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Simulation Modeling Lecture-1

The document outlines the steps in modeling agricultural systems, emphasizing the need for a strong knowledge base across various disciplines to define goals and system boundaries. It details the identification of key variables, including state, rate, driving, and auxiliary variables, and the importance of quantifying relationships among them. Finally, it highlights the necessity of calibration and validation of the model using experimental data.

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Simulation Modeling Lecture-1

The document outlines the steps in modeling agricultural systems, emphasizing the need for a strong knowledge base across various disciplines to define goals and system boundaries. It details the identification of key variables, including state, rate, driving, and auxiliary variables, and the importance of quantifying relationships among them. Finally, it highlights the necessity of calibration and validation of the model using experimental data.

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Steps in modeling

Define goals: Agricultural system is complex comprising of


various disciplines. In order to develop or understand a crop
model one requires strong knowledge base of different subjects.
Depending upon the objective of study, knowledge base of differ
ent disciplines is integrated to develop a crop model.

Define system and its boundaries: In agriculture, crop field is


chosen as a system.
Define key variables in system: Variables include state, rate,
driving and auxillary variables. State variables are those which
can be measured or quantified, e.g. soil moisture content, crop
yield etc. Rate variables are the rates of different processes
operating in a system, e.g. photosynthesis rate, transpiration rate.
Driving variables are the variables which are not part of the
system but the affect the system, e.g. sunshine, rainfall.
Supplementary variables are the intermediated products, e.g. dry
matter partitioning, water stress etc. These variables are identified
in the crop field. After identification of these variables
relationship among different variables is determined. This helps
in better understanding of the whole process.
Quantify relationships: Once the relationship is established
it is then quantifies using different mathematical equations and
functions.

Calibration/Validation: When the model is developed, it


requires calibration and validation. First the model is run with an
experimental data set and calibrated accordingly. Calibration is
done by the trial and error method. Calibrated model is then
validated with another experiment
Types of models in agriculture

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