The research activities of SWRI cover the following topics:
Water
- Design of irrigation and drainage networks
- Irrigation technologies, irrigation water management and optimization
- Hydrodynamics of hydraulic structures
- Surface hydrology at basin and field scale
- Flood analysis and erosion
- Groundwater hydrology
- Develop and optimize artificial groundwater recharge systems
- Geothermal energy and heat pumps research and applications
- Hydrogeochemistry
- Advanced monitoring systems in water resources
- Climatology, agrometeorology and climate change
- Ecological indicators and characterization of freshwater bodies
- Freshwater ecosystems’ services
Soil and plant
- Soil physics and chemistry
- Soil microbiology, enzymes and nymatodes
- Pedology, soil classification, land evaluation, soil mapping
- Assessment of soil pollution and land degradation (erosion, desertification, degradation of organic matter, salinization, alkalization, decline of biodiversity) and remediation
- Biochemical cycles in agricultural, forest and aquatic ecosystems
- Soil fertility and plant nutrition (including modeling fertilization requirements for more than 60 crops)
- Stress effects of abiotic environmental factors on plant physiology
Municipal and agricultural wastes
- Solid and liquid waste analysis
- Natural systems for waste water treatment
- Reclaimed water and waste application and management in agriculture
- Biotechnological approaches for waste valorization
- Bioenergy and bio-based products generation from agro-industrial wastes
- Use of wastes through circular economy practices in agriculture
Agricultural Engineering and new technologies in agriculture
- Geographical Information Systems, geostatistics and geodatabases
- Remote Sensing and Precision Agriculture technologies
- Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability analysis
- Controlled environment agriculture
- Agricultural mechanization
Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) in agriculture
- Smart agriculture,
- IoT applications,
- wireless sensor networks,
- farmbots,
- autonomous vehicles,
- artificial intelligence systems,
- machine learning,
- mobile applications,
- image-based detection technologies