Methods and systems for use in identifying features of crops

A system for use in identifying features(s) of cotton crops, the system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a computing device coupled to communication with the memory, the computing device configured to:
• access, from the memory, image data specific to a cotton plant, the image data including multiple images of the cotton plant and, for each image, depth data indicative of a range between surfaces of the cotton plant and one of multiple cameras, which captured the respective image, the image data further including tracking data for a surveyor computing device including the multiple cameras;
• stitch together multiple point clouds, the multiple point clouds defined by the multiple images of the cotton plant;
• identify brighter white segments and darker white segments in the stitched point clouds, the brighter white segments and darker white segments defining multiple pairs, each pair including one brighter white segment and one darker white segment;
• append a line between the brighter white segment and the darker white segment of each of the pairs;
• and
• determine a feature of the cotton plant based on the appended lines and/or the pairs.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including executable instructions for processing image data, which when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:

• access image data specific to a cotton plant, the image data including multiple images of the cotton plant and, for each image, depth data indicative of a range between surfaces of the cotton plant and one of multiple cameras, which captured the respective image, the image data further including tracking data for a surveyor computing device including the multiple cameras;
• stitch together multiple point clouds, the multiple point clouds defined by the multiple images of the cotton plant;
• identify brighter segments and darker segments in the stitched point clouds, the brighter segments and darker segments defining multiple pairs, each pair including one brighter segment and one darker segment;
• append a line between the brighter segment and the darker segment of each of the pairs;
• and
• determine a feature of the cotton plant based on the appended lines and/or the pairs.