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US 9,745,060 B2Granted
Agricultural crop analysis drone
AssigneeTopcon Positioning Systems, Inc.
InventorsRaymond M. O'Connor, Ivan Giovanni Di Federico
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Abstract
A method and system utilizing one or more agricultural drones in combination with agricultural equipment, e.g., an agricultural boom sprayer, to evaluate the crops being farmed, and to improve the real-time delivery and dispensing of liquid from the sprayer including monitoring and verifying that the liquid is being dispensed correctly and/or in accordance with a desired distribution pattern or level.
Claims12
A method for agricultural farming, the method comprising:
- collecting information specific to a plurality of crops at a first agricultural drone;
- and
- transmitting the collected information in real-time from the first agricultural drone to an agricultural vehicle traversing the plurality of crops, the first agricultural drone operating independently from the agricultural vehicle;
- receiving, by the agricultural vehicle, the collected information from the first agricultural done in real-time;
- adjusting, in real-time, by the agricultural vehicle at least one operation of the agricultural vehicle using the received collected information from the first agricultural drone;
- and
- wherein the agricultural vehicle is a boom sprayer, the first agricultural drone is flying in a position in advance of the agricultural vehicle, and the adjusting, in real-time, by the boom sprayer includes a leveling of the boom sprayer wherein the leveling is achieved independent of any information collected by one or more sensors resident on the boom sprayer.
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A method for agricultural farming, the method comprising:
- collecting information specific to a plurality of crops at a first agricultural drone;
- and
- transmitting the collected information in real-time from the first agricultural drone to an agricultural vehicle traversing the plurality of crops, the first agricultural drone operating independently from the agricultural vehicle;
- receiving, by the agricultural vehicle, the collected information from the first agricultural done in real-time;
- adjusting, in real-time, by the agricultural vehicle at least one operation of the agricultural vehicle using the received collected information from the first agricultural drone;
- and
- analyzing, at the first agricultural drone, the collected information to identify individual crops of the plurality of crops suffering from drought or under-fertilization.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.