US: US to boldly go where no winemaker's been before
By just-drinks.com editorial team | 11 December 2001
US winemakers may soon benefit from the ultimate height advantage in the battle to capture the world's wine market, if initial tests of NASA-owned technology prove successful. The US's famous space agency is the unlikely new ally of California's wine industry, with plans to use satellite images to map out vineyards and pinpoint the location of the best crops.
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US winemakers may soon benefit from the ultimate height advantage in the battle to capture the world's wine market, if initial tests of NASA-owned technology prove successful. The US's famous space agency is the unlikely new ally of California's wine industry, with plans to use satellite images to map out vineyards and pinpoint the location of the best crops.

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