Category: satellite

Vineyard management with geospatial technologies (Image courtesy www.efficientvineyard.com)

Satellite Imagery, Drones, and GIS in Vineyard Management

 mywinepal  March 4, 2023

When you think of viticulture, you probably think of people in the vineyards training the vines, thinning foliage, or green harvesting.  But there is more technology being used in vineyard management than you know.  Satellite imagery, drones, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are all tools that are more commonly used by viticulturists.  My career has been in geospatial technologies since…

Sentinel 2 image overview of Okanagan

A Birds Eye View of the 2018 Grape Growing Season for the North & Central Okanagan

 mywinepal  February 13, 2019

Have you ever wanted a bird’s eye view of the Okanagan?  Wondered what the grape growing season looked like from above? I’ve put together this interactive application using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery centered over Kelowna.  Penticton is just off the bottom of the image.  You can’t zoom into the images as it is just too big to view without specialized software…