Assessment of the performance of border and furrow irrigation systems and the relationship between performance indicators and system variables

Performance terms measure how close an irrigation event is to an ideal one. For border and furrow irrigation to facilitate quantification of the perfo rmance terms use was made of the software tools BORDEV and FURDEV. Once det ermined, the values of the performance indices were plotted as a function o f the system variables. In conclusion, it can be stated that the relationsh ip between the performance indices and the system variable contains valuabl e information for the system design and management. (C) 1999 Elsevier Scien ce B.V. All rights reserved.