Apparatus, method and system for assessing field conditions

A system for identifying machine sink, the system comprising:

• one or more sensors disposed on target equipment, the one or more sensors detecting one or more site conditions at a target site in real-time and generating site condition data indicative of the one or more site conditions related to machine sink at the target site;
• a field condition determination component using a processor to execute a neural network model and predict, in real-time, a sink index based at least upon the site condition data, the sink index to quantify an extent to which the target equipment sinks into soil and creates a deep trench when traversing the target site;
• a machine sink map generation component generating a machine sink map of the target site for the target equipment based at least on the sink index;
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• a display receiving the machine sink map to render a visual representation of the machine sink map of the target site viewable by an operator of the target equipment.

A property machine sink management system for managing use of a vehicle, the system comprising:

• a machine sink management component used to identify appropriate times and locations for the vehicle to operate at respective one or more target sites based at least on a machine sink map that includes the one or more target sites;
• a machine sink map generation component that generates the machine sink map based at least on:
• sink indices for the respective one or more target sites;
• real-time machine sink data for at least one of the one or more target sites;
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• equipment identification data indicative of the vehicle;
• a field condition determination component using a processor to execute a neural network model to predict the sink indices based at least on:
• location data indicative of a location of the one or more target sites;
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• soil data indicative of soil conditions at the respective one or more target sites, wherein a sink index within the sink indices quantifies an extent to which the vehicle sinks into soil when traversing one of the one or more target sites;
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• a field condition analyzing component including one or more sensors disposed on the vehicle to detect one or more site conditions in real-time, the site conditions related to the sink indices for the at least one of the one or more target sites.