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Droning their way to great grapes

01/10/2014 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Swiss vineyards take drones to new level GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Vineyards have been using drones regularly for aerial photography for some years, mainly in the US and Australia, but a Swiss pilot project is taking drones to new heights – not literally, but in terms of their technological prowess. This week a surprising Swiss trio […]

Filed Under: News, Wineries Tagged With: Chateau de Châtagneréaz, drones, EPFL, harvest, infrared, Mont-sur-Rolle, precision viticulture, SenseFly, soil, Swiss vineyards, water

Droning the vines, microspectural cameras and other 21st c tools

16/11/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Drones are the rage and have been for a while in the US and Australia, for learning more about vineyards at the micro level, a report done by the BBC says, but now wine grape growers are turning to newer tools such as microspectural cameras that rapidly provide data which can be […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Changins, EPFL, soil sampling, thermal cameras, Valais, Vaud, vineyards

No cocaine in my wine, please

15/10/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) -Magnetic Resonance Symmetry (MRS), the technique behind MRI scans done in hospitals could well be adopted by customs officials, if Swiss researchers in Lausanne and Geneva have their way. MRS has been shown by the group to be useful for scanning large cargoes and spotting cocaine that is being smuggled in wine […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: cocaine, customs, drug detection, EPFL, Giulio Gambarota, imports, law, society, Swiss research, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne

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