Vineyards' Integrated Smart Climate Application (VISCA)

The main objective of the project is making South-European wine industries resilient to climate changes, while minimizing costs and risks through an improvement of the production management (quality and quantity of final product). This objective will be achieved with the integration of climatic data, phenological, irrigation models, and end-users’ requirements into a Decision Support System (DSS) co-designed with wine producers from Spain, Italy and Portugal. VISCA will help to design medium- and long-term adaptation strategies to climate change on vineyards and will supply well-founded decisions of specific aspects of crop planning (e.g., budburst, harvesting, defoliation, minimum water needs), and suggestions for preventive actions against extreme events and long-term suitability maps.

ECCA 2021 - Climate Adaptation solutions video - VISCA