Salvatore Filippo Di Gennaro

TL;DR: This work compares NDVI surveys performed with UAV, aircraft and satellite, to assess the capability of each platform to represent the intra-vineyard vegetation spatial variability and results indicate that the different platforms provide comparable results in vineyards characterized by coarse vegetation gradients and large vegetation clusters.

TL;DR: The use of UAVs in forestry will increase, possibly leading to a regular utilization for small-scale monitoring purposes in Europe when recent technologies (i.e. hyperspectral imagery and lidar) and methodological approaches will be consolidated.

TL;DR: In this article, an unmanned aerial vehicle (VIPtero) was assembled and tested with the aim of developing a flexible and powerful tool for site-specific vineyard management, which comprised a six-rotor aerial platform capable of flying autonomously to a predetermined point in space, and of a pitch and roll compensated multi-spectral camera for vegetation canopy reflectance recording.

TL;DR: This review presents a brief outline of state of the art of technologies in precision viticulture, divided in two sections, the first focusing on monitoring technologies such as geolocating and remote and proximal sensing; the second focuses on variable-rate technologies and the new agricultural robots.

TL;DR: The applicability of a UAV platform to use RGB, multispectral and thermal sensors was tested for specific purposes in precision viticulture and was demonstrated to be a valuable tool for fast multipurpose monitoring in a vineyard.