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Smart Vineyards: AI helps monitor vine health and fight green leafhopper

April 10, 2025
Blog, News
Ines Ferreira

Imagine a future where drones and artificial intelligence work together to protect your vineyards. That's what the AI4Leafhopper project is making a reality!

Manisha Sirsat, a researcher on the AI4Leafhopper team, has developed two artificial intelligence models that analyze the aerial images captured by our latest generation drone... and these models make it possible:

geolocation of each vine
to know if there are vine failures
quickly identify “sick” vines”
optimize the application of treatments

The result? Growers can have a detailed view of the health of their vineyards, detect problems early and make more informed decisions.

Find out all about it here.

AI4Leafhopper is a project led by InPP and funded by the ICAERUS Horizon Europe program, which began in April 2024 and ended on April 30 with a final meeting involving the six European projects approved in the 1st edition of the ICAERUS program's PULL applications. The project team presented the AI-based models for detecting and monitoring the impact of the green leafhopper on vineyards.

Green leafhopper from the sky: Drones can help reveal the pest's impact on vineyards!

April 3, 2025
Blog, News
Ines Ferreira

The AI4Leafhopper project, InnovPlantProtect used a state-of-the-art drone to monitor the impact of the green leafhopper in the vineyards of our partners Reynolds Wine Growers and João Portugal Ramos. Although the results show that this advanced technology is more effective at detecting attacks at advanced stages, we are excited about the potential of this tool to provide valuable data for the management of this harmful insect.

We believe that with more research, we can refine our solution to detect early attacks and prevent significant damage to vineyards. Transforming the monitoring of this pest is where we want to go, always with the aim of protecting vineyards and guaranteeing the quality of production for winegrowers.

Over the next few days we'll be revealing everything that the AI4Leafhopper project is making a reality and how drones and artificial intelligence are working together to create a more sustainable future for viticulture. Stay tuned!

Find out all about it here.

AI4Leafhopper, funded by the ICAERUS Horizon Europe program, which began in April 2024, is now in its final stages. The development phase of the project, which took place in the field, is now over and the final stage is to present the solutions developed by our team on Portuguese soil to the market.

EVENTS

INPP CO-ORGANIZES EVENT ON TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION IN POTATO PRODUCTION IN PORTUGAL

October 2, 2024
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InPP co-organizes event on technology and innovation in potato production in Portugal

October 2, 2024
Blog
Ines Ferreira

With the theme “Technologies and Innovations in Potato Production”, the information session is organized by Porbatata - Associação da Batata de Portugal, in collaboration with InnovPlantProtect (InPP), and will take place on October 30 at the INIAV Auditorium in Elvas.

The aim of the event will be to explore the themes of biotechnological breeding and pest and disease monitoring. The program will feature technical presentations by various members of the InPP team, namely Pedro Fevereiro, CoLAB's executive director, and researcher Cláudia Rato Silva, who will talk about Biotechnological Breeding and Pest and Disease Resistance. Department directors Ilaria Marengo and Ricardo Ramiro will also take part in the initiative and talk about Pest and Disease Monitoring and Control.

This will be a unique opportunity for farmers, sector specialists and industry professionals to learn about and discuss the latest trends and innovations in industrial potato production.

See the full program in the image below. Registration for the event is free and can be done through the following registration link available here.

The initiative is co-financed by the PDR2020 - Mainland Rural Development Program.

Join this initiative, starting at 2:30 pm.

InPP was present at the CoLAB ForestWISE Open Day

September 30, 2024
Blog
Ines Ferreira

The ForestWISE Collaborative Laboratory (CoLAB) marked its sixth anniversary with an Open Day last Friday, September 27, which brought together the main players in the field. players in the fields of forestry and fire, including other CoLABs, companies, industries, universities, public bodies, associations and interface centers, among other strategic partners.

The initiative, which took place at the ForestWISE CoLAB headquarters on the campus of the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro in Vila Real, aimed to showcase the best of what is being done in the fields of forestry and fire in Portugal, through a display of the main products and services developed by this CoLAB over the last six years, whose main objective is to promote innovation, sustainability and knowledge transfer in the forestry sector.

At various themed stations distributed along an interactive circuit, participants were able to follow live demonstrations carried out by the Forest and Fire CoLAB team. Valuing and digitizing the forest, fire defence strategies, bioeconomy and participatory processes for integrated forest and fire management were some of the topics covered in this showcase of products and services, as well as projects coordinated by CoLAB.

The celebration was joined by the Secretary of State for the Economy, João Rui Ferreira, and the President of the Recovering Portugal Mission Structure, Fernando Alfaiate.