Infrared devices that detect when crops need to be irrigated and how much water to apply has been installed on a south-west NSW vineyard.
abc.net.au/news/water-stress-sensors-installed-on-nsw-vineyard/101706312Knowing when to irrigate crops and how much water to apply is something horticulturalists have battled with for years.Forty-one properties in Australia and New Zealand are using the equipment
In south-west New South Wales, Duxton Vineyards just installed 14 sensors developed by Athena IR-Tech.Duxton Vineyards environmental manager Dylan Klingbiel said the cameras monitored the behaviour of the leaf pores. "There's talks of it being seven days prior to actually seeing that vine stress, so that's another exciting feature," he said.The technology is expected to do more than just to create water efficiency gains.
The infrared sensors are positioned above vines to monitor temperature, humidity and solar radiation.Development for the technology started about a decade ago at Cornell University in the United States before designers Vinay Pagay and Fran Doerflinger moved to Australia and continued their work at the University of Adelaide.
"The solution works on any irrigated crop, but to add new crops or new grape varieties we need to follow the new crop so information can be added to the algorithm," he said.
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