APPLICAZIONE DELLA VITICULTURA DI PRECISIONE PROMUOVENDO SOSTENIBILITÀ E QUALITÀ ANALISI ED INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE CONTESTUALIZZATI SU STUDI A DIVERSI LIVELLI E DIMENSIONI

Over the last few years, winemaking has been one of the most profitable sectors for Italian agriculture. Grapes and wine quality are essential to ensure market competitiveness for vine growers, especially in the Veneto region, the fourth most important wine producer worldwide. Climate change, PDO (protected denomination of origin) rules, the demand for low environmental impact practices, and the increasing mechanization are some issues that could have a common solution: precision viticulture. Thanks to the availability of new technologies, precision viticulture exploits many instruments to gather and process information from vineyards, supporting farmers in the daily decision-making of vineyard management. Grapevine’s monitoring allows dividing parcel plots based on the specific field variability. Applying the GNSS navigation system to the tractor and adopting variable rate technologies boosts the more efficient use of agronomic inputs, managing grape quality, and enhancing economic profits. This research aims to test the most prominent sensors and monitoring techniques applicable in vineyards, learn the relationship between field operations and grapes quality, and assess the information from monitoring many remote and proximal sensors. The implementation of successful monitoring techniques and forecasting models are among the feasible answers to the request for an accurate approach to enhancing the quality of the grapes and increasing the profitability of the whole viticulture sector.