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Deep Planet Articles
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How Can Deep Planet`s Portal Work for You?
We have designed our portal to put industry-leading precision viticulture tools directly into the hands of growers and wineries, taking the stress out of your vineyard management with on-demand analysis to help you increase the value of your yield. ...
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Beyond NDVI: Grape Maturity Maps for Better Quality Wine
2-minute read To achieve the desired quality of wine, grapes need to be harvested at a specific maturity level. A key determinant of maturity is grape sugar levels. In simple terms, sugar levels at the time of harvest determine the alcohol ...
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Grape Maturity Predictions Made Easy with AI
Grape maturity monitoring is an important task as it is used to make one of the most critical decisions during the growing season - determining when grapes are likely to be ready for harvest. Currently, chemical indicators such as sugar levels, ...
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Efficient Vineyard Irrigation Series #3: How to dynamically optimise irrigation scheduling
As climate change increases the cost and scarcity of water, as well as consumer concerns over environmental impact, efficient irrigation is fast becoming a key component of successful vineyard management. The need for efficiency is also growing ...
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Efficient Vineyard Irrigation Series #2: How to Predict Soil Moisture for the Next Two Weeks
As viticulturists and grape growers know, understanding current and future soil moisture content is a prerequisite for taking actions to reduce crop variability, optimise water usage, and tackle irrigation problems. Adequate soil moisture is ...
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Tackle Vineyard Variability with Vine Health Predictions
Variability in vine vigour and grape composition makes it difficult for growers to meet uniform quality specifications from winemakers. As a result, growers often have the opportunity to make up to AU$2,155 per hectare for reducing ...
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Predicting Shiraz Yield to 95% accuracy in Barossa, Coonawarra and the Hunter Valley
Yield prediction of grapes to date has so far been anyone’s guess. In-field estimates, even on the week of picking, can have an error of up to 30% from the actual tonnage. With the variability in weather conditions causing ...
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Find and Monitor Tree Crops for Sustainability
We can monitor agricultural production around the globe using satellites. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of satellites and the frequency and resolution of images being captured. Such large amount of data on a daily and weekly ...
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Efficient Vineyard Irrigation Series #1: How to see Soil Moisture at all points in the sub-terrain
Soil moisture is critical to the growth of the vine and monitoring can help take actions to improve grape quality and yield. With the increasing scarcity of water and cost of water, optimizing irrigation timing, frequency, quantity and ...