SMARTVINEYARD: AN OPEN SOURCE WEB-GIS APPLICATION FOR PRECISION VITICULTURE

SMARTVINEYARD: AN OPEN SOURCE WEB-GIS APPLICATION FOR PRECISION VITICULTURE T. De Filippis, L. Rocchi, E. Fiorillo, A. Matese, F. Di Gennaro, L. GenesioDemands are increasing worldwide for geospatial information and geodata accessibility to support vineyard management using new technology for precision farming. The rapid evolution of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and Geographical Science offers enormous potential for the development of optimized solutions for distributed information for precision viticulture. A web-services based system was developed to support operational applications for agronomic treatments and grape harvesting and to provide digital images for mobile devices that can also be integrated on farm machinery. SmartVineyard is a system designed to store, manage, access and disseminate data through WebGIS applications and advanced research in precision viticulture. It makes use of distributed and integrated agro-meteorological data, remote sensing, chemical and physical analysis data, soil and morphological data and has been tested on experimental vineyards in Tuscany region. The system architecture is designed using Open Source and CrossPlatform solutions. The system is based on a general-purpose framework for customized applications aimed at environmental sustainability of viticulture. The aim of this system is to promote the cost-effective integration of information through the use of open source software and thus encourage the creation of an environment of shared knowledge to support new methods of analysis and transfer of results for site-specific operational applications. The system also aims to test the data-flow used by VRT (Variable Rate Technology) machinery, either for industry or by field agronomists, winemakers and researchers.