Geosense completes Vineyard acquisition program in Western Cape by RealWire
Geosense completes Vineyard acquisition program in Western Cape
Cape Town, April 21, 2011 – Getmapping subsidiary Geosense, in partnership with Precision Surveys has just completed a successful aerial and ground based acquisition program in the Western Cape focused primarily on the wine producing regions. The program undertaken during February and March of this year captured over 130,000 hectares of vineyards including farms in CapeTown, Hermanus, Grabouw, Stellenbosch, Franschoek and Piketberg.
The program provides Viticulturists with true colour and colour infrared orthorectified imagery as well as a normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI) map at high resolution (25cm Ground Sampled Distance). These are used as tools to assess the quality of the vines pre-veraison (prior to ripening).
NDVI imageTiming of the program is crucial as the maps must be provided when the fruit is still on the vine. Vineyards are normally divided into blocks and are frequently not uniform. The maps indicate the vines vitality and vigour and allow the wine maker to grade the vines into sub-blocks or
