On September 20, 2024, an Associated Unit (AU) of R+D+i of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) has been created with the Desertification Research Centre (CIDE), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the University of Valencia (UV) and the Generalitat Valenciana (GVA). The aim of this Unit is to strengthen synergies that will allow progress in scientific-technical knowledge on a more efficient and sustainable management of crops in general, and irrigation water in particular, in a scenario of global change. At the same time, it seeks to promote the transfer of knowledge to the productive sector.
The UCLM, through three research groups: “Remote Sensing and GIS”, “Agronomy and Water Engineering”, and “Agroforestry Precision and Cartography” and the CIDE, through two research groups: “Water and Crops” and “Remote Sensing and Global Change”, have collaborated in numerous research projects with the main objective of improving water use efficiency and sustainable water management in agriculture in areas with limited water resources.
The CIDE research staff collaborating with the Associated Unit is formed by: Ramón López Urrea as responsible researcher and Diego Sebastiano Intrigliolo Molina and Aleixandre Verger Ten as participating researchers.
Researchers from both institutions make up a multidisciplinary group (agronomic engineering, physical sciences, biology, etc.). ) that allow addressing the problem of water scarcity and the need to make a more sustainable use of water, through different academic disciplines, such as: Atmospheric Sciences (determination of Evapotranspiration), Meteorology (Agrometeorology and Micro-meteorology), Biology (Ecophysiology of plants), Mathematics (modeling and optimization), Economics (profitability of farms), Engineering (design and management of irrigation systems) and Physics (Remote Sensing). The research of all the groups involved is aligned with the regional, national and European R&D&I smart research elements, which underpin sustainability and climate change strategies or the incorporation of digitalization in an economic sector as relevant as agriculture.
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