Browsing Technical and Special Reports by Author "Fipps, Guy"
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Karimov, Askar; Leigh, Eric; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2009-07)Since 1999, seven (7) irrigation districts in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas have installed six (6) different types of synthetic canal lining materials, totaling approximately 21 miles. In 2005, we began a program ...
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Bonaiti, Gabriele; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2014-09)Since 1999, nine (9) irrigation districts in the Hidalgo, Cameron, Willacy and Maverick Counties have installed ten (10) different types of synthetic canal lining materials, totaling approximately 25 miles. In 2005, we ...
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Bonaiti, Gabriele; Karimov, Askar; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-11)
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Swanson, Charles; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2009-07)
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Swanson, Charles; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-12-19)A smart controller testing facility was established by the Irrigation Technology Center at Texas A&M University in College Station in 2008 in order to evaluate their performance from an “enduser” point of view. The “end-user” ...
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Swanson, Charles; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2014-11)A smart controller testing facility was established at Texas A&M University in College Station in 2008 in order to evaluate their performance from an “end-user” point of view. The “end-user” is considered to be the landscape ...
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Falkner, Brock; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-04)The Bureau of Reclamation requested recommendations on flow rates and capacity requirements of new farm turnouts in Cameron County Irrigation District No. 2. These outlets are being designed as part of a rehabilitation ...
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Leigh, Eric; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-04)Cameron County Irrigation District No. 2 (CCID2) contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation to complete a project plan for rehabilitation of a portion of the district as shown on the right. The district plans on replacing ...
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Leigh, Eric; Henry, Milton; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-04)Extension Agricultural Engineering investigated the flume and flow measurement problem of Richmond Irrigation District. At normal operating conditions, the existing flume is over 90% submerged which makes it inaccurate for ...
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Swanson, Charles; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2010-04)A smart controller testing facility was established by the Irrigation Technology Center at Texas A&M University in College Station in 2008. A two-year testing program was initiated in order to evaluate smart controller ...
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Flahive, David; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-04)
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Huang, Yanbo; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-04)This report summarizes our evaluation of the potential of Landsat satellite multi-spectral land cover imagery for GIS-based urbanization analysis in irrigation districts. Three image scenes of ETM+ (2003) and TM (1993) ...
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Leigh, Eric; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-04)This report summarizes the results of seepage loss rate tests conducted in La Feria Irrigation District Cameron County Irrigation District No. 3 (La Feria). These tests were conducted during April 9 - 11, 2003 on Canal 6.0.
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Leigh, Eric; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-04)
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Leigh, Eric; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-04)Seepage and loss rate tests were conducted in Hidalgo County Irrigation District No. 2 (HCID2) on four segments of Lateral A during September 2002 and January 2003. Table 1 summarizes the results of this study. Also given ...
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Leigh, Eric; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2008-11)
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Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2001-08-01)This report was completed for the Senate Bill 1 Rio Grande Regional Water Planning Project (Region M) by the District Management System (DMS) team under the direction of Dr. Guy Fipps. Funding was provided through the Texas ...
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Leigh, Eric; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-04)This report summarizes seepage loss tests conducted in Cameron County Irrigation District No. 2 (CCID2) on five canal segments located as shown on the right.
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Huang, Yanbo; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2008-11)This report summarizes our initial analysis of the potential of thermal imaging for detecting leaking canals and pipelines. Thermal imagery (video format) was obtained during a fly over of a portion of the main canal of ...
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Flahive, David; Fipps, Guy (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-04)With only a few exceptions, irrigation districts in the Texas border region have old, outdated database systems that need to be replaced. These old databases are costly to maintain, make accessing and analyzing data ...