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Vineyard classification is an important process within viticulture-related decision-support systems. Indeed, it improves grapevine vegetation detection, enabling both the assessment of vineyard vegetative properties and the optimization of in-field management tasks. Aerial data acquired by sensors coupled to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may be used to achieve it. Flight campaigns were conducted to acquire both RGB and multispectral data from three vineyards located in Portugal and in Italy. Red, green, blue and near infrared orthorectified mosaics resulted from the photogrammetric processing of the acquired data. They were then used to calculate RGB and multispectral vegetation indices, as well as a crop surface model (CSM). Three different supervised machine learning (ML) approaches-support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF) and artificial neural network (ANN)-were trained to classify elements present within each vineyard into one of four classes: grapevine, shadow, soil and other vegetation. The trained models were then used to classify vineyards objects, generated from an object-based image analysis (OBIA) approach, into the four classes. Classification outcomes were compared with an automatic point-cloud classification approach and threshold-based approaches. Results shown that ANN provided a better overall classification performance, regardless of the type of features used. Features based on RGB data showed better performance than the ones based only on multispectral data. However, a higher performance was achieved when using features from both sensors. The methods presented in this study that resort to data acquired from different sensors are suitable to be used in the vineyard classification process. Furthermore, they also may be applied in other land use classification scenarios.

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Hyperspectral aerial imagery is becoming increasingly available due to both technology evolution and a somewhat affordable price tag. However, selecting a proper UAV + hyperspectral sensor combo to use in specific contexts is still challenging and lacks proper documental support. While selecting an UAV is more straightforward as it mostly relates with sensor compatibility, autonomy, reliability and cost, a hyperspectral sensor has much more to be considered. This note provides an assessment of two hyperspectral sensors (push-broom and snapshot) regarding practicality and suitability, within a precision viticulture context. The aim is to provide researchers, agronomists, winegrowers and UAV pilots with dependable data collection protocols and methods, enabling them to achieve faster processing techniques and helping to integrate multiple data sources. Furthermore, both the benefits and drawbacks of using each technology within a precision viticulture context are also highlighted. Hyperspectral sensors, UAVs, flight operations, and the processing methodology for each imaging type' datasets are presented through a qualitative and quantitative analysis. For this purpose, four vineyards in two countries were selected as case studies. This supports the extrapolation of both advantages and issues related with the two types of hyperspectral sensors used, in different contexts. Sensors' performance was compared through the evaluation of field operations complexity, processing time and qualitative accuracy of the results, namely the quality of the generated hyperspectral mosaics. The results shown an overall excellent geometrical quality, with no distortions or overlapping faults for both technologies, using the proposed mosaicking process and reconstruction. By resorting to the multi-site assessment, the qualitative and quantitative exchange of information throughout the UAV hyperspectral community is facilitated. In addition, all the major benefits and drawbacks of each hyperspectral sensor regarding its operation and data features are identified. Lastly, the operational complexity in the context of precision agriculture is also presented.

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In the upcoming years, European countries have to make a strong bet on solar energy. Small photovoltaic systems are able to provide energy for several applications like housing, traffic and street lighting, among others. This field is expected to have a big growth, thus taking advantage of the largest renewable energy source existing on the planet, the sun. This paper proposes a computational model able to simulate the behavior of a stand-alone photovoltaic system. The developed model allows to predict PV systems behavior, constituted by the panels, storage system, charge controller and inverter, having as input data the solar radiation and the temperature of the installation site. Several tests are presented that validates the reliability of the developed model.

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The grapevine variety plays an important role in wine chain production, thus identifying it is crucial for control activities. However, the specialists responsible for identifying the different varieties, mainly through visual analysis, are disappearing. In this scenario, Deep Learning (DL) classification techniques become a possible solution to handle professionals' scarcity. Nevertheless, previous experiments show that trained classification models use the background information to make decisions, which should be avoided. In this paper, we present a study allowing the assessment of removing background regions from the grapevine images in the improvement classification using DL models. The Xception model is trained with a normal dataset and its segmented version. The Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME), Grad-CAM, and Grad-CAM++ approaches are used to visualize the segmentation impact in classification decisions. F1-score of 0.92 and 0.94 were achieved, respectively, for segmented-dataset and normal-dataset trained models. Despite the model trained with the segmented-dataset to achieve a worse performance, the Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches showed that it looks into more reliable regions when making decisions.

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The grape variety plays an important role in the wine production chain, thus identifying it is crucial for production control. Ampelographers, professionals who identify grape varieties through plant visual analysis, are scarce, and molecular markers are expansive to identify grape varieties on a large scale. In this context, Deep Learning models become an effective way to handle ampelographers scarcity. In this work, we explore the benefit of using deep learning vision transformers architecture relative to conventional CNN to identify 12 grapevine varieties using leaf-centred RGB images acquired in the field. We train an Xception model as a baseline and four different configurations of the ViT_B model. The best model achieved 0.96 of F1-score, outperforming the state-of-the-art convolutional-based model in the used dataset.