To achieve a particular goal of improved yield or quality in vineyard management, it is essential to understand the impact of plant-soil-water dynamics at different phenological growth stages on plant physiology. This is not possible without the measurement of key variables, such as the effective plant rooting depth, daily crop-water use, the macroclimate and microclimate, soil type, and irrigation-system performance.This review provides an overview of Australian technological contributions to precision management of irrigated viticulture in the past 20 years. This involves an integrated approach of mapping soil spatial properties to generate irrigation management zones, evaluation of irrigation system performance and the use of near-continuous soil-water profile dynamics in making irrigation scheduling decisions and implementing irrigation management strategies, such as regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) and partial rootzone drying (PRD).
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