Terroir from Space

Terroir from Space is tackling the increasing impact of climate change, which is globally disrupting traditional wine geographies. Accordingly, we are developing a service to support winegrowers and consortia in identifying unexploited planting sites optimal for high quality wine production, ensuring a sustainable production in the long run, assessing site exploitation risks and local parameters' evolution. Our solution relies on a predictive Artificial Intelligence model trained with Earth Observation data, in situ data and downscaled climate projections. We carefully assess the climatic risk and guide the customer in taking those strategic actions (e.g. the matching between identified site and most suitable vine variety), providing scientific-based added security to our customers’ investments, while boosting the implementation of environmental sustainability (lower need for water consumption and pesticides, biodiversity preservation). We ensure (wine)growers’ ability to continue producing, safeguarding the economic and social prosperity of those rural areas most affected by climate change. At the same time, our solution is suited to emerging terroirs benefiting from climatic shifts.

A dedicated online platform will support the provision of our core service - identification of optimal climate resilient sites for viticulture - paired with a constant monitoring for agronomic optimization via a subscription plan. As a scaling strategy, we will serve new segments such as insurance companies (an important actor along the agricultural value chain), which are definitely interested in the value provided by our service. Furthermore, we will extend our service to other high-value crops, affected as well by climatic shifts.