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November 03, 2009

Grapes in Space

Big Brother is watching your grapes.

There is a satellite up there somewhere hurtling through space assessing which bits of your vineyard are ready to harvest (whilst carefully avoiding all the other space junk mostly responsible for misdirecting us and brainwashing us in our own homes). 'The Oenoview System' does this by analysing the reflectivity of a vineyard, and translating the colours into meaningful data.

Some English vineyards have already signed up for the service.

Hmmm....call me a cynic, but whenever I fly home from abroad there is always dense depressing cloud cover. Lets hope the weather plays ball when the satellite passes over to take a snap, and that a grey image does not mean 'harvest now'. Presumably you would also have to wander into the vineyard to verify the data first hand, rather than put all of your precious grapes into one basket.

I like 'The Man from Del Monte' approach.

Maybe this satellite can also scan crowds to assess whether anyone has swine flu, and perhaps even let me know how I am feeling?

'There's an app for that' drones some smug developer...grrrrr.

There is a very well known wine called 'Campo Viejo' that may benefit from this high tech approach -

It is made in Spain's Rioja region in an ultra modern underground plant. As everything is automated you just have to push one big red button and you end up with 10,000 bottles per hour. The sort of place you may see Blofeld's cat. Adding the satellite to its armoury would nicely complete the picture.

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