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6 Citations
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Challenges to Viticulture in Montenegro under Climate Change

  • António Fernandes,
  • Nataša Kovač,
  • Hélder Fraga,
  • André Fonseca,
  • Sanja Šućur Radonjić,
  • Marko Simeunović,
  • Kruna Ratković,
  • Christoph Menz,
  • Sergi Costafreda-Aumedes and
  • João A. Santos

The Montenegrin climate is characterised as very heterogeneous due to its complex topography. The viticultural heritage, dating back to before the Roman empire, is settled in a Mediterranean climate region, located south of the capital Podgorica, whe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
71 Citations
10,476 Views
35 Pages

The European climate is changing displaying profound impacts on agriculture, thus strongly reaching the scientific community’s attention. In this review, the compilation of selected scientific research on the agroclimatic conditions’ chan...

  • Review
  • Open Access
156 Citations
22,546 Views
20 Pages

Remote Sensing Vegetation Indices in Viticulture: A Critical Review

  • Rigas Giovos,
  • Dimitrios Tassopoulos,
  • Dionissios Kalivas,
  • Nestor Lougkos and
  • Anastasia Priovolou

One factor of precision agriculture is remote sensing, through which we can monitor vegetation health and condition. Much research has been conducted in the field of remote sensing and agriculture analyzing the applications, while the reviews gather...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
371 Views
7 Pages

Empowering Sustainable Precision Viticulture: The VTskills E-Learning Platform

  • Aikaterini Paltaki,
  • Dimitra Lazaridou,
  • Efstratios Loizou,
  • Manuel Pérez-Ruiz,
  • Stefanos A. Nastis,
  • Thomas Bournaris,
  • Tilde Scali and
  • Anastasios Michailidis

European wine production is undergoing a significant transformation, with precision viticulture (PV) emerging as a vital strategy for its long-term viability. Viticulture can benefit from the integration of digital tools and smart technologies. The V...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,817 Views
31 Pages

Computer Vision and Deep Learning for Precision Viticulture

  • Lucas Mohimont,
  • François Alin,
  • Marine Rondeau,
  • Nathalie Gaveau and
  • Luiz Angelo Steffenel

11 October 2022

During the last decades, researchers have developed novel computing methods to help viticulturists solve their problems, primarily those linked to yield estimation of their crops. This article aims to summarize the existing research associated with c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,574 Views
25 Pages

Conception, Consequences and Design of Cool Climate Viticulture Training Systems

  • Richard Danko,
  • Pavel Pavloušek,
  • Magdalena Kapłan and
  • Kamila E. Klimek

1 November 2024

In this review, the problems, challenges and opportunities of trellis design are dealt with in the conditions of cool climate viticulture influenced by climate changes. Viticulture in so-called cool climate regions faces a number of weather and clima...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
13,575 Views
36 Pages

The potential of precision viticulture has been highlighted since the first studies performed in the context of viticulture, but especially in the last decade there have been excellent results have been achieved in terms of innovation and simple appl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
8,714 Views
21 Pages

Advances in Unmanned Aerial System Remote Sensing for Precision Viticulture

  • Alberto Sassu,
  • Filippo Gambella,
  • Luca Ghiani,
  • Luca Mercenaro,
  • Maria Caria and
  • Antonio Luigi Pazzona

1 February 2021

New technologies for management, monitoring, and control of spatio-temporal crop variability in precision viticulture scenarios are numerous. Remote sensing relies on sensors able to provide useful data for the improvement of management efficiency an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,558 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of a Fixed Spraying System for Phytosanitary Treatments in Heroic Viticulture in North-Eastern Italy

  • Gaetano Imperatore,
  • Aurora Ghirardelli,
  • Luca Strinna,
  • Cristiano Baldoin,
  • Alberto Pozzebon,
  • Giuseppe Zanin and
  • Stefan Otto

Modern viticulture cannot be practiced without the use of plant protection products to control diseases like downy mildew, powdery mildew, and pests. In severely sloping vineyards, where mechanization is not possible, pesticide application is realize...

  • Review
  • Open Access
383 Citations
34,149 Views
20 Pages

An Update on the Impact of Climate Change in Viticulture and Potential Adaptations

  • Cornelis van Leeuwen,
  • Agnès Destrac-Irvine,
  • Matthieu Dubernet,
  • Eric Duchêne,
  • Mark Gowdy,
  • Elisa Marguerit,
  • Philippe Pieri,
  • Amber Parker,
  • Laure de Rességuier and
  • Nathalie Ollat

5 September 2019

Climate change will impose increasingly warm and dry conditions on vineyards. Wine quality and yield are strongly influenced by climatic conditions and depend on complex interactions between temperatures, water availability, plant material, and vitic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,635 Views
18 Pages

Climate Change and Viticulture in Italy: Historical Trends and Future Scenarios

  • Vittorio Alba,
  • Alessandra Russi,
  • Angelo Raffaele Caputo and
  • Giovanni Gentilesco

25 July 2024

(1) Background: The aim of this work was to characterize climatic evolution and change based on multicriteria classification through the dynamics of bioclimatic indices in viticulture across Italy and its regional administrative boundaries, focusing...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
423 Citations
36,518 Views
28 Pages

A Review of the Potential Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Options for European Viticulture

  • João A. Santos,
  • Helder Fraga,
  • Aureliano C. Malheiro,
  • José Moutinho-Pereira,
  • Lia-Tânia Dinis,
  • Carlos Correia,
  • Marco Moriondo,
  • Luisa Leolini,
  • Camilla Dibari and
  • Hans R. Schultz
  • + 6 authors

29 April 2020

Viticulture and winemaking are important socioeconomic sectors in many European regions. Climate plays a vital role in the terroir of a given wine region, as it strongly controls canopy microclimate, vine growth, vine physiology, yield, and berry com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,726 Views
16 Pages

23 May 2017

This paper presents an investigation of natural inspired intelligent computing and its corresponding application towards visual information processing systems for viticulture. The paper has three contributions: (1) a review of visual information proc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,908 Views
28 Pages

Heterogeneous Autonomous Robotic System in Viticulture and Mariculture: Vehicles Development and Systems Integration

  • Nadir Kapetanović,
  • Jurica Goričanec,
  • Ivo Vatavuk,
  • Ivan Hrabar,
  • Dario Stuhne,
  • Goran Vasiljević,
  • Zdenko Kovačić,
  • Nikola Mišković,
  • Nenad Antolović and
  • Bernard Kozina
  • + 1 author

12 April 2022

There are activities in viticulture and mariculture that require extreme physical endurance from human workers, making them prime candidates for automation and robotization. This paper presents a novel, practical, heterogeneous, autonomous robotic sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,726 Views
18 Pages

EyesOnTraps: AI-Powered Mobile-Based Solution for Pest Monitoring in Viticulture

  • Luís Rosado,
  • Pedro Faria,
  • João Gonçalves,
  • Eduardo Silva,
  • Ana Vasconcelos,
  • Cristiana Braga,
  • João Oliveira,
  • Rafael Gomes,
  • Telmo Barbosa and
  • Cristina Carlos
  • + 3 authors

8 August 2022

Due to the increasingly alarming consequences of climate change, pests are becoming a growing threat to grape quality and viticulture yields. Estimating the quantity and type of treatments to control these diseases is particularly challenging due to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,186 Views
21 Pages

Pesticides Identification and Sustainable Viticulture Practices to Reduce Their Use: An Overview

  • Samuel Tucker,
  • Georgiana-Diana Dumitriu (Gabur) and
  • Carmen Teodosiu

24 November 2022

The use of pesticides is a necessary practice in the modern era. Therefore, it is impossible to ignore the pesticide market, which has developed into one of the most lucrative in the world. Nowadays, humans are subjected to many potential risks, and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,004 Views
18 Pages

22 August 2024

The priority problem in intensive viticulture is reducing pesticides, and fertilizers, and improving water-use efficiency. This is driven by global and EU regulatory efforts. This review, systematically examines 92 papers, focusing on progress in sat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,616 Views
16 Pages

A Sustainable Viticulture Method Adapted to the Cold Climate Zone in China

  • Xing Han,
  • Tingting Xue,
  • Xu Liu,
  • Zhilei Wang,
  • Liang Zhang,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Fei Yao,
  • Hua Wang and
  • Hua Li

Due to the particularity of the continental monsoon climate in China, more than 90% of the wine grape cultivation areas require vines to be buried in winter for a burial period that can extend to half a year. Additionally, traditional vine cultivatio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
157 Citations
19,035 Views
22 Pages

14 April 2021

Climate change is a continuous spatiotemporal reality, possibly endangering the viability of the grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) in the future. Europe emerges as an especially responsive area where the grapevine is largely recognised as one of the most...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,035 Views
31 Pages

Improving Sustainable Viticulture in Developing Countries: A Case Study

  • Zandra Betzabe Rivera Chavez,
  • Alessia Porcaro,
  • Marco Claudio De Simone and
  • Domenico Guida

9 June 2025

This paper presents the identification of the functional requirements and development of a preliminary concept of the AgriRover, a low-cost, modular autonomous vehicle intended to support sustainable practices in traditional vineyards in developing c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,398 Views
20 Pages

Biodynamic Viticulture Representations in the French Wine Industry: A Textual Analysis

  • Manuela Brando de Lachapelle,
  • Frédéric Brochet and
  • Laurence Geny-Denis

At a time marked by a transition in winegrowing methods, the decision to employ biodynamic viticulture, and its holistic approach, is a choice made by many technicians in the French wine industry. Nevertheless, this practice is perceived very differe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,160 Views
18 Pages

Cold climate viticulture is challenged by climatic variability, including increased frost risk, shorter growing seasons, and unpredictable weather events that impact vine productivity and grape quality. Global warming is altering traditional viticult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,238 Views
22 Pages

Alpine Viticulture and Climate Change: Environmental Resources and Limitations for Grapevine Ripening in Valtellina, Italy

  • Davide Modina,
  • Gabriele Cola,
  • Davide Bianchi,
  • Martino Bolognini,
  • Sonia Mancini,
  • Ivano Foianini,
  • Adriano Cappelletti,
  • Osvaldo Failla and
  • Lucio Brancadoro

23 May 2023

The effects of the spatial and temporal variability of environmental factors on viticulture are particularly important in mountainous wine regions due to their complex geomorphology. A typical example is Valtellina, an Italian valley in the middle of...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,764 Views
1 Page

Diversifying Steep Slope Viticulture—Towards a Sustainable Intensive Agriculture?

  • Manuel Seeger,
  • Felix Dittrich,
  • Thomas Iserloh and
  • Sören Thiele-Bruhn

Viticulture is a land use system with a high impact on the environment and the landscape due to the high input of energy and material for soil and plant management. Reducing the input would help to reduce both, the environmental and economic costs, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,655 Views
27 Pages

22 April 2019

It took some time indeed, but the research evolution and transformations that occurred in the smart agriculture field over the recent years tend to constitute the latter as the main topic of interest in the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) domain....

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
186 Views
5 Pages

Experimental Assessment of Autonomous Fleet Operations for Precision Viticulture Under Real Vineyard Conditions

  • Gavriela Asiminari,
  • Vasileios Moysiadis,
  • Dimitrios Kateris,
  • Aristotelis C. Tagarakis,
  • Athanasios Balafoutis and
  • Dionysis Bochtis

The increase in global population and climatic instability places unprecedented demands on agricultural productivity. Autonomous robotic systems, specifically unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), provide potential solu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,642 Views
19 Pages

Reuse of Treated Wastewater to Address Water Scarcity in Viticulture: A Comprehensive Review

  • Cátia Sofia Costa,
  • Cristina Carlos,
  • Ana Alexandra Oliveira and
  • Ana Novo Barros

12 April 2025

Water scarcity has become an increasingly critical global issue, affecting various sectors, including industrial, domestic, and particularly agriculture. Agriculture, as the largest consumer of water due to its substantial water requirements for food...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
6,542 Views
14 Pages

What Is the Impact of Heatwaves on European Viticulture? A Modelling Assessment

  • Helder Fraga,
  • Daniel Molitor,
  • Luisa Leolini and
  • João A. Santos

26 April 2020

Extreme heat events or heatwaves can be particularly harmful to grapevines, posing a major challenge to winegrowers in Europe. The present study is focused on the application of the crop model STICS to assess the potential impacts of heatwaves over s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,613 Views
20 Pages

Combining Precision Viticulture Technologies and Economic Indices to Sustainable Water Use Management

  • Adele Finco,
  • Deborah Bentivoglio,
  • Giulia Chiaraluce,
  • Matteo Alberi,
  • Enrico Chiarelli,
  • Andrea Maino,
  • Fabio Mantovani,
  • Michele Montuschi,
  • Kassandra Giulia Cristina Raptis and
  • Giorgia Bucci
  • + 8 authors

6 May 2022

The scarcity of water due to climate change is endangering worldwide the production, quality, and economic viability of growing wine grapes. One of the main mitigation measures to be adopted in the viticulture sector will be an adequate irrigation st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,991 Views
12 Pages

6 January 2023

In the last few decades, criticisms arose in society over sustainability in viticulture, due particularly to environmental and health concerns about pesticide use. The presence of social conflicts is well documented in some renowned wine areas as the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,963 Views
23 Pages

A Proposed Low-Cost Viticulture Stress Framework for Table Grape Varieties

  • Sotirios Kontogiannis and
  • Christodoulos Asiminidis

4 November 2020

Climate change significantly affects viticulture by reducing the production yield and the quality characteristics of its final products. In some observed cases, the consequences of climate outages such as droughts, hail and floods are absolutely deva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
615 Views
27 Pages

27 December 2025

Bioclimatic monitoring at vineyard scale is essential for irrigation management and disease-risk assessment, yet many systems rely on expensive commercial stations or generic IoT nodes with limited validation and little focus on small and medium-size...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,878 Views
10 Pages

Climate is a limiting factor in viticulture, as it defines favorable areas, grape cultivars, and agrotechnical activities. In the Sevastopol region, viticulture is the main and promising agricultural branch. Using the outputs of the regional climate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
858 Views
14 Pages

Preliminary Study of Vision-Based Artificial Intelligence Application to Evaluate Occupational Risks in Viticulture

  • Sirio R. S. Cividino,
  • Alessio Cappelli,
  • Paolo Belluco,
  • Fabiano Rinaldi,
  • Lena Avramovic and
  • Mauro Zaninelli

4 November 2025

The agricultural sector remains one of the most hazardous working environments, with viticulture posing particularly high risks due to repetitive manual tasks, pesticide exposure, and machinery operation. This study explores the potential of vision-b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,037 Views
18 Pages

Intelligent Monitoring System to Assess Plant Development State Based on Computer Vision in Viticulture

  • Marina Rudenko,
  • Anatoliy Kazak,
  • Nikolay Oleinikov,
  • Angela Mayorova,
  • Anna Dorofeeva,
  • Dmitry Nekhaychuk and
  • Olga Shutova

3 September 2023

Plant health plays an important role in influencing agricultural yields and poor plant health can lead to significant economic losses. Grapes are an important and widely cultivated plant, especially in the southern regions of Russia. Grapes are subje...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,639 Views
21 Pages

Comparative Assessment of Environmental/Energy Performance under Conventional Labor and Collaborative Robot Scenarios in Greek Viticulture

  • Emmanouil Tziolas,
  • Eleftherios Karapatzak,
  • Ioannis Kalathas,
  • Chris Lytridis,
  • Spyridon Mamalis,
  • Stefanos Koundouras,
  • Theodore Pachidis and
  • Vassilis G. Kaburlasos

2 February 2023

The viticultural sector is facing a significant maturation phase, dealing with environmental challenges to reduce agrochemical application and energy consumption, while labor shortages are increasing throughout Europe and beyond. Autonomous collabora...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
11,557 Views
36 Pages

10 April 2014

This article documents and compares the most prominent sustainability assessment programs for individual organisations in viticulture worldwide. Certification and engagement processes for membership uptake; benefits; motives; inhibiting factors; and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
14,247 Views
26 Pages

VineSens: An Eco-Smart Decision-Support Viticulture System

  • Josman P. Pérez-Expósito,
  • Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés,
  • Paula Fraga-Lamas and
  • Luis Castedo

25 February 2017

This article presents VineSens, a hardware and software platform for supporting the decision-making of the vine grower. VineSens is based on a wireless sensor network system composed by autonomous and self-powered nodes that are deployed throughout a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,689 Views
15 Pages

Structural and Spatial Shifts in the Viticulture Potential of Main European Wine Regions as an Effect of Climate Change

  • Liviu Mihai Irimia,
  • Cristian Valeriu Patriche,
  • Théo Petitjean,
  • Cyril Tissot,
  • Luis Gonzaga Santesteban,
  • Etienne Neethling,
  • Chris Foss,
  • Renan Le Roux and
  • Hervé Quénol

Climate change modifies the base climate of the wine regions and, with it, the structure of their traditional types of wine production, imposing measures to adapt, mitigate, or capitalize on the newly emerging conditions. In order to assess the impac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,908 Views
28 Pages

6 January 2025

Grapevines are subjected to many physiological and environmental stresses that influence their vegetative and reproductive growth. Water stress, cold damage, and pathogen attacks are highly relevant stresses in many grape-growing regions. Precision v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
461 Views
23 Pages

YOLOv11-IMP: Anchor-Free Multiscale Detection Model for Accurate Grape Yield Estimation in Precision Viticulture

  • Shaoxiong Zheng,
  • Xiaopei Yang,
  • Peng Gao,
  • Qingwen Guo,
  • Jiahong Zhang,
  • Shihong Chen and
  • Yunchao Tang

2 February 2026

Estimating grape yields in viticulture is hindered by persistent challenges, including strong occlusion between grapes, irregular cluster morphologies, and fluctuating illumination throughout the growing season. This study introduces YOLOv11-IMP, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
9,089 Views
15 Pages

Sentinel-2 Validation for Spatial Variability Assessment in Overhead Trellis System Viticulture Versus UAV and Agronomic Data

  • Salvatore Filippo Di Gennaro,
  • Riccardo Dainelli,
  • Alberto Palliotti,
  • Piero Toscano and
  • Alessandro Matese

2 November 2019

Several remote sensing technologies have been tested in precision viticulture to characterize vineyard spatial variability, from traditional aircraft and satellite platforms to recent unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Imagery processing is still a cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
6,017 Views
13 Pages

Rethinking Sustainability within the Viticulture Realities Integrating Economy, Landscape and Energy

  • Ilaria Zambon,
  • Andrea Colantoni,
  • Massimo Cecchini and
  • Enrico Maria Mosconi

26 January 2018

Sustainability is often explained through three dimensions (society, economy and environment). However, such a definition currently appears to be restricted. Sustainable development often includes the energy issue. An example of realities founded on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,691 Views
18 Pages

17 February 2023

The continuous use of Cu-based fungicides in viticulture has caused Cu accumulation in soils, which represents a major environmental and toxicological concern. The purpose of this study was to verify whether the organic management would be more resil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,898 Views
23 Pages

8 February 2025

Viticulture in Montenegro faces significant challenges due to fragmented data management, limited access to high-resolution climate predictions, and the lack of systematic integration between stakeholders. This study addresses these issues by proposi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,311 Views
20 Pages

The Use of Grape Pomace Residues as a Nutrient Source in Subtropical Viticulture

  • Allan Augusto Kokkonen,
  • Tadeu Luis Tiecher,
  • Arcângelo Loss,
  • Moreno Toselli,
  • Luana Paula Garlet,
  • Ana Luiza Lima Marques,
  • Daniéle Gonçalves Papalia,
  • Samuel Schemmer,
  • Vanessa Ferraz Costa and
  • Gustavo Brunetto
  • + 1 author

22 April 2025

The global wine industry is shifting towards organic viticulture to reduce dependence on industrial inputs, favoring organic nutrient sources like grape pomace. However, the suitability of grape pomace-based compost and vermicompost in subtropical re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,642 Views
18 Pages

Impact of Climate Change on the Development of Viticulture in Central Poland: Autoregression Modeling SAT Indicator

  • Daria Maciejewska,
  • Dawid Olewnicki,
  • Dagmara Stangierska-Mazurkiewicz,
  • Marcin Tyminski and
  • Piotr Latocha

Ongoing climate change is having a profound impact on agriculture, which is attracting attention from the scientific community. One of its effects is an increase in average temperature, which is a key factor in grape cultivation. This may increase th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,813 Views
21 Pages

Multisensor Analysis for Biostimulants Effect Detection in Sustainable Viticulture

  • Alberto Sassu,
  • Alessandro Deidda,
  • Luca Mercenaro,
  • Beatrice Virgillito and
  • Filippo Gambella

5 December 2024

Biostimulants are organic agents employed for crop yield enhancement, quality improvement, and environmental stress mitigation, reducing, at the same time, reliance on inorganic inputs. With advancements in sustainable agriculture, data acquisition t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,207 Views
26 Pages

27 September 2024

The quality of wine depends upon the quality of the grapes, which, in turn, are affected by different viticulture aspects and the climate during the grape-growing season. Obtaining wine professionals’ judgments of the intrinsic qualities of sel...

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