Technology in precision viticulture: a state of the art review

Precision viticulture aims to maximize the oenological potential of vineyards. This is especially true in regions where the high quality standards of wine production justify the adoption of site-specific management practices to simultaneously increase both quality and yield. The introduction of new...

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Published in:International journal of wine research 2015, Vol.7, p.69
Main Authors: Matese, Alessandro, Di Gennaro, Salvatore Filippo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agriculture
Analysis
Biomass
Biometeorology
Farming
Geospatial data
Global positioning systems
GPS
Internet
Morphology
Quality
Remote sensing
Robotics
Robots
Sensors
Soil sciences
Technology application
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Vegetation
Vehicles
Viticulture
Wineries & vineyards
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Summary:Precision viticulture aims to maximize the oenological potential of vineyards. This is especially true in regions where the high quality standards of wine production justify the adoption of site-specific management practices to simultaneously increase both quality and yield. The introduction of new technologies for supporting vineyard management allows the efficiency and quality of production to be improved and, at the same time, reduces the environmental impact. The rapid evolution of information communication technologies and geographical science offers enormous potential for the development of optimized solutions for distributed information for precision viticulture. Recent technological developments have allowed useful tools to be elaborated that help in the monitoring and control of many aspects of vine growth. Precision viticulture thus seeks to exploit the widest range of available observations to describe the vineyard spatial variability with high resolution, and provide recommendations to improve management efficiency in terms of quality, production, and sustainability. This review presents a brief outline of state of the art of technologies in precision viticulture. It is divided in two sections, the first focusing on monitoring technologies such as geolocating and remote and proximal sensing; the second focuses on variable-rate technologies and the new agricultural robots.
ISSN:1179-1403
1179-1403
DOI:10.2147/IJWR.S69405