Researching the use of UAVs to monitor vineyard assets in southern British Columbia

新喀里多尼亚学院和Church & State Wines正在合作开展一项应用研究项目，探索使用无人机（无人机）来监控葡萄园资产。 Church & State Wines是一家位于不列颠哥伦比亚省奥卡诺根山谷的优质精品酒庄。在竞争激烈的全球市场中，有效监控高价值葡萄作物的收获是生产优质葡萄酒的一个重大挑战。无人机的使用可能是一项重要的创新，可以提供实时的成本效益数据，帮助酿酒厂运营商在整个种植周期中做出有关作物的决策。 该项目将重点研究最佳的无人机飞行和相机参数，以捕捉关键的树叶和葡萄特征与航空数字图像。该项目将通过采用创新流程使Church & State Wines受益，该流程通过使用实时数据优化管理和收获活动来降低运营成本并提高葡萄产量的价值。 大学生将受益于无人机操作和数据收集，数字图像分析和采用新兴技术到专业行业的培训。

The College of New Caledonia and Church & State Wines are collaborating on an applied research project to explore the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to monitor vineyard assets. Church & State Wines is a premium quality, boutique winery situated in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. The ability to effectively monitor high-value grape crops through to harvest is a major challenge to producing quality wine in an extremely competitive global market. The use of UAVs could be an important innovation that provides real-time cost-effective data to help winery operators make decisions regarding their crops throughout the growing cycle. This project will focus on researching optimal UAV flight and camera parameters to capture critical foliage and grape characteristics with aerial digital images. This project will benefit Church & State Wines through the adoption of an innovative process that reduces operating costs and increases the value of their grape yields by using real-time data to optimize management and harvest activities. College students will benefit through training in the UAV operation and data collection, digital image analysis and adopting emerging technologies into specialized industries.