Jun 23, 2020 | IVES Conference Series, Landscape and Environmental Sustainability and Biodiversity, Terroir 2016, Understanding and Managing Wine Production from Different Terroirs
A « terroir » is a cultivated ecosystem in which the vine interacts with the soil and the climate. Main climatic parameters include temperature, rainfall and reference evapotranspiration
Jun 23, 2020 | IVES Conference Series, Terroir 2016, Terroir Zoning Techniques
The objective of this investigation was to verify usefulness of proximal sensing technology and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for mapping variables e.g., vine size (potential vigor), soil and vine water status, yield, fruit composition, and virus incidence in vineyards.
Jun 23, 2020 | IVES Conference Series, Terroir 2016, Terroir Zoning Techniques
Nebbiolo (Vitis vinifera L.) is one of the most important wine red cultivar of North-west Italy. A better understanding of the complex relations among grape aromatic and phenolic maturity and environmental factors may strongly contribute to the improvement of the quality of Nebbiolo wines.
Jun 23, 2020 | IVES Conference Series, Terroir 2016, Terroir Zoning Techniques
Knowledge of the reflectance spectrum of grape leaves is important to the identification of grape varieties in images of viticultural regions where several cultivars co-exist.
Jun 23, 2020 | IVES Conference Series, Terroir 2016, Terroir Zoning Techniques
Terroir zoning studies have to manage the heterogeneity and complexity of the landscape properties and processes. The varying geology is one of the main landscape properties conditioning the spatial variability of terroirs.