Modelling agriculture to support regional water management
构建了一个决策支持系统，通过农业建模和优化模型OPTAG，识别区域未来可能的水资源状态，帮助协调农业、环境和公共供水等用户之间的用水冲突。
Users of groundwater and surface water in a region often have conflicting requirements concerning availability and quality of this water. To support regional water management a decision support system has been formulated. Modelling agriculture within this system involves a qualitative description of processes at farm level, whilst also taking into account hydrological conditions. An aggregated and simplified version of this model (OPTAG) is used to identify by optimisation possible future states of the region. The usability of the optimisation model is demonstrated by results from a test region where agriculture, environment, and public water supply are the relevant users.