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US 10,475,212 B2Granted
Methods for generating soil maps and application prescriptions
AssigneeClimate LLC
InventorsDerek A. Sauder, Timothy A. Sauder, Steven D. Monday
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Abstract
Methods are provided for generating a prescription map for the application of crop inputs. In one method, the user draws a boundary on a map within a user interface and the system identifies relevant soil data and generates a soil map overlay and legend for changing the application prescription for various soils and soil conditions. In another method, the user instead drives a field boundary which is recorded on a planter monitor using a global positioning receiver, and the system generates a soil map and legend for changing the application prescription.
Claims19
A method of generating a soil data map, said method comprising:
- accessing a navigable aerial map of a geographic area which includes an image of a field of interest, said navigable aerial map having associated geographic location data which identifies said geographic location of said field of interest;
- navigating said navigable aerial map so as to cause display, through a user interface, of said field of interest on a user display screen;
- through said user interface, receiving user input defining a boundary of said field of interest by said geographic location data;
- accessing a soil data map associated with said field of interest based on said geographic location data, said soil data map identifying soil types of said field of interest;
- displaying on said user display screen, a portion of said soil data map as defined by said boundary;
- receiving user input selecting a particular seed population for a particular soil type of the identified soil types of said field of interest through said user interface;
- identifying a plurality of locations within said boundary of said field which comprise the particular soil type;
- in response to receiving said user input selecting the particular seed population, selecting the particular seed population for each of the plurality of locations identified as comprising the particular soil type and storing a seed planting prescription comprising the particular seed population for each of the plurality of locations comprising the particular soil type.
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A method for creating a crop input prescription, said method comprising:
- obtaining an aerial map of a geographic area which includes an image of a field of interest, said aerial map having associated geographic location data which identifies said geographic location of said field of interest;
- receiving, through a user interface, input selecting vertices to define a boundary around said field of interest;
- obtaining geographic locations corresponding to said vertices of said drawn boundary;
- obtaining a soil data map of soil types within said boundary defined by said geographic locations of said vertices, said soil data map having soil type polygons identifying different soil types within said boundary;
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- receiving user input selecting a particular seed population based on said soil type polygons;
- identifying a plurality of locations corresponding to soil type polygons which comprise the particular soil type;
- in response to receiving said user input selecting the particular seed population, selecting the particular seed population for each of the plurality of locations identified as comprising the particular soil type and storing the crop input prescription comprising the particular seed population for each of the plurality of locations corresponding to said soil type polygons which comprise the particular soil type.
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A method for creating a crop input prescription, said method comprising:
- obtaining a soil data map for a field of interest using a mobile device, said soil data map having soil type polygons identifying soil types of said field of interest;
- recording a field boundary of said field of interest using a global positioning receiver;
- identifying which of said soil type polygons are at least partially within said field boundary;
- associating a single management zone with each soil type polygon which is at least partially within said field boundary;
- displaying a control map identifying said management zone within said field boundary;
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- receiving user input selecting a particular seed population for a particular soil type of said soil types of said field of interest;
- identifying a plurality of locations corresponding to soil type polygons which comprise the particular soil type within said management zone;
- in response to receiving said user input selecting the particular seed population, selecting the particular seed population for each of the plurality of locations identified as comprising the particular soil type and storing the crop input prescription comprising the particular seed population for each of the plurality of locations corresponding to said soil type polygons which comprise the particular soil type.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.