ABSTRACT
According to the ASAE Standards [1], subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) is “the application of water below the soil surface though emitterswith discharge rates generally in the same range as drip irrigation.” Thus, aside from the specific details pointed out in this chapter, an SDI unit is simply a micro irrigation network buried at a certain depth. In this chapter, the word emitter is used instead of dripper since the dripper has a lack of meaning, and water does not drip in SDI as it does in drip irrigation.
