This article presents VineSens, a hardware and software platform for supporting the decision-making of the vine grower. VineSens is based on a wireless sensor network system composed by autonomous and self-powered nodes that are deployed throughout a vineyard. Such nodes include sensors that allow us to obtain detailed knowledge on different viticulture processes. Thanks to the use of epidemiol...

In the Old-World vineyards of Europe, a key concept that plays an important role in the production and appreciation of wines is terroir, which refers to the special characteristics of a place that impart unique qualities to the wine produced. We examine whether terroir matters in the New-World wines produced in California’s Napa and Sonoma Counties by conducting a hedonic price analysis of vine...

Using airborne multispectral digital camera imagery, we compared a number of feature combination techniques in image classification to distinguish vineyard from non-vineyard land-cover types in northern California. Image processing techniques were applied to raw images to generate feature images including grey level co-occurrence based texture measures, low pass and Laplacian filtering results,...

Monitoring vine water status is a major issue for vineyard management because constraints impact both the quality and quantity of harvest. Existing methods are often costly complex to implement. ApeX-Vigne free mobile application developed facilitate collection geolocation 50 apex observations characterise shoot growth classify it into 3 categories. The also provides user with simple estimate b...

Southeastern Brazil is an emergent region in terms of the production high-quality fine wines. To contribute to typicity assessment, soils (morphology, mineralogy, chemical and physical analyses), parent material (geologic maps portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry) climate (temperature precipitation) were characterized seven vineyards located state Minas Gerais São Paulo, Brazil, by carrying...

Topography may induce variability in meteorological conditions at the meso-scale level and could influence grape quality. Understanding impact of topography on ripening allows for development sustainable management practices that include topographical influences their consideration. This is also important applying proactive strategies able to counter expected changes climate. study was conducte...