US 2018/0121725 A1 · PLOT GAP IDENTIFICATION

Abstract

Field data is collected of a field. Each instance of field data contains information that can be used to determine a value corresponding to whether or not a plant is present or absent in a particular location and is referred to as a plant presence value. The plant presence values are aggregated using the position data associated with each instance of field data to generate aggregated plant presence values. Gaps between plots are identified based partly on variations in the plant presence values within the aggregated field data. Information known about a field can be used to heuristically identify gaps in a seed line or used to eliminate locations on a seed line that may look like a gap based on low plant presence values. The aggregated plant presence values can be presented as a heat map of plant presence values showing the relative plant density of the field.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving field data of a field, the field including a plurality of seed lines and one or more plots within the plurality of seed lines;
determining a plant presence value for each instance of field data, each instance of field data corresponding to a portion of the field and each plant presence value numerically representing a measure of plant matter associated with each portion of the field;
aggregating the plant presence values as a function of position within the field;
identifying one or more gaps in the aggregated plant presence values based at least in part on plant presence values below a plant presence value threshold;
and
segmenting the aggregated plant presence values into the one or more plots based on the one or more gaps.

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A method comprising:

receiving a plurality of instances of field data, the field including a plurality of seed lines of a field and each instance of field data representing a portion of the field;
determining a plant presence value for each of the instances of field data, the plant presence value numerically representing a degree of plant presence in the portion of the field associated with each of the instances field data;
aggregating the plant presence values based on the portions of the field represented by each of the plant presence values to generate a map representing plant presence values as a function of position within the field;
and
identifying a plurality of plots within the field based at least in part on plant presence values below a plant presence value threshold in the map.

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A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

receive field data of a field, the field including a plurality of seed lines and one or more plots within the plurality of seed lines;
determine a plant presence value for each instance of field data, each instance of field data corresponding to a portion of the field and each plant presence value numerically representing a measure of plant matter associated with each portion of the field;
aggregate the plant presence values as a function of position within the field;
identify one or more gaps in the aggregated plant presence values based at least in part on plant presence values below a plant presence value threshold;
and
segment the aggregated plant presence values into the one or more plots based on the one or more gaps.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Plot gap identification

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Abstract

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