CASE STUDY : PINK LADY
Conception of a Decision Support System for irrigation management in Pink Lady orchards thanks to satellite imagery.
The Watershift project is positioned within an international partnership (France, Italy and Spain) around the production of Pink Lady apples with the aim of designing a Decision Support Tool (DST) for irrigation management in arboriculture.
This DST is based on satellite imagery and weather forecasting data in order to advise the producer on the quantity of water to be applied to each plot of his orchard without having to rely on the installation of sensors in every plot, which is costly and time-consuming.
In order to design this DST, an experiment was carried out on plots in the three countries using innovative connected sensors that measure the water potential of a tree continuously.
Location of the three experimental plots in France, Italy and Spain
Soil humidity sensors installed at 15 and 30cm depth 
Florapulse sensor 
Weather station and datalogger installed in the experimental plots 
Joan Lordan from E-Stratos in the Spanish experimental plot 
Inside of the datalogger: connexion of all sensors, the measurements are sent every hour to the servers 
Florapulse: sensor equipped with two microtensiometers to continuously measure the tree’s water potential 
Connected dendrometer: sensor measuring the variation in diameter of a branch and thus the stress of the tree 
Connected water meter to know the precise irrigation amount 
Michele Mariani from the Navarra Fondation in the Italian experimental plot 
Xavier Crété from Sudexpé in the french experimental plot
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