Stonefruit orchard technology

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Technology in the Stonefruit research orchards at Tatura

Researchers at Agriculture Victoria will be testing technologies to determine their application to support research, automation and on-farm capability.

Agriculture research scientists: Dr Ian Goodwin, Dr Mark O'Connell, Dr Lexie McClymont, Dr Alessio Scalisi, Maddy Peavy

Technologies that will be utilised in the research orchards include:

LiDAR, vision sensors, artificial neural networks, thermal, and near-infrared and multi-sensor fusion,
drainage flux sensors and displacement transducers to measure fruit and trunk growth,
in-orchard RFID and NFC tree and fruit identification,
IoT enabled irrigation control and feedback sensors,
use of laser technology to write on fruit to enable research precision,
precision GPS (horizontal and vertical to identify fruit location)
the electronic nose and the DA-meter for fruit maturity and quality
satellite, UAVs, on-ground vehicles (potentially robot), handheld and permanently mounted technologies.

View Artificial Intelligence for irrigation

View AgTech - Mobile sensing in orchards (Cartographer)

View AgTech - fruit quality management sensor

View Sundial experiments

View Low-cost infrared thermography & unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)

View Assessment of a portable, non destructive, fruit firmness probe

View AgTech - fruit imaging and sorting