SYSTEM FOR TRACKING CROP VARIETY IN A CROP FIELD

Fecha de publicación: 14/08/2024
Fuente: Wipo "precision agriculture"
Described herein are technologies for tracking crop variety in a field while harvesting a crop. In an embodiment, a camera (302 or 304) mounted to a harvester (300) captures images of a crop (600, 700, 800) and a computing system (200) determines characteristics of the crop (702, 704, 706, 708A, 804, 806, 808A) in the images (600, 700, 800) (such as its height, color, and density) (instructions 222). The aforesaid two steps occur continuously as the harvester (300) moves through a field. Also, while the harvester (300) moves through the field, the computing system (200) determines whether the determined characteristics deviate from known characteristics of a first variety of the crop (instructions 222). When the determined characteristics deviate from the know characteristics beyond a threshold, the portion of the images (600, 700, 800) containing the deviating characteristics is labeled as including a second variety of the crop (710) (instructions 222). Also, the images (600, 700, 800) are geotagged (712, 700, 800) and the computing system (200) generates a map (904) of the varieties of the crop based on the labeled and geotagged images (instructions 228).