Finding the potentials of sprinkler irrigation using Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process method in South Khorasan Province

Increasing the efficiency of water consumption and the importance of highly productivity of water consumption in agricultural sectore led to development of Pressurized irrigation methods and made it as one of the most important options in election of irrigation methods. Of course, election of irrigation methods including Pressurized systems for each plan should be in a way to increase the efficiency of water consumption and complete adoption with the regional conditions, it minimizes the operation and maintenance costs. So, this research tends to find suitable places to implement sprinkler irrigation considering climatic conditions, quality and quantity of groundwater resources, topographical status and soil profil using FAHP method in South Khorasan Province. To do this, the mentioned parameters are zonation and turned into fuzzy mode using GIS software. Finally, using Fuzzy Algebraic Sum Operator, all the maps were mixed and the final map was created to find potentials for sprinkler irrigation. According to this map, considering the high speed of wind in region, only 15% have the possibility to perform such systems and 10% of the province regions would be suitable in case of receiving low potential facilities to implement sprinkler irrigation and the rest of it has more capability and in some areas, implementation of such systems is not recommended.