the last 365-days (default period), and when opened from the menu, the chart for the first monitoring station in an account s organization is opened. Heat/Chill Hours. This chart tracks the daily and accumulated heat and chill hours based on temperature thresholds for the current year (default), and when opened from the menu, the Heat/Chill Hours chart for the first monitoring station 2011 PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 11

12 in an account s organization is opened. This chart is only available for those monitoring stations that have at least one temperature sensor. Growing Degree Days. This chart tracks the daily and accumulated growing degree days (GDD) values for the current year (default), and when opened from the menu, the GDD chart for the first monitoring station in an account s organization is opened. This chart is only available for those monitoring stations that have at least one temperature station. Tools Boundary Tool. The boundary tool is used to set soil moisture boundaries that use the site-specific soils and ground truth information along with user set safety factors. System-generated boundaries are produced for volumetric soil moisture, the percent available water, and available water inches. Change Customer. For those users that have access to multiple accounts, you can switch between accounts using Change Customer. Readings Table. The readings table opens for the first monitoring station in the organizational list of stations and the table allows users to export, copy, print, or save monitoring data. Refresh Site Data. To refresh the data for your system, click on refresh site data and receive the latest information from the PureSense servers delivered to your application. Options. Click on options to set user preferences for a variety of display and operational conditions such as refresh frequency, units of measure, Hover displays, and chart settings. Planner Manage Plans. Active and inactive plans can be accessed, viewed, deleted, and applied to irrigation sets. Plan Wizard. The Planner Wizard guides users through the various planning functions, build, manage, edit, and track plan results. Planner Reports. Reports that track and evaluate performance in meeting plan targets. Plan Template Utility. For users with the proper permissions, the Planner Template Utility allows users to create, save, edit, publish, and delete plan templates that any user can access to help build their irrigation plans. Scheduler ET Reference Data. Opens the ET Reference Data system that users can use to view the reference ET data used by the Planner and Scheduler in setting water budgets and performing weekly forecasts. Irrigation Forecaster. The Irrigation Forecaster provides estimates of the soil moisture bank conditions, the time to irrigate next, effective infiltration rate, and the water balance components of total applied water and apparent root uptake. The soil moisture sensor set in the Forecaster determines the data displayed in the monitoring station Hover. Irrigation Operations. Opens a new form where irrigation operations can be viewed, edited, and deleted. Work Order Reports. For any published Schedule, Work Order Reports can be generated, printed, ed, or saved PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 12

13 Wizards Getting Started Wizard. Launches the new Getting Started Wizard to help users navigate Irrigation Manager. Reports Configuration. Reports that describes the definition of the field assets and crops being produced. Irrigation Management. A series of reports describing irrigation operations and performance. Monitoring. A series of reports that summarize monitored conditions for managed fields. Plan Performance. Track progress against irrigation plans using the Plan Performance reports. Help Online Help. Opens the Help system where you can find more information as needed about Irrigation Manager. User Guide. Access a dynamic User Guide web site where you can easily navigate to sections of the guide to learn more about Irrigation Manager and how to maximize your value in using this important tool. Technical Support. Opens our Online Live Support chat tool so you can get answers to your question immediately. News & Events. Opens a display of up-coming events and breaking news that may be of interest to our growers. Training Events. Opens a display of the up-coming Training events available for sign up. About. Provides the version information for the latest Irrigation Manager release. Navigation Panel Users can navigate to the major sections of the Irrigation Manager application using the buttons on the lower left-side of the navigation panel: Live View Planner Scheduler Calendar Reports Users can hide or re-order these navigation buttons by clicking on the» symbol in the lower right-hand side of the navigation panel. The Navigation Panel also displays a customer s assets in accordance with their organizational order. Users can change the assets to be displayed by clicking on the asset type at the top of the Navigation Panel. The Panel can be retracted by un-pinning the panel (toggle on or off) using the push pin symbol located in the upper right-hand corner of the panel PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 13

14 Water Management Chart The Water Management Chart provides users with access to those measurements that are directly related to making irrigation management decisions. These measures are typically more highly aggregated and often represent calculated fields representing the operation or condition of irrigation systems and their irrigated fields. In the example provided here, the last 365 days of such parameters as ET, applied water, irrigation hours, and growing degree days are summarized by their monthly totals. Available Water charts are also available when a customer s soil moisture sensors have been fully ground truthed and soil characteristics data are complete for their monitoring stations. Water Balance Chart The Water Balance Chart displays (by default) the last 365 days of water balance calculated values. The Water Balance measure in the main body of the chart represents the ratio of the water that infiltrates into the soil profile to the amount of water that leaves the soil profile. The measures used to calculate this ratio are the relative change in soil moisture readings and the calculation is performed as follows: Water Balance Ratio = Σ [(SM t SM t-1 ) when > 0] / Σ [(SM t SM t-1 ) when < 0] The running average of the Water Balance Ratio for a period of 30-days is displayed for a 365-day period. We use a 30- day running average for the Water Balance Ratio so as to account for the effect of soil moisture storage in the soil profile between irrigation events. This dampens short-term fluctuations in soil moisture response while trending with overall changes in the relative fill or depletion of soil moisture levels in the profile. The lower portion of the chart displays the daily net change in soil moisture through the soil profile resolved daily. This net change in soil moisture is estimated in inches of water, but these have not yet been calibrated to local soil profile conditions. The Chart Configuration section of the chart allows a user to set a different time frame than a 365-day running period. Users can explicitly define a start and end time frame. Users can also change the default time period for all of their Water Balance Charts in the Tools > Options > Water Balance Chart menu item. Heat/Chill Hours Chart Heat Hours and Chill Hours are both tracked daily and accumulated through the current year s time period. The default settings for each have a temperature threshold that above or below which, hours are accumulated for the Heat and Chill Hours chart, respectively. The default threshold set for the Heat Hours is 100 o F and the threshold for the Chill Hours is 45 o F. Those hours that qualify as a heat or chill hour are those that have an average temperature level that falls above or below the threshold, respectively. Users can change the thresholds used for the heat and chill hour calculations either for a given set using the Chart Configuration section of the chart, or for all monitoring stations by changing the thresholds in the File > Customer Profile menu item to make the changes apply to all of their monitoring stations. If you want to set separate or different thresholds for individual fields, then click on Override Customer Settings for Heat/Chill and GDD Calculations on the Irrigation Set Configuration Detail form. You can then set the thresholds and time periods that you want for that specific field PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 14

15 Growing Degree Day Chart The Growing Degree Day (GDD) chart presents the daily and accumulated GDD values through the current calendar year. The daily average temperature levels are also shown on the chart. In calculating the GDD values each day, users can select three inputs to the formula: The GDD Threshold that acts as a lower threshold for temperature values and those hours where the temperature value is above that threshold are accumulated to determine the GDD value; An Upper Threshold where when the temperature exceeds this threshold, the calculation of the GDD value is altered based on its selected treatment in the Upper Threshold Type selected; and, The Upper Threshold Type defines how GDD is calculated when the upper threshold is exceeded where None adds no new accumulation of GDD and Horizontal Cutoff uses the upper threshold value as the T max value for the day in estimating GDD levels. The calculation of GDD is as follows: GDD = ((T max + T min )/2) GDD Threshold where T max and T min are the maximum and minimum temperature hourly average for the day. Changes in any of the GDD settings can be made in the Chart Configuration section of the chart for any given monitoring station. Global changes in settings can be accomplished by clicking on File > Customer Profile and this will apply to all of your GDD charts. If you want to set separate or different thresholds for individual fields, then click on Override Customer Settings for Heat/Chill and GDD Calculations on the Irrigation Set Configuration Detail form. You can then set the thresholds and time periods that you want for that specific field PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 15

16 Configuration The configuration of a grower s farming operation includes how fields and assets are organized, mapping and characterizing the fields in terms of their crops, irrigation systems, and block arrangements, assigning field monitoring stations to those fields to both report information about their status and provide management tools based on the status of a monitored fields. Configuration is now part of the Live View, and is easily accessed by switching from the Live View Mode of Status to that of Configuration. Build Your Farm Users can create a farm in which irrigation sets will be located. Farms act as a way to group irrigation sets together based on geographical proximity. Farm information that gets entered into the system includes the name of the Farm and the overall acres included in the farm. When a customer s organization has multiple business units, farms can be grouped together. When first building your farms, a business unit named default is provided. This unit can be renamed by the user. And, new business units can be created to organize additional groups of farms together. Additional reporting and charting tools will provide users with summary information at the farm and business unit level, so building out your organization as you do business will enable greater access to information that may be useful to you and your organization. Build an Irrigation Set Irrigation sets are the fields or sections of fields that is irrigated as a unit. In the Irrigation Manager application, an irrigation set is defined as a field that has a single crop type (it can have multiple varietals, though) and its irrigation operation is a single decision or controlled at a single irrigation filter (pump) station. You can build a new irrigation set by: (1) Using the Configuration Wizard and selecting Build an Irrigation Set; (2) Switch the Live View Mode to Configuration and click on New in the navigation panel; and (3) Using the main menu, click on Configuration > New > Irrigation Set. Use any of these methods to create a new irrigation set. When you start to build an Irrigation Set, the form will allow you to enter to required information to at a minimum to create an irrigation set. The inputs required to save an irrigation set are the name, acres, and crop type of the irrigation set. However, to effectively use all of the features of Irrigation Manager, irrigation sets must have a minimum of the following sections completed: Irrigation Method each irrigation system that can be independently operated for the irrigation set needs to be defined so the Irrigation Manager application can track your applied water and help you schedule your irrigation operation for the set; Assigned Field Monitoring Station as appropriate, if a monitoring station represents the operation of an irrigation set or its soil moisture profile, assign the monitoring station to the irrigation set(s) represented by the station. Information also associated with an irrigation set is the Filter (Pump) Station that provides the irrigation water resource to the irrigation set. You can even associate a filter station with each irrigation method where more than one irrigation method is defined and more than one filter station can supply the various methods PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 16

17 Users can also define their fields as Blocks these can either have multiple irrigation sets as part of a single block or multiple blocks as part of a single irrigation sets. The Block designation does not have many unique identifying fields except parcel number, but allows users to organize their irrigation operation in accordance to how their fields are organized for other purposes (e.g., general management, permitted applications, etc). Whenever you make any changes to the build out of your irrigation set, you MUST click on SAVE at the bottom for the system retain the changes made. If you are going to be working for a while, you may want to save your changes often and re-open the irrigation set form by clicking on Details button in the navigation panel. Map Your Fields A key part of defining your irrigation set is mapping your fields. The Irrigation Set Form displays a map on the right hand side where you can draw an outline of the field. By assigning your field monitoring station to your Irrigation Set, you can have the monitoring station appear on the map by clicking Show Related and select Monitoring Stations from the drop down list. This will orient the location of your field on the map. To create a map of your irrigation set, click on Draw New Irrigation Set. Instructions on how to draw your field will appear on your screen as text pop ups. Position your cursor at the edge of your field and right click. Now you can simply move your cursor along the edge of your field and you will see a blue line appear. When you want to adjust the line or make a turn in direction, right click again and move your cursor in the direction you want to go. When you have completed the outline of your field, left click and map is fixed in place. Note that the acres mapped will appear to the right of the Acreage field describing your irrigation set. You can verify the acreage you originally entered or the mapped acreage may serve as an indicator of your field s acreage. Define Your Crops Crop type information is required to use the Planner and Scheduler features of Irrigation Manager, and is important in generating many reports that may be of interest to you and your team. The critical fields to be completed are: Crop Type Row Spacing Plant Spacing Only one crop type can be defined per irrigation set, though multiple varietals may be defined for that crop type. If your crop type changes for a given irrigation set over time, you can change the crop type by clicking on Change next to the crop type and then set the end date of the current crop type and the start date for the new crop type. You can always view the crop history for a given irrigation set over time by clicking on History in the Crop Information area of the configuration form. Defining Irrigation Systems Irrigation systems are defined by the method(s) of irrigation available on a given field. Completing the definition of your irrigation system is critical to assuring full utilization of the Irrigation Manager application. To define your irrigation system, click on the Irrigation System button on your Irrigation Set form and follow the steps below: 2011 PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 17

18 Select your irrigation method. The system has options for compensated and non-compensated drip and microspray, sprinklers and rotators, pivot, linear, flood, other and fanjets/sprinners. Name your Irrigation Method. The system will automatically provide a default name that is the same as the method type you selected. If you have more than one method of the same type (e.g., 2 drip systems), then rename your method so they can be distinguished in the application. Depending on the method selected, the required fields to be completed will differ. For most of the forms, you need to input the following fields: Emitter Flow Rate. In the appropriate flow rate units, input the unit flow rate per emitter in your fields. System Uniformity. Using your best judgment, input the system uniformity of your irrigation system. This value is typically between 85% and 100% for most drip and microspray applications, while being lower for other irrigation methods. The number should be entered as a whole number that represents the percent uniformity for your fields (e.g., enter 85 and not 0.85). On each method (except pivot, linear and flood), the inputs needed to calculate your application rate are provided. You only need to input one of the available fields, and the calculator will automatically complete the calculations for you, displaying the number of emitters per acre, the total field flow (gpm) and the application rate (gph) for the irrigation method. For each irrigation method, you can assign a Pump Station to identify the pump station that delivers water to that irrigation method, and an Irrigation Sensor when you have more than one Monitoring Station assigned to the irrigation set. Assign Monitoring Station(s) When an irrigation set is monitored by a PureSense Monitoring Station, assign that monitoring station to the irrigation set so that its real-time data can be used to: Track the hours of irrigation and applied water that actually take place on the field; Assess soil moisture conditions for the irrigation set; Provide weather and Powdery Mildew forecast information for the set when the monitoring station includes a weather station, and Track your performance in meeting your planning targets. To assign a monitoring station to an irrigation set, click on the Monitoring Station button in the Irrigation Set form. Select a monitoring station from the list on the left hand side of the Add Monitoring Station form and use the arrow keys to move the selected station into the Related Monitoring Stations panel. Click on Save at the bottom of the form to keep your assigned monitoring station. When multiple monitoring stations are assigned to an irrigation set, the first set will be assigned as the monitoring station used to set your soil moisture management conditions (Live View color display changes with this monitoring station s results). You can edit this to be whichever monitoring station you want. You will be able to view information from each monitoring station on your water management charts using a drop down selection field PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 18

19 Filter (Pump) Station To build a new Filter (Pump) Station, click on the Build a Filter Station button on the Irrigation Set form. Your filter (pump) stations are defined in terms of the number of pumps, flow rates, operating pressure range, water resources used, and whether fertigation or chemigation systems are typically operated at those stations. This information is tracked today and will be used in the future as the new features include water resource allocation budgeting and tracking. Indicating which irrigation sets and irrigation systems are associated with a filter station will enable various reports to be generated on water use and resource limitation exception reports for irrigation scheduling. Define Your Block You can identify your blocks much like you do your irrigation sets, name and draw the boundaries to save them. Notes can be entered to describe the location of the block and field access instructions. This is particularly helpful for PureSense Field Service team members to be able to coordinate their maintenance service calls with your fields access requirements. Complete the parcel number for use by your PCA and crop consultants in completing permit prescriptions. Indicate your tillage method and crop cover conditions to finalize the description of your blocks PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 19

20 Planner The Planner helps growers set up and track their irrigation strategy and performance over the crop s production cycle. Plans can be built for each distinct year or new crop production cycle. The Planner section of the application has two general parts: Overall Plan Information. In this section, information that applies to all aspects of a given plan are managed. There are three tabs that a user can navigate between when working in a plan for an irrigation set: Plan Info is where general information is displayed, such as plan name, a description of the plan, the crop type, plan year, and an indicator as to whether the plan is currently active for a particular irrigation set or inactive. Crop Targets is where a user can input the targeted production levels in terms of yield and crop quality, in terms of average pricing, are stored. Actual crop production values for yield and pricing can also be captured here to enable the system to provide users with information on overall operational performance and irrigation efficiency through time. Applied Water is where the factors that affect the plan s generation of forecasted applied water requirements can be viewed and modified as appropriate. Plan Stage Information. The Planner enables users to select key crop development stages where the irrigation strategy for a given crop either changes or is associated with critical cultural or field management aspects of the crop s production cycle. These key stages can be assigned an onset date and a duration. In addition, performance targets can be set for irrigation such as applied water, root zone available water, deep water bank available water, and the growing degree day threshold at which the crop stage is expected to start. Designating a plan as Active tells the system that this is the plan you are currently trying to accomplish. Your inactive plans are stored and accessible for you to review in the Plan Reports or Manage Plans utility. To launch the Planner, you can either: Click on Planning and Scheduling on the Get Started Wizard. Click on the Planner button in the lower left-hand section of the navigation panel. Click on the Plan Wizard in the main menu under Planner. Planner Wizard To help you navigate through the Planner, use the Planner Wizard. You can launch the Wizard either from the Get Started Wizard, the main menu under Planner, and from any irrigation set that does not have an active plan designated when you are in the Planner section of the application. From the Planner Wizard, you can: Build an irrigation plan. For any irrigation set with no active plan, clicking on Build an irrigation plan will open a new wizard to help you construct your active plan for a selected irrigation set PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 20

21 Manage your irrigation plans. Opens a new form where you can view a list of active and inactive plans for your irrigation sets. Users can delete, copy, view, or create a new irrigation plan from this form. Input Crop and Pricing Info. This opens the active plan for a selected irrigation set so you can edit targets, crop stages, or color settings for the display of the stage in the Calendar. The plan must be saved after editing to include the changes made. View Planner Reports. A series of new reports are available to summarize your performance for all of your irrigation sets in meeting their plan objectives. Building Your Irrigation Plan Building an irrigation plan for your irrigation sets will improve your ability to track your on-going performance throughout the year. To start building your irrigation plans, you can either: Launch the Build a Plan Wizard from the Planner Wizard; Click on the Planner button on the left-hand side of the navigation plan and then select the irrigation set for which you want to build a plan; From the main menu, click on Planner > New and then select an irrigation set for which a plan is to be built. To build a plan, a user can start by: Select a Plan Template. Plan templates have been created by PureSense agronomic experts to assist growers in establishing an active plan for their irrigation sets. Copy an Existing Plan. Existing plans for other irrigation sets can be copied and applied to the selected irrigation plan. Build a Customer Plan. Users can always build a plan from scratch, select those crop stages of interest and set the performance targets that are relevant for their operation. Use an Irrigation Plan Template PureSense agronomic experts work with recognized crop specialists to design and construct irrigation plan templates suitable for your crop, irrigation method, and location. To build your plan starting with a Plan Template, take the following steps: Click on the Select a Plan Template button. The plan template dialogue appears, where you can scroll through the crop types and select the type for your irrigation set. Available templates will then appear for you to use. Once you have selected a plan, give your plan a name and a description for reference in the future. Any of the plan targets and crop stages can be edited by double clicking on any row. Set yield and pricing targets for your plan so you can compare your irrigation performance against actual crop production and quality results. Click Save to keep any changes you made to the plan by editing crop stages or setting yield and pricing targets PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 21

22 Copy an Existing Irrigation Plan If you have an irrigation plan already created that you want to use for another irrigation set, you can click on Select Existing Plan when you are at an irrigation set that does not yet have a plan assigned and follow these steps: Select an existing plan from your list of available plans. This includes currently active plans as well as inactive plans. The copied plan will be applied to the selected irrigation set. If the plan s crop type, ET Zone, or irrigation method do not match that of the selected set, users will be prompted to confirm that they still want to copy the selected plan. You will be asked to name your copied plan and you can input a plan description relevant to the selected irrigation set. Once the plan is copied, users can edit any of the plan targets or crop stages (including start date, end date, and/or duration) for the plan. If you edit the plan, click on Save when you are done so that your changes will be saved. Build a Custom Irrigation Plan To build a custom irrigation plan, click on New Custom Plan. A blank Plan Edit screen pops up, where you can start building your plan. This is the most complicated way to build an irrigation plan, and it is strongly recommended that users work with their PureSense Support Manager to work with you in defining your planning needs. Here are the steps you can follow to build your customer irrigation plan: Input your Plan Name and Description Select the crop type for your plan If this is to be the Active Plan for the selected irrigation set, check the Active Plan toggle Input your crop yield and pricing targets with appropriate units. Define your plan period. You can do this by completing any two of three data entries: Start Date, End Date and Duration. So if you know that your crop s first phenological change of significance say bud break occurs in mid February and that this is a permanent crop, the input February 15 for the plan year of interest and input a 365 day plan duration. Similarly, if you know that this plan is to be applied to a row crop that takes 150 days from planting to harvest, then input either the desired planting (start date) or harvest date (end date) and the crop s maturation period (150-days) to set your planning period. Click Next to select your crop stages for the plan or click on Save to save the plan information created. When selecting your crop stages, highlight the stages to be included in your plan and arrow it over into the other window. After selecting crop stages, you can then enter Field Events that you know you want to track on your field Calendar and that will take place during your planning period by clicking on Next. You do not have to add any events at this time, and can add them directly to your Calendar at a future date. When you click on Finish, your plan will appear in your Plan screen PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 22

23 To complete your plan s targets, double click on any crop stage row in the table and enter the target values that you want for that crop stage. Note that you can select a color to distinguish the display of the selected crop stage in your field Calendar. Once you have completed your plan, click on Save at the bottom of the Plan page to retain your changes. Irrigation Plan Targets Each irrigation plan allows a user to define irrigation performance targets that can guide success of the year s irrigation operation. Just complete as many targets as are important to you for your operation. Here is a list of available moisture management targets: Start Date the date at which the selected crop stage is anticipated to start. Root Zone Depth, inches this is the minimum depth to which you expect or want to see the majority of your root activity extend. Average Available Water in the Effective Root Zone, Percent this is the average fraction of available water you want to maintain in the effective root zone of your soil profile throughout the crop stage. Average Available Water in the Deep Water Bank, Percent this is the average fraction of available water you want to maintain in the deep water bank of your soil profile throughout the crop stage. Growing Degree Days this sets the target GDD level for the onset of the crop stage in your plan. You will be able to track your GDD level based on inputting the actual crop stage onset dates into the Plan over time. Thus, over time, tracking GDD actual values against actual onset dates for your crop stages will provide you with more informed estimates of your site specific crop development cycle. Moisture Trend Direction this defines the general direction that you are trying to accomplish in moisture management: Deficit, Maintenance, Fill, or None. Moisture Trend Percent this is the fraction reduction or increase in moisture levels that you want to achieve through your deficit or fill irrigation practice (e.g., to apply 15% less water than the normally required amount for deficit, just enter -15; or to apply 20% more than the normally used amount for fill, just enter 20). By selecting your start date for each crop stage and assigning the plan to an irrigation set, the following plan parameters are automatically generated: Reference Applied Water, inches the total inches of water expected to be consumed by the crop type of the irrigation set for the crop stage period using the reference ET system for the crop type. Plan Applied Water, inches total applied water for your crop type, irrigation method, and microclimate zone. The Applied Water is adjusted if you indicate the deficit or fill rates you want to achieve. In addition to the moisture management targets, users can set their crop yield and average pricing targets to track their performance in executing an irrigation plan against the productivity and quality of the resultant harvest. Making Changes to Irrigation Plans Irrigation plans can be edited at any time by simply double clicking on a crop stage row in the plan. A crop stage form will pop up on your screen to edit your plan targets, start and end dates, and the color preference for your Calendar s display. Once you are done editing your plan, you must Save your plan to retain your changes PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 23

24 You can also enter your observed Crop Yield and average prices for the irrigation set and the harvest associated with the plan. Click on the Crop Info tab at the top of the Planner form. Click on Edit to modify the form, and again, you must click on Save at the bottom right of the Plan page to retain the changes you made. Copying Irrigation Plans If you would like to build new plans from existing ones available for other irrigation sets, you can copy an existing plan to another irrigation set. There are several ways to do this, including the Copy a Plan described above for building a new plan from either the Wizard or the Planner landing page for an irrigation set with no existing plan. While in a plan, there are two buttons on the bottom of the page that enables a user to copy plans: Copy a Plan opens a dialogue where a user can select the irrigation set for which the plan is to be copied. You can rename the plan for the new set in this form. Multi-Copy allows a user to copy a plan to multiple irrigation sets at the same time. When this selected, a dialogue appears where a user can simple click on an irrigation set in the list of available irrigation set and right arrow them over to be included in the list of sets to have a copy made. The system will automatically name the copied plans using the standard PureSense naming convention of Irrigation Set Name + CROP TYPE + Start Year of the plan. If there is no active plan associated with an irrigation set that has a plan, the system will inquire if you want to make the copied plan the active plan if the current date is within the time frame of the copied plan. Scheduling Your Irrigation Plan Once your plan is completed, you can easily create an irrigation schedule based on that plan. The schedule produces the hours of irrigation to be performed each week of the planning period. Users can select a day of the week when they want the weekly schedule of irrigation hours to appear in both the Scheduler s gantt chart and the various scheduling reports, including work orders. Users can always edit a schedule either in the Scheduler or by modifying the Planner and clicking on the Schedule Plan button. If you do not have a Scheduling Operation either built or one that includes the irrigation set that is scheduled, then click on the Irrigation Set view in the Scheduler to see the weekly schedule produced from your plan. Also, note that to edit the schedule for any irrigation set, it must be included in an Irrigation Operation. To learn more about modifying your irrigation schedule or creating Irrigation Operations, go to the section on the Scheduler PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 24

25 Planner Reports Special reports are provided to help users track their irrigation operations performance against their plan targets. These reports can be viewed for currently active plans as well as historical plans so users can compare year-to-year or seasonto-season performance. To view your reports, you can either: Click on Planner Reports at the bottom of the Planner section. Click on Planner Reports in the Plan Wizard either from the main menu (Plan > Plan Wizard) or the Getting Started Wizard Planning and Scheduling. Click on the Reports button on the Navigation Panel and go to the Planner section. The reports displayed here will have displays for all of your irrigation sets that have active plans only. If navigating to the Planner Reports from the Planner or the Planning Wizard, click on the irrigation set for which you want to view a specific report or chart. Then click on the name of the report or chart on the Plan Reports form and it will appear in the work space. Note that you can select to view the report for any active or inactive plans for the selected irrigation set. In some reports, you will also be asked to select which plan target you wanted to see in the report. When ready to see a report, click on View Report in the upper right hand corner of the page. As with any other reports, these can be saved, printed, exported to Excel or other file formats, or copy and pasted into other applications. Controls for the reports appear in the menu of the work space display area. The reports and charts included in the Planner are as follows: Accumulated Targets Chart which tracks those targets graphically that you want to accumulate over a crop planning period such as applied water, ET, and GDD; Plan Water Budget Table provides a tabular report of plan target values, actual values achieved, and the fraction of plan value achieved. Overall Snapshot Chart this is a high level chart of the fraction of plan targets over the course of the planning period achieved by the actual data collected to date for the irrigation set. Users can click on any result in this chart (bar chart) and the Fraction of Plan Targets Chart will open to provide you with more details. Fraction of Plan Targets Chart this chart displays the fraction of the plan target achieved in each crop stage for all plan targets for the planning period. Stage Performance Table this is a tabular report that provides for each plan stage the plan target, actual performance achieved, and the fraction of the plan target achieved by the actual performance. Plan versus Actual Stage Chart this chart displays side-by-side bars of the plan target value for each crop stage against the actual result achieved in each stage of the plan PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 25

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27 Scheduler This section will help you use the PureSense Scheduler to set up, create, publish, and track your irrigation schedule for your irrigation sets. Get Started with the Scheduler by defining your irrigation operation, namely, identifying a group of irrigation sets and the users that are involved in operating those sets that you typically work on together when you schedule your irrigation events. You can also set preferences on your irrigation event start times and typical duration (in hours) of your events. Schedule Your Irrigation Events describes the steps a user will take to edit or create a new schedule for their irrigation sets. Publish your irrigation schedule to both save your work and deliver your schedules to your team. Track your irrigation performance 24x7 when using the Scheduler as the hours scheduled versus those actually performed in the field are charted week by week. The Scheduler can be used for scheduling any irrigation sets or fields that you operate. Build out your irrigation operation into PureSense Irrigation Manager, and make scheduling as easy as 1, 2, 3! Get Started You can access the Irrigation Manager Scheduler either by clicking on the Scheduler button on the Navigation Panel, launching the Scheduler from the Get Started Wizard, or using the Scheduler menu item. When the main page of the Scheduler opens, it provides you with a hint to see your irrigation activity and schedule your irrigation operation by clicking on either a defined irrigation operation or start by building a new operation. If you select to view the Scheduler by Irrigation Set, you can view the irrigation history and scheduled events for that irrigation set. You can also see when your last irrigation even was scheduled and by clicking on the schedule button in the work space, you can create or edit the schedule for that irrigation set. The Scheduler will open the Irrigation Operation in which the selected irrigation belongs and you will be able to schedule all of the irrigation sets in that operation. If you use the Scheduler on the main menu, you will have the option to manage your Irrigation Operations where you can define groups of irrigation sets and those users responsible for their irrigation operation. Just select a scheduling operation and click on the Schedule button at the top of the form to begin scheduling for that operation. Define a Scheduling Operation To begin scheduling your irrigation operation, click on the Scheduler button on the navigation panel. The Scheduler will open with a current view of your Irrigation Operations listed in the panel on the left of your screen. If you have yet to define an Irrigation Operation, then click on the New button down below. An Irrigation Operation form will pop up for you. Simple complete the following steps to build an Irrigation Operation: 2011 PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 27

28 Name the Operation so you can refer to it later on Click the + sign for the Irrigation Sets to add those irrigation sets that you want to schedule together as an Irrigation Operation. This should be all of the sets that are either managed by the same team of people or are commonly grouped when you do your scheduling today. Click the + sign for the Irrigation Managers to add all of the users that you want to routinely receive irrigation schedules and reports on those schedules. Set your scheduling preferences (defaults) by selecting the time of day that your irrigation events typically start and the duration of irrigation events that you typically operate. These defaults help make your scheduling process easier. When done completing the form on Irrigation Operation, click Save to save your irrigation operation. Once you ve saved your irrigation operation, you can see its name appear in the navigation panel and by clicking on the operation s name. The Scheduler summary panel appears, indicating: The last date through which schedules have been published; The irrigation sets included in the operation; The Irrigation Managers included in received published schedules; and A series of charts for the irrigation sets showing the hours scheduled and actual hours (if any) for the selected week. Schedule Your Irrigation Sets To Schedule your irrigation sets, go to the Scheduler page for your Irrigation Operation and click on Schedule at the top of the page. A pop up series of forms appear to help you build and publish your irrigation schedule for the selected week. To begin, you select which irrigation sets and their associated irrigation methods and filter stations that you want to schedule. In this form, you can edit the crop coefficient or any adjustment factors you want to use in forecasting your irrigation requirements in your Irrigation Plan. Any changes made to the crop coefficients or adjustment factors will apply for the week being scheduled only. Click Next to continue to schedule the selected irrigation sets or Save and Close to save your information for now, so it will be available when you are ready to complete your schedule. By clicking Next, you are brought the Schedule page where you can schedule the specific hours of irrigation, start and stop time, and operational pulse cycles for your irrigation sets. The irrigation Schedule page is organized in four sections: Irrigation Method. For each irrigation Set, an irrigation method is identified per your earlier selection. Scheduling Forecast. The forecast of applied water and hours of irrigation required for the week to be scheduled is shown on the basis your Irrigation Plan. Daily Schedule. On the day you want to schedule irrigation for a set and method, double click on the 0 and complete the scheduling form. You can alter the start time and the duration to match your needs PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 28

29 Schedule Summary. After you have scheduled each set, the total hours and applied water scheduled follows the week of daily entries. If you want to check on your soil moisture status while deciding what irrigation hours to schedule, just click on the icon to the left of the ET Inches and a summary chart of your scheduled and actual irrigation events for the week appears as well as your soil moisture SUM conditions. Just click on the buttons for the previous or next week to scroll through your soil moisture and irrigation history. If more information is needed, just click on Show Full Reading Chart to open the regular soil moisture readings chart. When you have completed your schedule, select Next to publish the week schedule. The only fields on the Schedule form that you can edit are the daily scheduled hours all others are information provided to you by the PureSense Irrigation Manager. If you need to stop working on your irrigation schedule or get interrupted Publish your schedule to retain the work that you have done to that point. Otherwise, your inputs will be lost. Publish Your Irrigation Schedule To publish your irrigation schedule, click Next from the Schedule. The Publish page appears and you will see both a list of all users that will receive a notification of the newly published schedule and a summary of the schedule of irrigation events. The published irrigation schedule provides information to you and your team of users by: The scheduled hours of irrigation appear in your Irrigation Operations view for the week; Two versions of the weekly Scheduling Work Order is available to be either printed or delivered by using a subscription service: Weekly Summary Work Order. This work order totals the hours scheduled each day for each irrigation set in the irrigation operation. For each irrigation set (row in the table), a notes field is available, and at the bottom of the work order Field Managers and operators can put instructions and notes for others about events that occurred that week. Day by Day Detailed Work Order. This work order details each irrigation event scheduled by day of the week, including the start time, end time, the hours on and off if pulse irrigation is to be applied, total event duration and irrigation hours. Again, space for notes on the work order form is available beside each irrigation event and at the bottom of the weekly report. The Status Hover panel that appears on the Live View for your irrigation sets will indicate the up-coming scheduled event(s) and track the total irrigation hours to date that week against those scheduled for the week. Track Your Irrigation Operation Your irrigation operations automatically track your irrigation operation in comparison to the scheduled events when a field monitoring station (FMS) is associated with an irrigation set. So, if you view your Irrigation Operation from the Scheduler, your scheduled and actual irrigation information will appear for each irrigation set included in the operation. Likewise, you can scroll through all of your irrigation sets by changing the Scheduler s current view to irrigation sets and clicking on each set in turn PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 29

30 While in the Live View, the status report for irrigation sets displays the total hours of actual irrigation and applied water in inches that has occurred that week in comparison to the scheduled hours and inches of applied water. A panel at the bottom of the status report displays the schedule of irrigation events to take place that week for the irrigation set. One exception to this is those irrigation sets that use Flood irrigation only. At this time, the Irrigation Manager application does not have a way to track actual flood irrigation events, so only your scheduled events will appear PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 30

31 Calendar The field Calendar in Irrigation Manager helps users track field events, irrigation schedules and plan activities in a calendar view. Users can open a Calendar by either: Launching the Calendar from the Get Started Wizard, Clicking on Calendar in the left-hand side navigational panel, or Clicking on Calendar in the main menu. Select the irrigation set and the Calendar for the field appears. Set Display Preferences Users can change the appearance of the Calendar by toggling on or off displays of events, plan stages, and irrigation events. Users can also edit any event in the Calendar directly so as to change the color display of the event. The display of plan stages and scheduled irrigation events must be modified in the Planner and Scheduler, respectively. Users can choose to view the Calendar in a Month, Week, Day or Year view. By scrolling up and down, you can access other time periods of the Calendar. Using the Quick View calendars, you can also navigate quickly to other time periods forward or back. By clicking on the Quick View calendars (upper left hand side of the Calendar work area), the Calendar display moves automatically to the selected date. A summary of up-coming events is also provided to the left of the Calendar display. Users can see at a glance those events that are important to the selected field s operation in the upcoming events panel. Manage Field Events All events for an irrigation set s Calendar can be viewed by clicking on the Events button located in the lower left hand corner of the work area. Users can use this display form to add new events to the Calendar or delete those events as needed. Users can also create new Field Events by clicking on the New Events button on the bottom lower left area of the Calendar work area. A new event form opens and a user can name the event, select the dates and times for the event s duration, and write notes about the event being scheduled. Users can also set the color that they want the event to have when displayed on the Calendar. Click on Save to have the event saved to the Calendar and be added to the list of your field events. All field events for a given irrigation set will not only appear in the calendar, but will also be available for viewing in the Reading Chart for the monitoring station assigned to the irrigation set. So now you will be able to see field activities while tracking the moisture and weather conditions for your fields PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 31

32 Reports The Irrigation Manager application has expanded its reporting feature to include new reports on your irrigation operation, planning performance, and monitoring conditions important to your everyday activities. You can now access your reports by: Launching View Reports from the Get Started Wizard, Clicking on Reports in the navigation panel, or Clicking on the Reports tab in the main menu. Reports are grouped by topic of interest and then individual reports can be accessed by simply navigating from the topic to the specific report you want to view. When viewing reports from the reports section of the navigation panel, your reports will appear in the work area to the right of the navigation panel. By opening a report from the main menu, they will appear in a new pop up window. So, you can have multiple reports open at once by using the menu as well as by navigating to reports of interest in the navigation panel. All reports can be saved, printed, exported to Excel or other formats, or copy and pasted into other applications using the control menu at the top of the report display. Set up a Report Subscription by contacting your PureSense Account Manager and your favorite reports can be automatically delivered to your smart phone or when you want it. Irrigation Management Forecasts > ET Scheduling Report The ET Scheduling report is a new report in Irrigation Manager that will assist the grower in scheduling irrigations using the ET data from their local PureSense weather station. The report can be found in the Reports tab/menu under Irrigation Management > Forecasts. This report will be a valuable tool for growers who are currently scheduling irrigations using ET. With this approach, growers are looking to determine how much water needs to be applied in order to meet the cropʼs demand over the past so many days. For some growers it may be a single day or just a few, whereas for others, it may be a week or more. The report parameters are flexible and will allow the grower to specify the number of days that they d like to run the report for. In addition, the user will be able to simply plug in a Kc factor to be used when calculating ETc. Finally, by manipulating the report parameters, the growers will be able to run the report for all sets within a particular Zone or Sub Zone or run for an individual Irrigation Set. The ET data for the report comes solely from a local PureSense weather station. It will either come from the Weather Station that is directly linked to the Irrigation Set or indirectly related via the Related Weather Station feature. If an Irrigation Set is not somehow related to a Weather Station it will not show up on the report. Key Benefits: User supplied Kc 2011 PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 32

33 ETo data from Weather Station or Related Weather Station Flexible report parameters subscription Report Parameters - Zone List of all Zones in customer account. The default value is All Zones. - Sub Zone List of all Sub Zones in customer account or limited to Sub Zones in the currently selected Zone. The default value is All Sub Zones - Irrigation Set List of all Irrigation Sets in customer account or limited to Irrigation Sets in the currently selected Zone or Sub Zone. The default value is All Irrigation Sets. - Kc The Crop Coefficient used for calculating ETc. This Kc value will apply to all Irrigation Sets in the report. The default value is 1. - Days The number of days that the report will look back from the End Date. For example, if set to 3 the report will display ET values for a three day period. The default value is 7. - End Date The ET values will be calculated up to this date for the number of days specified. For example, if days is set to 2 and the End Date is today, the report will calculated ET for yesterday and the day before. The default value is today s date PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 33

34 Report Sample Report Columns - Irrigation Set Name of the Irrigation Set. If the weather data for the Irrigation Set comes from a Related Weather Station an asterisk (*) will be displayed next to the Irrigation Set name. - Acres The size of the Irrigation Set in Acres. - Irrigation System The name of the Irrigation System for the Irrigation Set. One row will be displayed for each Irrigation System related to the Irrigation Set. - Flow The Flow that has been calculated for the Irrigation System in gallons per minute (GPM). - ETo The ETo from the PureSense weather station for the specified time period. Units are inches. - Kc The Kc factor specified in the parameters section. - ETc The calculated ETc value. ETc is equal to ETo * Kc. Units are inches PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 34

35 - DU The Distribution Uniformity for the system. This value comes from the System Uniformity field in the Irrigation System screen and describes the uniformity of water distribution across the field. A uniformity of 1 would be perfect uniformity. - Gross Inches The amount of water that will need to be applied by the Irrigation System to ensure that at least the ETc amount is applied to all parts of the field. Gross Inches is equal to ETc / DU. - Hours The number of Hours that the Irrigation System will need to be run to put an amount of water equal to Gross Inches. Gross Inches is equal to ((Acres*43560)*Gross Inches)/(Flow*96.3). Technical Notes This report requires that Irrigation Sets and Irrigation Systems be fully built out in order to work correctly. The report requires that the following items be built out and related: - Weather Station (or Related Weather Station for SMP sites) - Irrigation Set (with Acres and Primary Monitoring Station) - Irrigation System (with Flow) If an Irrigation Set does not show up on the report, it is because it does not have an Irrigation System or it is not related to a PureSense Weather Station either as the Primary Monitoring Station for the Irrigation Set or as the Related Weather Station to a Soil Moisture Station that is configured as the Primary Monitoring Station for the Irrigation Set PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 35

36 Operations Water Budget Report. This report is produced for all irrigation sets that have been defined with their crop type, irrigation method, and the key data for the irrigation method so the system can calculate application rate for the method. This report shows each week of the year from the beginning to the following week from the time opened, so by the end of the year, represents a full annual report of all water budget information. Irrigator s Report Table. This report summarizes the irrigation hours and applied water for each irrigation set for the selected time period using the selected resolution level. Applied Water Chart. This report plots the accumulated ET values for the ETo and Etc values together with the accumulated applied water for each irrigation set. Operations History Table. This reports provides a total of the irrigation hours measured by each monitoring station to the selected time period of the report. Schedules Schedule Summary Table. This report summarizes for each week the scheduled irrigation events for all of your irrigation operations. For this report to be generated, you must have your irrigation sets defined (location, irrigation method and crop type), as well as have scheduled irrigation events using the Irrigation Manager Scheduler feature. Monitoring Reports Weather Table. This report provides users with a summary of the weather conditions for the previous day. Powdery Mildew Risk Index Table. This report provides the Gubler-Thomas Powdery Mildew Risk Index level for the past three (3) days for all of your ambient and below canopy temperature sensors. The report can be expanded so you can see up to 10 days of history of your risk index. Moisture Trend Table. This report details the changes in moisture conditions through your soil profile over the past several (4) weeks. The soil moisture levels are turned blue when a value exceeds your upper boundary for the week, and turns red when the value exceeds your lower boundary for the week. The field monitoring station must be associated with a set that has a crop type and irrigation method defined for the report to generate. Bee Flight Hours Chart. The daily and accumulated bee flight hours are tracked based on user settings for this report. Users can set their preferred temperature threshold (default = 50 o F), wind speed (default = 10 mph), and rainfall condition (default = none) for which bee flight hours are identified and tracked. Plan Reports Reports that include both charts and tables that describe performance in meeting irrigation plan targets are available much like those in the Tracker section of the Planner. When accessed from the Reports section of Irrigation Manager, 2011 PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 36

37 though, these reports and charts are produced for all irrigation sets rather than for a selected irrigation set. The reports included in the Plan reports are: Accumulated Targets Chart which tracks those targets graphically that you want to accumulate over a crop planning period such as applied water, ET, and GDD; Plan Water Budget Table provides a tabular report of plan target values, actual values achieved, and the fraction of plan value achieved. Overall Snapshot Chart this is a high level chart of the fraction of plan targets over the course of the planning period achieved by the actual data collected to date for the irrigation set. Users can click on any result in this chart (bar chart) and the Fraction of Plan Targets Chart will open to provide you with more details. Fraction of Plan Targets Chart this chart displays the fraction of the plan target achieved in each crop stage for all plan targets for the planning period. Stage Performance Table this is a tabular report that provides for each plan stage the plan target, actual performance achieved, and the fraction of the plan target achieved by the actual performance. Plan versus Actual Stage Chart this chart displays side-by-side bars of the plan target value for each crop stage against the actual result achieved in each stage of the plan. Scheduling Work Order Reports In addition to the reports provided in the drop-down Reports menu, work order reports are available from the Scheduler, and can be accessed either when publishing a new schedule or from the Scheduler menu item. There are two types of work order reports available for your use. Weekly Summary Work Order. This style of report provides the total hours scheduled for each irrigation event but does not indicate such details as start and stop times and pulse operations. Day by Day Detail Work Order. This style of report lists each irrigation event by day of the week, and specifies such details as the start time, estimated end time, hours of irrigation, total event duration, and the on/off hour sequence for any pulse operation. Report Subscriptions PureSense Account Managers can help you receive your favorite reports in your or on your smart phone automatically on the days and times when you want to see them. Contact PureSense to set up a Report Subscription and have your reports delivered to you automatically. You can set up as many Report Subscriptions as you like and you can have the reports sent to several people simultaneously PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 37

38 Exporting Data Using the Readings Table The Readings Table allows you to download raw readings from sensors in several useful formats, allowing you to publish or run calculations not available in the standard Reports or Charts. The table will display all readings that are communicated from the sensors installed at the selected site. File Formats available: Export to Excel (requires Microsoft Excel) Export to Word (requires Microsoft Word) Export to Web Browser (creates an HTML file) Walkthrough 1. In Irrigation Manager, pull down the Tools menu and select the Readings Table tool. (continued on next page) 2011 PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 38

39 2. Use the Site pull down menu to select a monitoring site, or leave it unchanged to view the readings from the currently selected site. 3. In the Date Filter, choose a Start and End date range. Click in the date/time fields to choose from a pop-up calendar. 4. Use the Aggregate By pull down menu to select how the readings will be averaged: None = Each row in the table represents a reading taken every 15 minutes. Hour = Each row represents an average of the readings taken within the hour. Day = Each row represents an average of the readings taken within the day, between 12:00am and 11:59pm. 5. Click the Apply Filter button to refresh the readings table with the new filter settings. 6. Use the Export to Excel, Export to Word, or Export to Browser button to export the readings to a new document PureSense Environmental, all rights reserved Page 39