{"id":24119,"date":"2014-02-03T09:48:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T14:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24119"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:19:26","slug":"new-technology-invades-the-vineyards-is-it-now-the-cote-du-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/03\/new-technology-invades-the-vineyards-is-it-now-the-cote-du-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"New technology invades the vineyards &#8211; is it now the C\u00f4te-du-Dr\u00f4ne?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kernelmag.com\/features\/report\/8628\/how-technology-is-transforming-the-wine-trade\/#\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Flanagan<\/a> talks about the most recent technological <font color=\"red\"><del datetime=\"2014-02-03T14:41:40+00:00\">intrusions into<\/del><\/font> innovations being introduced into traditional European winemaking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is a new age in winemaking. The old days of doing everything by hand is ending. And while large-scale harvesters and flood-lights might not be news, the vintners of tomorrow have a few tricks up their sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>And yet as advanced technology, the sort-of thing that requires a Masters of Science to understand, becomes available at lower prices (well, hovering among the thousands), vineyards in France and areas outside are adopting them.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps least surprising, if you\u2019ve noticed a trend lately, is the addition of drones. Right now, they have a simple task: flying over vineyards, checking for damage or anything suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, however, they may be required to do more labour-intensive tasks such as vine maintenance, e.g. pruning and checking how ripe the grapes are. This, specifically, is the task of a little droid resembling a rover: it skates along the vineyard floor, analysing and remembering the details of the vines. If they\u2019re getting too long, the robot prunes them back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Flanagan talks about the most recent technological intrusions into innovations being introduced into traditional European winemaking: It is a new age in winemaking. The old days of doing everything by hand is ending. And while large-scale harvesters and flood-lights might not be news, the vintners of tomorrow have a few tricks up their sleeves. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1117,15,131],"tags":[36,149],"class_list":["post-24119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-technology","category-wine","tag-robots","tag-uav"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6h1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24120,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions\/24120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}