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US 2015/0310721 A1Published application
Determining in-season crop status in an agricultural crop and alerting users
AssigneeSuperior Edge, Inc.
InventorJerome Dale Johnson
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Abstract
A crop's status may be determined from analysis of information regarding the crop received from, for example, a user, an in-season data gathering source, a database, a data feed, an aerial sensor, a UAV, and/or a remote sensor via a communication network. The received data may be compared to, for example, a benchmark, a parameter, a previously determined crop status, and/or a baseline associated with the crop and the comparison may be scored. When the score exceeds a predetermined threshold, an alert may be generated and provided to a user via the communication network.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computer from a plurality of data sources, data associated with at least a portion of a field of plants, the data received from each of the plurality of data sources corresponding to a different one of a plurality of categories, the plurality of categories including at least a crop stress category, an added fertility category, and a soils category, each of the plurality of categories associated with one or more category-specific sub-categories corresponding to data received from at least one of the plurality of data sources;
- determining, by the computer, an overall score for the received data that indicates a nutrient status of at least the portion of the field of plants, wherein determining the overall score comprises:
- determining a sub-category score for each of the one or more sub-categories;
- applying a weighting factor to each sub-category score to determine a plurality of weighted sub-category scores;
- determining a sub-score for each category by aggregating the plurality of weighted sub-category scores corresponding to the respective category, each sub-score corresponding to a category-specific nutrient status of at least the portion of the field of plants;
- applying a weighting factor to each of the sub-scores to determine a plurality of weighted sub-scores;
- and
- aggregating the plurality of weighted sub-scores to determine the overall score;
- and
- outputting, by the computer, an alert to at least one of a user and a designated party in response to determining that the overall score satisfies a threshold value.
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A system comprising:
- at least one computer;
- an image sensor;
- and
- a crop status analyzer and alert generator executable by the at least one computer and configured to:
- receive, from a plurality of data sources that includes the image sensor, data for at least a portion of a field of crops, the data received from each of the plurality of data sources corresponding to one of a plurality of categories regarding a status of at least the portion of the field of crops, the plurality of categories including at least a crop stress category, an added fertility category, and a soils category, each of the plurality of categories associated with one or more_sub-categories;
- determine, based on the received data, an overall score corresponding to a nutrient status of at least the portion of the field of crops by at least determining a sub-category score for each of the one or more sub-categories, applying a weighting factor to each sub-category score to determine a plurality of weighted sub-category scores, aggregating the plurality of weighted sub-category scores corresponding to the respective category to determine a sub-score for each category, applying a weighting factor to each of the sub-scores to determine a plurality of weighted sub-scores, and aggregating the plurality of weighted sub-scores to determine the overall score;
- determine that the overall score is not included within a range of acceptable overall scores;
- and
- output an alert to at least one of a user and a designated party in response to determining that the overall score is not included within the range of acceptable overall scores.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computer from a plurality of data sources, data corresponding to crops, the data received from each of the plurality of data sources corresponding to a different one of a plurality of categories, the plurality of categories including at least a crop stress category, an added fertility category, and a soils category, each of the plurality of categories associated with one or more sub-categories;
- determining, by the computer, a category score for each category based on an aggregation of weighted sub-category scores corresponding to each sub-category associated with a respective category;
- applying, by the computer, a weight to each category score;
- aggregating, by the computer, the weighted category scores to determine a crop status score;
- and
- outputting, by the computer, an alert in response to determining that the crop status score deviates from a threshold value, the alert including a recommendation for corrective action to be taken that corresponds to an amount that the overall score deviates from the threshold value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.