CONFERENCE TOPICS AND THEMES

Themes

  • Proximal and remote sensors for precision management operations
  • Mechanisation, automation and robotics
  • Control systems for precision agriculture

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

  • Crop water stress sensing for improved management in orchards and vineyards
    Dr. Maria Victoria Gonzalez-Dugo, Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (IAS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Alameda del Obispo s/n, Cordoba, Spain
     
  • Digital twins for mitigation of orchard spray drift
    Dr. Liqi Han, QAAFI Centre for Horticultural Science, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane Queensland, Australia

  • Variable nitrogen management in vineyards
    Matteo Gatti, Department of Sustainable Crop Production., Université Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy
     
  • Precision viticulture for better vineyards
    Dr. Luis Gonzaga Santesteban, Dept. Agronomy, Biotech and Food Science, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

  • Bringing the packhouse to the orchard – a mango dreaming
    Prof. Kerry Walsh, Sensors Group, Central Queensland University, Kawana, Queensland, Australia

  • Automation and robots for tree fruit orchards
    Dr. Manoj Karkee, Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, Prosser, Washington, United States of America


The aim of the Symposium is to bring together scientists, industry experts and leading horticultural and viticultural growers working on disciplines related to Precision Management of Orchards and Vineyards to present and discuss the latest achievements in the following topics 

  • Irrigation and water relations
  • Yield, Traceability, Harvest Monitoring and Supply Chain Logistics
  • Mapping and Decision Support Platforms/Systems
  • Canopy management, Soil management, fertility and nutrition
  • Disease and pest detection/control
  • Fruit physiology, Growth, Ripening, Quality and Postharvest
  • Mechanisation, Automation, Robotic management—Harvesting, pruning,   thinning, spraying
  • SmartFarms, IoT, digital orchards and vineyards

program overview

PMOV2023 PROGRAM OVERVIEW


SUNDAY
3 DEC
MONDAY
4 DEC
TUESDAY
5 DEC
WEDNESDAY
6 DEC
THURSDAY
7 DEC
FRIDAY
8 DEC
Morning 1

ISHS Welcome, Opening, Irrigation
Digital Orchards & Vineyards
Technical excursion
Yield, Fruit Quality & Traceability
Mechanisation & Robotics
Morning 2

Irrigation
Digital Orchards & Vineyards
Technical excursion
Yield, Fruit Quality & Traceability
Mechanisation & Robotics
Afternoon 1

Technical tour:
Tatura SmartFarm
Canopy & Nutrition
Technical excursion
Yield, Fruit Quality & Traceability
Mechanisation & Robotics
Afternoon 2
Registration
Technical tour:
Tatura SmartFarm
Pests & Diseases
Technical excursion
Mechanisation & Robotics, ISHS business meeting
ISHS presentations & Close
Evening
Welcome Cocktail
 Orchard BBQ
Gala Dinner