Precision Vineyard Management under Climate Change

Dear Colleagues,

Precision viticulture technologies are being implemented into vineyard management strategies because of their prompt capability to monitor vineyards in space as well as in time, which offers the growers great precision and accuracy when it comes to scheduling vineyard cultural practices. They can offer a more comprehensive and precise approach to assess, monitor, and manage spatial and temporal variability in vineyards by providing the capability of either individualized vineyard variability to help growers better understand the underlaying issues they need to address by specific management strategies, or treating the vineyard as a whole system so the growers can have a clear expectation for their production and quality.

In commercial vineyards, cultural practices are applied uniformly without considering the pre-existing spatial or temporal variability, which can potentially exacerbate the variations in vineyard productivity and wine quality. In addition, the complexity in vineyard systems makes it challenging to individualize each of the existing spatial variability options for making management decisions. All these issues lead to the need to utilize precision viticulture technologies to improve the overall efficiency of vineyard production with a consistent and uniform productivity and quality. On top of that, the frequently changing climate often generates many abiotic stresses to vineyards, which calls for a great need to scrutinize precision viticulture technologies in the context of climate change.

The aims of this Special Issue are to summarize and expose the newest cutting-edge technologies and techniques related to promoting agriculture technology adaptation and utilization in vineyards, and their prospective contributions towards the ease of monitoring and managing vineyards with a greater level of uniformity in the context of climate change. All grape sectors are welcomed, including wine, table, and raisin types. Additionally, this Special Issue also accepts various types of articles, including original research and review articles.

Dr. Runze Yu
Prof. Dr. Stefano Poni
Dr. Carlos Manuel Lopes
Guest Editors

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• viticulture
• grapes
• wine
• precision viticulture
• climate change