Bacchus Project
Staff Writer - November 13, 2003
Methodological Approach for Vineyard Inventory and management
 BACCHUS is a project co-funded by the EC within the EESD Program and implemented by 14 companies, institutes, public agencies and regulatory organizations belonging to some of the main wine producing regions in Europe, including Italy, France, Spain and Portugal.
BACCHUS' main scientific aim is to provide vineyard management organizations with an integrated and comprehensive solution to meet their information requirements, based on the use of Very High Resolution Remote Sensing data, Geographical Information Systems and modern software programming languages, improving current methodologies for vine area location, parcel identification and vine characteristic specifications. A methodology for vineyard inventory and management will be developed, which will be implemented and tested by way of a pilot system meant for vineyard managers as an instrument for
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obtaining statistical information,
- improving regulation and land management and
- simplifying planning and quality control regarding areasregistered as Controlled Origin Denomination.
Although this is a pioneering project, it isn't the first time that space-collected information is used by the wine industry. Robert Mondavi Winery, of Napa Valley, California, first used remote-sensing imagery collected by NASA satellites to track phylloxera infestation in California Wine Country in 1993.
Several California wine producers use similar technologies to track vineyard data such as how grape quality is affected by the density of leaves on the vine.
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