Soil and topography surveying
First Claim
1. A method of characterizing subsurface conditions in a selected geographic region previously associated as a whole with a specific subsurface material characteristic reference profile, the method comprising deploying a sensing tool at a selected position within the geographic region, the tool constructed to be responsive to a selected subsurface material attribute;
- determining, from a signal received from the deployed tool, a depth-referenced subsurface material characteristic at the selected position;
comparing the determined subsurface material characteristic to the subsurface material characteristic reference profile associated with the geographic region to determine a correlation between the subsurface material characteristic reference profile and the depth-referenced subsurface material characteristic as determined from the signal received from the deployed tool; and
then deciding whether to deploy the tool at another position within said geographic region by considering the correlation determined from said selected position.
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Abstract
Methods of characterizing subsurface conditions in a selected geographic region previously associated as a whole with a specific subsurface material characteristic reference profile such as from a USDA-NRCS soil survey. The method includes deploying a sensing tool at selected positions within the geographic region to determine a depth-referenced subsurface material characteristic such as soil type or strata, comparing the determined subsurface material characteristic to the subsurface material characteristic reference profile associated with the geographic region to determine a correlation between the subsurface material characteristic reference profile and the depth-referenced subsurface material characteristic, and then deciding whether to deploy the tool at another position, and at what optimum position to deploy the tool, by considering the correlation.
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21 Claims
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1. A method of characterizing subsurface conditions in a selected geographic region previously associated as a whole with a specific subsurface material characteristic reference profile, the method comprising
deploying a sensing tool at a selected position within the geographic region, the tool constructed to be responsive to a selected subsurface material attribute; -
determining, from a signal received from the deployed tool, a depth-referenced subsurface material characteristic at the selected position;
comparing the determined subsurface material characteristic to the subsurface material characteristic reference profile associated with the geographic region to determine a correlation between the subsurface material characteristic reference profile and the depth-referenced subsurface material characteristic as determined from the signal received from the deployed tool; and
thendeciding whether to deploy the tool at another position within said geographic region by considering the correlation determined from said selected position. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method of characterizing subsurface conditions in a selected geographic region previously associated as a whole with a specific subsurface soil characteristic reference profile, the method comprising
deploying a soil attribute sensing tool at a selected position within the geographic region; -
determining, from a signal received from the deployed tool, a depth-referenced soil characteristic at the selected position;
comparing the determined soil characteristic to the subsurface soil characteristic reference profile associated with the geographic region to determine a correlation between the soil characteristic reference profile and the depth-referenced soil characteristic as determined from the signal received from the deployed tool; and
selecting a next tool deployment location within the selected geographic region on a basis of said correlation. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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21-49. -49. (canceled)
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