Precision Viticulture for Vineyard Management
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 294
Special Issue Editor
Interests: vineyard management; precision viticulture; sustainable viticulture; grapevine protection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Vineyards are variable, so management can be aimed within vineyards based on the variation in their inherent characteristics and objectives in terms of yield, grape quality and winemaking goals. The availability of a range of technologies, known as precision viticulture, provides winemakers and grape growers with the means to control variability to take advantage of the best areas and improve weaker ones. This Special Issue provides a review of recent research on vineyard variability and the development and application of precision viticulture techniques and technologies in vineyard and farm management.
Summary: Viticulture plays a crucial role in world agricultural production and is considered a production with a great economic impact in wine-growing countries. This Special Issue will focus on trends in new technologies in precision viticulture, whic seeks to use information technology to support vineyard operations and management, such as soil management, fertilizer use, water resource management, pesticide application, etc. Vineyard monitoring through precision viticulture technologies provides temporal and spatial information related to environmental parameters and crop characteristics. The information is collected, processed, and analyzed through various digital technologies. Among them, information and communication technologies (ICTs), decision support systems (DSSs), variable rate mechanization (VRT), remote and proximal sensors, and deep learning can help optimize vineyard management, saving resources, improving crop quantity and quality, and increasing sustainability. All of these technologies have a number of potential applications in precision viticulture.
Dr. Rita Perria
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- spatial variability
- remote and proximal sensing
- yield mapping
- vineyard survey
- terroir
- vineyard management
- sustainable production
