PROSPECTS FOR DATA COLLECTION ON IRRIGATION WATER QUALITY FOR THE FORMATION OF INTERACTIVE GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION IRRIGATION MAPS
Purpose: to substantiate the list of necessary water quality indicators for irrigation systems, to develop a form for data collection on water quality indicators and their use in the development of interactive maps based on geographic information technologies (GIS). Materials and Methods: regulatory documents, data from reports of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Russian Scientific Research Institute of Land Improvement Problems”, open sources on the Internet, scientific and technical literature were used for the research. The research methods were data collection, processing, analysis and synthesis. Results: analysis of open information sources made it possible to substantiate the list of water quality indicators; for data collection from federal state budgetary institutions (land reclamation and agricultural water supply departments), a form and recommendations for filling it out were developed, indicating the documents used to fill it out; the estimated volume of financial costs for conducting water analyzes was calculated according to the recommended list of indicators, which is 55125600 rubles for 669 federal-owned irrigation systems; it is proposed to use the collected data for the development of interactive GIS maps. Conclusions. The developed interactive maps displaying various indicators of water quality in irrigation systems can be effectively applied in the management process, as well as they can improve the efficiency and performance of justified decision-making. In the course of further prospective development of GIS, the integration of interactive maps of reclamation systems with other automated systems, such as SCADA, may be envisaged.