TY - JOUR
T1 - Soil moisture Fuzzy Estimation Approach based on Decision-Making
AU - Flores-Carrillo, Diego Alberto
AU - Sánchez-Fernández, Luis Pastor
AU - Sánchez-Pérez, Luis Alejandro
AU - Carbajal-Hernández, José Juan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper presents a Fuzzy Estimation Approach based on Decision Making (FEADM) to estimate point soil moisture, in order to develop a regional soil moisture estimate. This keeps the advantages of an automatic irrigation system but avoiding their operational complexity. In the FEADM 's first stage, the Fuzzy Analytical Process weigh five fuzzified environmental inputs used as assessment criteria. These criteria are used by a selective assessment stage, where only the relevant criteria for each alternative are assessed. As result, the best assessments of each alternative and the best assessed alternative are obtained. In the second stage, an output membership function is assigned to every alternative for its forward aggregation and defuzzification. This process reaches a soil moisture estimate. Unlike other models, FEADM allows estimating a quantitative value from a decision making process. Furthermore, its computational cost is lower than conventional fuzzy estimation models due to the selective assessment.
AB - This paper presents a Fuzzy Estimation Approach based on Decision Making (FEADM) to estimate point soil moisture, in order to develop a regional soil moisture estimate. This keeps the advantages of an automatic irrigation system but avoiding their operational complexity. In the FEADM 's first stage, the Fuzzy Analytical Process weigh five fuzzified environmental inputs used as assessment criteria. These criteria are used by a selective assessment stage, where only the relevant criteria for each alternative are assessed. As result, the best assessments of each alternative and the best assessed alternative are obtained. In the second stage, an output membership function is assigned to every alternative for its forward aggregation and defuzzification. This process reaches a soil moisture estimate. Unlike other models, FEADM allows estimating a quantitative value from a decision making process. Furthermore, its computational cost is lower than conventional fuzzy estimation models due to the selective assessment.
KW - Decision making
KW - Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process
KW - Fuzzy estimation
KW - Soil moisture estimate
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U2 - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.01.018
DO - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.01.018
M3 - Artículo
SN - 1364-8152
VL - 91
SP - 223
EP - 240
JO - Environmental Modelling and Software
JF - Environmental Modelling and Software
ER -