State of the Art of Monitoring Technologies and Data Processing for Precision Viticulture

• Published in: Agriculture (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 3; p. 201
• Main Authors: Ammoniaci, Marco, Kartsiotis, Simon-Paolo, Perria, Rita, Storchi, Paolo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.03.2021
• Subjects: Agricultural production; Agriculture; Cost control; Crops; Data processing; Decision support systems; DSS; Electric properties; Environmental impact; Environmental management; Geographic information systems; grapevine; Informatics; Monitoring systems; New technology; Optimization; Pesticides; Physiology; proximal sensing; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Remote sensing systems; Remote sensors; Resource management; Robotics; Satellites; Sensors; State-of-the-art reviews; Unmanned aerial vehicles; variable-rate technology; Vegetation; Vineyards; Viticulture; Wineries & vineyards; Wireless sensor networks; WSN
• ISSN: 2077-0472; 2077-0472
• DOI: 10.3390/agriculture11030201

Precision viticulture (PV) aims to optimize vineyard management, reducing the use of resources, the environmental impact and maximizing the yield and quality of the production. New technologies as UAVs, satellites, proximal sensors and variable rate machines (VRT) are being developed and used more and more frequently in recent years thanks also to informatics systems able to read, analyze and process a huge number of data in order to give the winegrowers a decision support system (DSS) for making better decisions at the right place and time. This review presents a brief state of the art of precision viticulture technologies, focusing on monitoring tools, i.e., remote/proximal sensing, variable rate machines, robotics, DSS and the wireless sensor network.