Italian Vineyard Mixes Satellite, Aerial Imagery To Monitor Harvest

Part of Frascati's Controlled Origin Denomination — "Denominazione d'Origine Controllata" or DOC in Italian, a wine's legally demarcated home region — was surveyed before and after the October harvest using airborne and satellite imagery under a European Space Agency (ESA) program. The...

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