Expert System as an Artificial Intelligence for Controlling Degradation of Heavy Clay Soils in Egypt
In Egypt, the increasing demand for food production requires reclamation and cultivation of more agricultural areas. More attention should be given to increase the productivity of degraded heavy clay salt affected soils since they are potentially productive and require less investment, effort and time for restoring their productivity in comparison with the others new lands. At present heavy clay areas are either of poor or of low quality mainly due to occurrence and development of salinity and sodicity problems, which hinder realization of the fruitful results of any agricultural inputs. The management of degraded problematic heavy clay areas is a multi-disciplinary strategy and joint efforts between key persons who involved in this process. The transfer of the knowledge from consultants & scientists to landowners and farmers represents the bottleneck for the development of degraded heavy clay soil on the national level. Therefore, there is a need for an unconventional method to collect and transfer the knowledge and expertise in the degraded problematic heavy clay management domain to the general responsible persons who involved in this process. It promise great prospects for application and great economic value to adopt Expert System (ES) as artificial intelligence and a management tool in accordance with the research results achieved by the degraded problematic heavy clay soil ameliorating experts and their successful experiences. Therefore, a user-friendly expert system computer program was developed for management of degraded problematic heavy clay soils. The developed Heavy Clay Management Expert System (HCMEXS) can help users to make appropriate decisions on management and controlling degraded heavy clay soil so that the goal of improvement of this soil can be achieved, it also helps farmer to make correct decisions on agricultural practice.
Expert System Artificial Intelligence Heavy Clay Soils Expertise HCMEXS
Gehan A.H.Sallam
Drainage Research Institute (DRI), National Water Research Center (NWRC) Delta Barrages (El Kanater), P.O Box 1362/5, Cairo Egypt
国际会议
西安
英文
1104-1108
2010-10-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）