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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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Why Access to Many Vegetation Indices Matters in Plant Research
Vegetation indices (VIs) are a powerful way to translate optical measurements into meaningful plant traits. In practice, however, different crops, stress factors, growth stages, and research questions often call for different indices. There is no single “best” vegetation index — relevance always depends on the application. Having access to more than 145 vegetation indices from…
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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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Product Launch of ScanCorder VI-VNIR
This week was the big moment: the new ScanCorder VI-VNIR was officially launched and presented to a wide audience of experts at our stand at the European Plant Phenotyping Symposium in Bonn. Visitors to the stand were able to get hands-on experience with the new sensor and vegetation indices calculated in real-time using contrasting sorghum…
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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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Behind the Scenes: Validating Our New VI-VNIR Sensor
Vegetation indices are essential for understanding plant health, growth patterns, and stress factors － critical insights for agriculture, research, and beyond. At Compolytics, we continuously push the boundaries of what’s possible with spectral-optical sensing. Our latest innovation takes this even further. We’re excited to share a glimpse behind the scenes of our in-house validation process…
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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…
