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Smoke Gets in Your Wine － Verse 3
From Hyperspectral Insight to Handheld Impact: Year Three of Smoke Taint Detection Completed Bushfire smoke remains one of the most unpredictable and costly risks facing wine producers. While laboratory analysis can detect smoke taint compounds with precision, it is slow, expensive, and impractical for rapid decision-making in the vineyard. Over the past three seasons, Compolytics…
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Research Article: Predicting Cannabinoid Yield from Spectral Leaf Scans
We are pleased to see our latest co-authored paper published in Industrial Crops and Products: “Hyperspectral measurements of Cannabis sativa fan leaves during early floral development predict final cannabinoid yield.” The study shows that spectral-optical measurements of fan leaves, taken early in flowering, can already predict the final cannabinoid yield with high accuracy. Using hand-held hyperspectral sensing and machine learning models, the…
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Application Note: Nitrogen Monitoring in Agave
We are pleased to share the second ScanCorder Application Note, part of our growing series at Compolytics. This note explores how spectral vegetation indices (VIs) can be used to monitor nitrogen responses in Agave americana — a crop of rising importance for biofuels, fibres, and beverages.Using the ScanCorder GP-VNIR, researchers measured reflectance from agave leaves…
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Application Note: Smoke Taint Detection in Grapes
We are excited to announce the release of our first ScanCorder Application Note, kicking off a new series from Compolytics. This note demonstrates how spectral vegetation indices (VIs) measured with the ScanCorder GP-VNIR can detect smoke contamination in grapes — an increasingly relevant issue for vineyards facing bushfire risks.Using reflectance data from Shiraz grape bunches,…
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Smoke Gets in Your Wine － Verse 2
Bushfire smoke in vineyards can spell disaster for winemakers, as smoky, ashy characters in grapes can render wine unsaleable, leading to significant revenue losses. At Compolytics, in collaboration with The University of Adelaide and key industry partners from the Australian and US wine industries, we’re taking our mission to safeguard grape and wine quality to the next…
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Salicornia ScanCorder in Action
We developed together with the Salt Lab at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) a multispectral handheld sensor based on the Compolytics® ScanCorder platform to quantitatively measure various quality traits of Salicornia seeds. After about 9 months of development, including several measurement campaigns and machine learning-based modelling utilising our proprietary modelling platform, the…
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Smoke Gets in Your Wine
Vineyard exposure to bushfire smoke can taint grapes, causing significant revenue losses where smoky, ashy characters render wine unsaleable. In order to safeguard grape and wine quality and to predict the severity of smoke taint in grapes in real-time, Compolytics, as part of a joint project with The University of Adelaide, The Australian Wine Research…
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Systematic Assessment of Salicornia Seeds
Together with our R&D partner, the Center for Desert Agriculture at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, we have started the development of a tailored multispectral sensor for Salicornia seeds. Salicornia, also known as sea asparagus, is found in various marine habitats around the world and can be grown under…
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Research Article: Spectral Assessment of Cultivar and Sex of Cannabis Plants
Two of our senior scientists were involved in a systematic study on the non-invasive assessment of cultivar and sex of Cannabis sativa L. by means of hyperspectral sensing, which led to a high-ranking publication in Plant-Environment Interactions. Thank you to all co-authors for the excellent co-operation. Download the full paper.
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Innovation in Wool Classing
An Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)-funded project to develop a simple on-farm fibre measurement (OFFM) device is in the final stages of R&D, and in January the project was expanded to include follicle density. The COMPOLYTICS® ScanCorder platform is playing a key role in enabling Armidale-based start-up Zondii to revolutionise wool classing in Australia and worldwide.…
