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System and method for creating agricultural decision and application maps for automated agricultural machines

Assignee: AGCO Corp

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Filing: 2001-03-22

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Granted: 2003-08-12

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Expires: 2021-03-22

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Abstract

Abstract A system for creating application maps for controlling a dispensing apparatus based upon field data, the system including a system for maintaining field data. The field data may be georeferenced relative to geographic coordinates of the location of the field data. Application rate equations for correlating field data relative to desired output may be selectively defined based upon selected field data and desired output to produce application maps for a particular field. A processor is designed to selectively access field data for a particular field to execute application rate equations for the field data to produce an application map which may be used for variable rate application of material by dispensing apparatus based upon the selected field data and the desired output.

Inventors

👤 Joseph I. Hauwiller
👤 Youxuan Jin

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —

Jurisdiction US

Data Source google_patents

Last Synchronized 2026-11-09 12:14

CPC Classifications

A; A01; A01B; A01B79/00; A01B79/005

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 20

Claim 1

Independent Claim 100 words

A system for allowing a user to create application maps for variable rate application of material to an agricultural field based on selected field data, the system comprising: a data storage system for storing field data of the field, the field data including economic data; a user interface allowing a user to select a desired output for an area of the field; and a processor operably coupled to the data storage system and the user interface, wherein the processor is configured to create an application map of the area of the field based on field data and the desired output.

Claim 2

Independent Claim 100 words

Claim 3

Dependent Claim 34 words

The system of claim 1 wherein the application map comprises a representation of the area of the field and variable dispensing rates of a crop product by location necessary to achieve the desired output.

Claim 4

Dependent Claim 30 words

The system of claim 2 wherein the processor utilizes recommendation equations to calculate the necessary dispensing rates of the crop product by correlating selected field data and the desired output.

Claim 5

Dependent Claim 14 words

The system of claim 3 wherein field data comprises geographic data and attribute data.

Claim 6

Dependent Claim 26 words

The system of claim 4 wherein geographic data comprises soil characteristic data and the data storage system stores the soil characteristic data relative to geographic location.

Claim 7

Dependent Claim 20 words

The system of claim 5 wherein the recommendation equations define a relationship between soil characteristic data and field yield potential.

Claim 8

Dependent Claim 29 words

The system of claim 3 wherein the recommendation equations are stored in the data storage system and the user interface allows the user to select a desired recommendation equation.

Claim 9

Dependent Claim 17 words

The system of claim 3 wherein the user interface allows the user to define the recommendation equation.

Claim 10

Dependent Claim 13 words

The system of claim 1 wherein the desired output is a crop yield.

Claim 11

Dependent Claim 17 words

The system of claim 1 wherein the economic data includes crop input cost and crop selling price.

Claim 12

Independent Claim 114 words

A system for creating a variable rate crop product application map for use in an automated agricultural machine, the system comprising: a data storage system for storing field data and recommendation equations, wherein recommendation equations define a correlation between field data and crop yield, and wherein the field data including economic data; a user interface for allowing a user to define a field and set a desired crop yield goal for the field; and a processor operably coupled to the data storage system and the user interface which uses field data and recommendation equations to calculate dispensing rates of crop product and to create a variable rate application map for the user defined field.

Claim 13

Independent Claim 114 words

Claim 14

Dependent Claim 23 words

The system of claim 11 wherein field data comprises soil sample data stored by geographic location indicating the soil types of the field.

Claim 15

Dependent Claim 28 words

The system of claim 12 wherein the recommendation equation determines dispensing rates for crop products based on soil type and a defined yield potential for that soil type.

Claim 16

Dependent Claim 20 words

The system of claim 12 wherein the recommendation equation defines productivity for a particular crop based on the soil type.

Claim 17

Dependent Claim 27 words

The system of claim 12 wherein the user interface allows a user to assign different yield goals to different areas of the field having different soil types.

Claim 18

Dependent Claim 35 words

The system of claim 11 wherein the user interface allows a user to input agricultural products and treatments data and the processor creates the variable rate application map using the agricultural products and treatments data.

Claim 19

Dependent Claim 16 words

The system of claim 11 wherein the user defines the field by defining a field boundary.

Claim 20

Dependent Claim 17 words

The system of claim 11 wherein the economic data includes crop input cost and crop selling price.

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3.5 Years (Year 4)	2006-08-11	2007-02-10	2007-08-12	$2000.00	Window Closed / Lapsed
7.5 Years (Year 8)	2010-08-11	2011-02-10	2011-08-12	$3760.00	Window Closed / Lapsed
11.5 Years (Year 12)	2014-08-11	2015-02-10	2015-08-12	$7700.00	Window Closed / Lapsed

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