Agricultural spatial data processing systems and methods

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9767521-B2
Application number	US-201414475431-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 2, 2014
Priority date	Aug 30, 2013
Publication date	Sep 19, 2017
Grant date	Sep 19, 2017

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for correlating data from agricultural operations and displaying the resulting correlations. In some embodiments, data is gathered during two agricultural operations, a bitmap is rendered of the first operation, and second operation data from a live location is associated with a bitmap value at coordinates associated with the live location.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of correlating data during a first agricultural operation and a second agricultural operation, comprising:
receiving, from one or more sensors mounted in a planter unit, first data at a first plurality of geo-referenced locations during the first agricultural operation, wherein the receiving occurs while a planting operation is in progress, and wherein said first data comprises planting data from the one or more sensors mounted in the planter unit;
rendering a first bitmap of said first data comprising planting data associated with said first plurality of geo-referenced locations of said first data; and
while a harvesting operation is in progress during the second agricultural operation:
receiving, at regular intervals, from one or more sensors mounted in a harvest unit performing a harvesting operation, second data comprising a set of data packets at a second plurality of geo-referenced location, wherein said second data comprises live harvest yield data from the one or more sensors mounted in the harvest unit performing the harvesting operation, and wherein the second plurality of geo-referenced locations corresponds to combine head swath locations;
rendering a second bitmap of said second data, wherein, at bitmap coordinates corresponding to said second plurality of geo-referenced locations, bitmap values correspond to said second data received at said second plurality of geo-referenced locations;
determining usability of said bitmap values, wherein the usability is based on whether, for a bitmap value corresponding to a geo-referenced location in the first bitmap, there is at least a threshold number of combine head swath locations associated with the bitmap value; and
generating a display map screen comprising the rendered first and second bitmaps, wherein, for bitmap locations that are determined to have usable bitmap values, the values of the received planting data and the received live harvest yield data are displayed in adjacent windows for a same set of geo-referenced locations.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said harvest yield data includes a plurality of combine head swath locations.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
associating each of said plurality of combine head swath locations with a planting map tile.

4. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
converting each of said plurality of combine head swath locations to bitmap space coordinates.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
obtaining bitmap values at said bitmap space coordinates.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
determining a combined planting data value applicable to all of said combine head swath locations for a single combine head position.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
associating said combined planting data value with a planting data set.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
adding a harvest metric to a cumulative harvest metric associated with said combined planting data value.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
displaying a correlation of planting data sets with cumulative harvest metrics.

10. A method of correlating data during a first agricultural operation and a second agricultural operation, comprising:
receiving, from one or more sensors mounted in a planter unit, first data associated with a first plurality of geo-referenced locations during the first agricultural operation, wherein the receiving occurs while a planting operation is in progress, and wherein said first data comprises planting data from the one or more sensors mounted in the planter unit;
rendering a first map of said first data comprising planting data associated with said first plurality of geo-referenced locations of the said first data; and
while a harvesting operation is in progress during the second agricultural operation:
receiving, at regular intervals, from one or more sensors mounted in a harvest unit performing a harvesting operation, second data comprising a set of data packets at a second plurality of geo-referenced locations, wherein said second data comprises live harvest yield data from the one or more sensors mounted in the harvest unit performing the harvesting operation, and wherein the second plurality of geo-referenced locations corresponds to combine head swath locations;
rendering a second map of said second data, wherein, at map coordinates corresponding to said second plurality of geo-referenced locations, map values correspond to said second data received at said second plurality of geo-referenced locations;
determining the usability of said map values, wherein the usability is based on whether, for a map value corresponding to a geo-referenced location in the first map, there is at least a threshold value of combine head swath locations associated with the map value; and
generating a display map screen comprising the rendered first and second maps, wherein, for map locations that are determined to have usable map values, the values of the received planting data and the received live harvest yield data are displayed in adjacent windows for a same set of geo-referenced locations.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
associating each of said first plurality of locations with a map tile of said map.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
determining a combined second operation data value applicable to all of said first plurality of locations for a single position reached during said second operation.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
associating said combined second operation data value with a first operation data set.

14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:
displaying a correlation of said combined second operation data value with said first operation data set.

15. The method of claim 10 , wherein said harvest data includes a plurality of combine head locations.

16. A method of correlating data during a first agricultural operation and a second agricultural operation, comprising:
receiving, from one or more sensors mounted in a planter unit, first data at a first plurality of geo-referenced locations during the first agricultural operation, wherein the receiving occurs while a planting operation is in progress, and wherein said first data comprises planting data from the one or more sensors mounted in the planter unit;
while a harvesting operation is in progress during the second agricultural operation:
receiving, at regular intervals, from one or more sensors mounted in a harvest unit performing a harvesting operation, second data comprising a set of data packets at a second plurality of geo-referenced locations, wherein said second data comprises live harvest yield data from the one or more sensors mounted in the harvest unit performing the harvesting operation, and wherein the second plurality of geo-referenced locations corresponds to combine head swath locations;
determine the usability of said first data, wherein the usability is based on whether, for a first data value corresponding to a geo-referenced location in the first plurality of geo-referenced locations, there is at least a threshold number of combine head swath locations associated with the first data value; and
determining, for geo-referenced locations that are determined to have usable first data values:
a correlation between the said first data and said second data, wherein the correlation associates values of the received planting data and the received live harvest yield data for a same geo-referenced location; and
generating a display of the correl

Assignees

• Climate Corp

Inventors

• Stuber Jakob
• Reddy Tim

Classifications

• G06Q50/02 Primary

  Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining · CPC title