Validation and implementation of an early warning system to reduce smoke impacts from prescribed burns and bushfires on agricultural industries in Victoria

This project will develop a fully integrated network of air quality sensors to provide real-time data on smoke dose and the risk of taint in winegrapes. Accurate prediction will enable the emergency sector to organise and conduct planned burns more effectively and with less risk to agricultural industries. Smoke taint from bushfires and planned burns causes the biggest loss to production for the Victorian and Australian wine industry due to its impact on the flavours in wine or the inability to market grapes from smoke-affected areas.