ON SYSTEM APPROACH TO SOFTWARE PACKAGE DEVELOPMENT FOR SUPPORT OF WATER INTAKE STRUCTURES DESIGN OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS

Abstract

The aim of the research was the study of the irrigation systems and their elements design features using information technology support and the development of scientific-technical and methodological approaches to their creation and application. Material and Methods. Typical design solutions for water intake structures of irrigation systems were used as the starting material for research. Results. The conclusion on feasibility of their implementation using the means of information-technological support for design goals is drawn. The structure of the software package “Design of water intake structures of irrigation systems” was developed. It included special blocks: the formation of the initial data, the selection of typical design solutions, binding to the object, calculations, documents. In addition, a number of system and service blocks: dictionaries and reference books, archives, files, help was included. The conclusion is made that the package effective operation depends largely not only on quality of solving their own special problems of designing water intake structures, but also on the results of solving other problems contained in the tasks of other participants of reclamation complex. Therefore, the need to apply a systematic approach to solving this problem was formulated. The main positions of this approach include the need to use common databases, dictionaries, reference books, terms, software interfaces, etc. Hence, additional information technology resources ensuring its implementation were included in the structure of the software package. Conclusion. The proposed structure of the program complex for designing water intake structures, as well as the requirements for its blocks, can be used as a methodological basis for the development of other software systems implemented in the framework of solving the problems of creating “digital” land reclamation.

Keywords

• irrigation systems
• “digital” land reclamation
• water intake facilities
• design
• means of information technology support
• system approach