Satellite images reveal how vigorously your vines are growing, plot by plot, patch by patch — often weeks before a stressed area would be visible walking the rows.
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Not every part of a vineyard grows the same way. Some patches push out dense, healthy canopy; others lag — thinner leaves, slower growth, early signs of stress. On foot, those differences can take weeks to become obvious. From satellite, they show up as a simple colour map: dark green where vines are thriving, yellow and orange where they're falling behind.
That map updates regularly through the season, so you're not just seeing a single snapshot — you're watching how each part of the vineyard is trending, block by block.
What this replaces
Instead of relying on spot checks as you walk a handful of rows, or only noticing a struggling patch once it's visibly behind, you get full-vineyard coverage every few days — so a problem in a corner you rarely visit shows up just as clearly as one by the gate.
Two ways we've tested whether this number actually means something.
Every few months we fly a drone over the same plots and compare its reading against the satellite-based estimate. Across four growing seasons, the two have consistently moved together — confidence that the number you get between drone flights is a reliable one.
In our longest-running partnership — with the Adega Cooperativa de Pinhel — the average vigor reading from April to September has risen and fallen in step with the tonnes of grapes actually harvested each year.
What grows between the rows can throw off a vigor reading if it's not told apart from the vines themselves — and it varies a lot from one region to another.
In dry-farmed vineyards around Pinhel, the ground between rows is often bare earth. That reads very differently from a leafy vine canopy, so it's easy to separate the two.
Around Bairrada, cover crops or grass often grow between the rows. Left unseparated, that green cover can make a struggling block of vines look healthier than it is.
Our process draws a boundary around each row of vines and reads the canopy on its own — so the vigor number you get reflects what the vines are doing, not what's growing (or not growing) in the gaps between them.
Same plot, same date. Left: a standard satellite reading, where each pixel covers about 100 square metres and blends vine and inter-row together. Right: our processing resolves the individual rows, which is what makes clean canopy/ground separation possible in the first place.
Vigor differences often show up in the imagery weeks before they're visible walking the rows.
Row-by-row separation means the reading reflects your vines, whatever's growing — or not — between them.
Season-average vigor has closely tracked actual harvest volumes in our longest-running vineyard partnership.
No sensors to install, no site visit required.
Regularly refreshed imagery covers your vineyard automatically, all season long.
Rows are separated from the ground between them, so the reading is about the vines specifically.
A clear, colour-coded picture of where vines are thriving and where they need attention.
We're expanding this service alongside our existing partnerships.
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