Precision agriculture using scene matching
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorEric Taipale
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Abstract
Methods and systems for use in precision agriculture that use scene comparison to determine a match between a current captured scene by a scene capture system on a precision agriculture machine and an off-platform previously captured scene captured by an off-platform scene capture system separate from the precision agriculture machine. The scenes include at least one item of interest and one or more additional features. When a match between scenes is determined, the precision agriculture machine is used to take an action that impacts the at least one item of interest in the agricultural field.
Claims18
A precision agriculture method, comprising:
- capturing a current scene of an agricultural field using an on-platform scene capture system mounted on a precision agriculture machine located in the agricultural field, the captured current scene including at least one item of interest, and the precision agriculture machine includes previously captured scenes of the agricultural field that are stored on the precision agriculture machine;
- providing the captured current scene to a computerized scene comparison system on the precision agriculture machine, and using the computerized scene comparison system to compare the captured current scene to the previously captured scenes of the agricultural field to determine a match between the captured current scene and one of the previously captured scenes;
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- when a match is determined, using the precision agriculture machine to take an action that impacts the at least one item of interest in the agricultural field.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.