Counting grapes with machine learning
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 much sugar will there be in the grapes and finally how many bottles of wine can be made? It would be really useful to have a way to predict the […]
Smarts or knowledge – which one wins at precision agriculture?
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 to choose the Big Bang brain-box but what if Lord Sugar’s apprentice had spent 10 years working on arable farms in the UK, Australia and the USA before joining the […]
Vineyard yield estimation with smartphone imaging and AI
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 green spheres and ultimately heavy bunches of grapes. Or at least that is the hope of the vineyard owner and winery. Accurately estimating the size of the harvest well in […]