{"id":975,"date":"2025-11-18T20:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/els-journal.net\/wp\/about\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T20:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:30:38","slug":"29204-a-gcn-attention-model-for-precision-irrigation-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/els-journal.net\/wp\/?page_id=975","title":{"rendered":"29204 A GCN-Attention Model for Precision Irrigation Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<h3>Vol. 29, No. 2 &#8211; December 2025<\/h3>\n<h3>A GCN-Attention Model for Precision Irrigation Evaluation<\/h3>\n<h5>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53314\/ELS2529070H<\/h5>\n<h5>Ying Huang and Meng Liu<\/h5>\n<h5><b>Abstract<\/b><\/h5>\n<h5>The challenges of traditional quantitative irrigation&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">methods cannot adapt to the dynamic actual soil moisture content&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">and meteorological changes, and the existing methods based on&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">soil moisture thresholds cannot fully solve the problems of hysteresis&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">and adaptability, lack comprehensive consideration of meteorological&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">factors and growth dynamics, and fail to consider the&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">subtle sensitivity to soil moisture changes and processing efficiency&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">limitations. To address the above challenges, we propose UFOGCN-<\/span><\/h5><h5>SPANet, a novel and computationally efficient architecture&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">specifically designed for resource-constrained precision agriculture.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Its core innovation lies in the cascaded integration of: (1) a&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">linear-complexity Unit Force Operated Vision Transformer (UFOViT)&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">that replaces quadratic self-attention with matrix associativity&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">and cross-normalization for efficient global spatio-temporal&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">feature extraction; (2) Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) for&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">modeling spatial dependencies; and (3) a Salient Positions-based&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Attention Network (SPANet) employing a novel Significant Position&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Selection (SPS) algorithm to dynamically focus computation&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">on the most informative contextual features, drastically reducing&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">complexity while enhancing discriminative power. This unique&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">combination directly addresses the critical challenges of computational&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">efficiency and effective context modeling in real-world&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">irrigation systems. Experimental results show that the proposed&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">method outperforms traditional GNN models such as SAGEConv&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">with 12 standard time series forecasting methods in key metrics,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">including accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-Score.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5>Full text:  <a class=\"fas fa-file-pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/els-journal.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-29-2-04.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scopus.com\/inward\/citedby.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&#038;doi=10.53314\/ELS2529070H&#038;origin=inward\" ref=\"scopus-citedby\" rel=\"noopener\"><image src=\"http:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/abstract\/citation-count?doi=10.53314\/ELS2529070H&#038;httpAccept=image%2Fjpeg&#038;apiKey=87124910cd33413b75b0a6f4e70d58bd\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cited by count\"\/><\/a>\n\n\n\n\nGoogle Scholar Citations <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\" href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;cites=http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.53314\/ELS2529070H\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>\n\n\n\n\n<center> <span class=\"__dimensions_badge_embed__\" data-doi=\"10.53314\/ELS2529070H\" data-style=\"small_circle\"><\/span> <\/center> <script async src=\"https:\/\/badge.dimensions.ai\/badge.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n\n<center>Google Scholar Citations <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\" href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;cites=http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.53314\/ELS2529070H\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/center>\n\n\n\n\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scopus.com\/inward\/citedby.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&#038;doi=10.53314\/ELS2529070H&#038;origin=inward\" ref=\"scopus-citedby\" rel=\"noopener\"><image src=\"http:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/abstract\/citation-count?doi=10.53314\/ELS2529070H&#038;httpAccept=image%2Fjpeg&#038;apiKey=87124910cd33413b75b0a6f4e70d58bd\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cited by count\"\/><\/a>\n\n\n\n\n<center><span class=\"__dimensions_badge_embed__\" data-doi=\"10.53314\/ELS2529070H\" data-style=\"large_rectangle\"><\/span><\/center><script async src=\"https:\/\/badge.dimensions.ai\/badge.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":873,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-975","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/els-journal.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/els-journal.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/els-journal.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/els-journal.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/els-journal.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/els-journal.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/els-journal.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/975\/revisions\/980"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/els-journal.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/els-journal.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}