Vineyard going green or turning yellow?
11 November 2025
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about contact Vineyard managers can’t change the amount of sun or rain that their vines receive but they can ensure that vines extract the maximum
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Drones in the vineyard
10 October 2024
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about contact Drones at JoJo’s vineyard, Russell’s Water Oxfordshire UAVs have long been discussed as a way to survey vineyards for vine health and apply
Hear more from microLED displays!
26 July 2024
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about contact Last week someone asked Corbeau, ‘So what’s happening in the world of microLED displays?’ After the US launch of Apple’s new Vision Pro
Smartphone spectral leaf imaging
28 October 2022
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about contact Strawberry leaf images and Red Green Blue indices derived using OpenCV image analysis All season we have been monitoring the health of our
New colour MicroLED display technology
21 September 2022
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about contact MicroLED chip with 3 micron pitch pixels (Image courtesy of MICLEDI Microdisplays BV) Small is beautiful. Small and brightly coloured is very beautiful
Mineral deficiency in bean leaves classified by multispectral imaging
31 July 2022
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about contact French bean plant Plants tell us when they are lacking vital nutrients but we can’t always hear what they are saying. Nitrogen, phosphorous
Coffee leaf miner infection located by multispectral imaging
31 May 2022
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about contact news There’s an awful lot of coffee in Brazil! according to the old song recorded by Frank Sinatra. In 2021 almost 70 million
Raman spectroscopy sorts male hemp plants from females
31 March 2022
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about contact news Cannabis sativa (courtesy Wikipedia) It turns out that growers of medicinal cannabis and those catering for a more recreational market love females
Smart glasses get smarter
27 January 2022
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What happens when you put two superior optical technologies together? In the case of smart glasses you get bigger, brighter and less blurry. Kingsman-style
Red microLED breakthrough for AR displays
30 November 2021
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Autumn is a time of year that the folk at Porotech in Cambridge, UK seem to love. Those deep red autumn colours mark a year
Precision viticulture coming to fruition
31 October 2021
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Mists, check. Mellow fruitfulness, check. Maturing sun, – eventually check! In the UK the 2021 growing season has been good but not exceptional. A late
Cassava virus infection detected with handheld multispectral imager
30 September 2021
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One of the most important sources of carbohydrate energy in equatorial countries comes from the cassava plant. It looks like a trendy house plant but
Counting grapes with machine learning
29 August 2021
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As the grapes swell in the late summer sun and rain, vignerons start thinking about the harvest. What is the yield going to be? how
Smarts or knowledge – which one wins at precision agriculture?
31 July 2021
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Imagine a competition to produce the highest yields of winter wheat between Sheldon Cooper and a winner of the Apprentice. Who would win? It’s tempting
Vineyard yield estimation with smartphone imaging and AI
1 June 2021
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There is so much potential in those tightly closed flower buds. Over the course of the summer the flowers on vines bloom, turn into tiny
Precision viticulture for table grapes
2 May 2021
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Some farmers do not pick grapes, squash them and then ferment the juice. Some farmers just sell them for eating. And why not? Grapes have
Discovering precision viticulture
6 March 2021
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Imagine sharing a bottle of wine as the sun sets slowly over the vineyard. Who wouldn’t want to work in a winery? Corbeau founder Pierre
Micro-LED driven AR smart glasses
21 February 2021
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Augmented Reality (AR) glasses are now looking remarkably stylish. Forget bulky Virtual Reality (VR) headsets and piratical Google Glass. Optoelectronics company Vuzix (Rochester, NY) has