Resumen de A finer vintage
Stephen Nuske is a roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh PA who is leading a trial of an automated grape-counting system he hopes will help vineyard managers to produce better wine. To find out which parts of a vineyard might need extra pruning, watering or spraying with pesticide, growers need to know how much fruit is present, where it is and under how much foliage. Yet counting grapes in a huge vineyard is laborious and difficult, requiring workers to feel through the branches for each bunch. Nuske and his colleagues work at night to ensure that the light stays constant in the photos, and will gather about a terabyte of data over the next few hours. Placing these grapes on the laser scanner's 3D map of the field will reveal areas that look particularly thin, for instance, or which need pruning.
