Infoterra, a subsidiary of EADS Astrium, and the
Institut Coopératif du Vin (ICV) have developed Oenoview to offer the benefits
of space technology to professionals in the wine growing industry.
Oenoview is an extremely specialist service, based on
the analysis of satellite imagery, which carefully monitors vine growth and
identifies differences in grape quality from one plot of land to the next – or
even on the same plot. Oenoview is therefore tailor-made for wine growers
looking to offer customers the best quality wine.
Using innovative technology, Infoterra uses
high-resolution satellite imagery to generate
geographical data on vineyards – the number of leaves per square metre, the
density of vegetation cover, etc. The information is displayed on maps, and is
then analysed and discussed by wine growing specialists at the ICV. The primary
aim is to help wine growers manage their work effectively – in terms of
pruning, fertilising, stripping, etc. – and to reduce their production costs.
Oenoview allows the wine
grower to see the differences in grape quality and ripeness from one
plot of land to the next (or even within the same plot of land) – so they can harvest the grapes separately when different
varieties are ripe,. This results in high quality wines.
For Jean-Michel Darroy, CEO of Infoterra France, this
prize acknowledges the “research carried out by the whole team and the
first-rate partnership between Infoterra and ICV. There are also promising
signs on the sales front: after two years of tests, mainly in the
Languedoc-Roussillon region, Oenoview is now starting to take off in many other
French wine growing regions, in particular Bordeaux, and is catching the eye of
other wine producing countries.”
Oenoview® was developed as part of the
VINNOTEC collaborative research programme at the Q@LI-MEDiterranée competitiveness cluster (an
association of companies, research centres and educational institutions working
in partnership on innovative projects). The project received financial support
from Oséo (the French agency promoting growth and innovation at small and
medium sized companies), the Languedoc-Roussillon region, and the European
Regional Development Fund.
Infoterra
Infoterra, wholly owned by Europe’s
leading space company Astrium, is a leading provider of geo-information
products and services for managing the development, environment and security of
our changing world. With entities in the United
Kingdom, Germany,
France, Spain and Hungary, its customers include
international corporations, governments and authorities around the globe, and
organisations such as the European Commission (EC) and the European Space
Agency (ESA).
Infoterra
operates across a comprehensive range of markets - communications, environment,
security, agriculture, defence, oil & gas exploration and many more.
Furthermore, Infoterra holds the exclusive commercial exploitation rights for the
high-resolution radar satellite TerraSAR-X, and plays a leading role in
geo-information services within the European GMES initiative of the EC and ESA.
Infoterra, together with Spot Image, forms the the Earth Observation division
of Astrium Services.
Press Contact:
Fabienne Grazzini: 05 62 19 63 26
fabienne.grazzini@infoterra-global.com
Astrium
Astrium, a wholly owned subsidiary of EADS, is
dedicated to providing civil and defence space systems and services. In 2007,
Astrium had a turnover of €3.5 billion and 12,000 employees in France, Germany,
the United Kingdom, Spain and the Netherlands. Its three main areas
of activity are Astrium Space Transportation for launchers and orbital infrastructure,
Astrium Satellites for spacecraft and ground segment and its wholly owned
subsidiary Astrium Services for the development and delivery of satellite services.
EADS
is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2007,
EADS generated revenues of €39.1 billion and employed a workforce of more
than 116, 000.
Press contact:
Jeremy Close
(Astrium UK):
+44 (0)1 438 77 3872
www.astrium.eads.net
ICV
Jacques
Rousseau : +33 (0) 6 84 53 24 00
jrousseau@icv.fr
