Monitoring vine water status is a major issue for vineyard management because water constraints impact both the quality and the quantity of the harvest. Existing methods are often costly and complex to implement. ApeX-Vigne is a free mobile application developed to facilitate the collection and geolocation of 50 vine apex observations to characterise vine shoot growth and classify it into 3 growth categories. The application also provides the user with a simple estimate of vine water status based on shoot growth. This paper presents the results obtained over two seasons (2019 and 2020) after the launch of the Apex-Vigne application and its use over a large wine producing region in the south of France. An existing method was adapted for evaluating the interest of the application based on the number of installations and uninstallations. The results showed that the application had more than 1200 downloads and 6000 observations made in the 2020 season. Examples from the commercially collected data showed that ApeX-Vigne can be used as a tool for characterizing water stress at within-field and inter-field scales. Finally, it was also demonstrated that by enabling the massive and centralized collection of spatial field and within-field scale observations of shoot growth, the ApeX-Vigne data was able to characterise the spatial structure of vine water status at the regional scale. Access to this new source of information offers opportunities for the management of water resources at a regional scale as well as for site- and vineyard-specific management. These results also raised new research questions on the joint use of this new source of spatial data with other sources of high spatial resolution information.

监测葡萄藤的水质状况是葡萄园管理的主要问题，因为水的限制会影响收获的质量和数量。现有方法通常成本高昂且实施复杂。ApeX-Vigne是一款免费的移动应用程序，旨在促进50个葡萄树顶点观测的收集和地理定位，以表征葡萄树的生长并将其分为3个生长类别。该应用程序还为用户提供了基于枝条生长的藤本植物水分状况的简单估算。本文介绍了Apex-Vigne应用程序启动后两个季节（2019年和2020年）获得的结果，并将其用于法国南部的一个大型葡萄酒产区。现有的方法适用于根据安装和卸载的数量来评估应用程序的兴趣。结果表明，该应用程序在2020赛季下载了1200多次，进行了6000次观察。从商业收集的数据中得出的例子表明，ApeX-Vigne可用作表征田间和田间尺度水胁迫的工具。最后，它还表明，通过对空间增长和芽内生长的田间规模尺度观测进行大规模集中化收集，ApeX-Vigne数据能够表征区域尺度上葡萄藤水状况的空间结构。获得这种新的信息源为区域范围内的水资源管理以及针对特定地点和葡萄园的管理提供了机会。