Predictive machine characteristic map generation and control system

A computer implemented method of generating a functional predictive agricultural map, comprising:

• receiving a prior information map, an agricultural work machine, that indicates as a first agricultural characteristic, topographic characteristic values corresponding to different geographic locations in a field;
• detecting a geographic location of the agricultural work machine;
• detecting, with an in-situ sensor, a machine characteristic as a second agricultural characteristic corresponding to the geographic location;
• generating a predictive agricultural model that models a relationship between the first agricultural characteristic and the second agricultural characteristic;
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• controlling a predictive map generator to generate the functional predictive agricultural map of the field, that maps predictive values of the second agricultural characteristic to the different locations in the field based on the values of the first agricultural characteristic in the prior information map and the predictive agricultural model.

An agricultural work machine, comprising:

• a communication system that receives a topographic map that indicates topographic values corresponding to different geographic locations in a field;
• a geographic position sensor that detects a geographic location of the agricultural work machine;
• an in-situ sensor that detects a machine characteristic value, of a machine characteristic, corresponding to the geographic location;
• a predictive model generator that generates a predictive machine model that models a relationship between the topographic values and the machine characteristic based on a topographic value in the topographic map at the geographic location and the machine characteristic value of the machine characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor at the geographic location;
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• a predictive map generator that generates a functional predictive machine characteristic map of the field, that maps predictive machine characteristic values to the different locations in the field, based on the topographic values in the prior topographic map and based on the predictive machine model.

An agricultural system, comprising:

• a communication system that receives a topographic map that maps topographic values of a topographic characteristic to different geographic locations in a field;
• a geographic position sensor that detects a geographic location of an agricultural work machine;
• an in-situ sensor that detects a value of a machine characteristic corresponding to the geographic location;
• a predictive model generator that generates a predictive agricultural model that models a relationship between the topographic characteristic and the machine characteristic based on one of the topographic values of the topographic characteristic in the prior information map corresponding to the geographic location and the value of the machine characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor at the geographic location;
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• a predictive map generator that generates a functional predictive agricultural map of the field that maps predictive values of the machine characteristic to the different geographic locations in the field based on the topographic values in the prior information map and based on the predictive agricultural model.