Systems and methods for soil clod detection

A system for determining one or more soil clods within a field, the system comprising:

• a field sensor configured to capture data of the field;
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• a computing system communicatively coupled to the field sensor, the computing system including a processor and associated memory, the memory storing instructions that, when implemented by the processor, configure the computing system to:
• receive the captured data from the field sensor of a first region of the field, the first region of the field including one or more first segments;
• determine a height between the field sensor and the field for each of the one or more first segments within the first region of the field;
• generate a first terrain plot indicative of a distance between the field sensor and each of the one or more first segments within the first region of the field;
• generate a first reference line based on the first terrain plot, wherein a first segment has a negative height relative to the reference line and a second segment has a positive height relative to the reference line;
• identify an object within the one or more first segments of the first terrain plot as a soil clod based on the second height exceeding a defined threshold;
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• control a user interface operably coupled with the computing system based on the identifying of the object.

A system for an agricultural machine, the system comprising:

• a field sensor configured to capture data of a region of a field;
• and
• a computing system communicatively coupled to the field sensor, the computing system including a processor and associated memory, the memory storing instructions that, when implemented by the processor, configure the computing system to:
• receive the captured data from the field sensor of the region of the field, the region of the field including one or more segments;
• generate a reference line, wherein a first segment has a negative height relative to the reference line and a second segment has a positive height relative to the reference line;
• identify the one or more segments of the region as an object based on the second height exceeding a defined threshold from the reference line;
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• alter an operation of the agricultural machine based on the identification of the object.