Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
Last modified: 28 June 2023
Modified By: Michael Wise
We will harvest a crop in March 2024, but as disease management in the vineyard over the past 20 years has been less than ideal, I am not sure of crop quality for 2024, and I expect that it will be the 2025 crop that is back in order. But we will have a 2024 harvest of around 600kg of wine grapes for the production of both wine and grappa.
What I would like to do is to be able use low cost remote sensing technology that somehow maps back to a central web based system on water moister (or temperature or both aspects if possible) along the rows in the vineyard. This information will then be used to monitor an irrigation program and will be used in a teaching program for agricultural science on vineyard management. Ideally we would be able to link the monitoring system back to the irrigation system here, but i think that might be a little bit too complicated.
As this is UWA I have a modest budget for getting the vineyard back in order that can be used to pay for technology that is installed. I made some initial enquires about commercial remote sensing solutions and the quote was $20K, which is above what I an afford to pay for something that is essentially for a teaching activity that will be split across two units in agricultural science.
There some Agricultural Engineers at the field station and I think they could help with any physical aspects of protecting sensors etc., if the students were just able to cover the computer science side of things, of having a platform that we can use to monitor the soil water content, or the temperature/humidity at the site.
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