System for Integrated Utilization of Data to Identify, Characterize, and Support Successful Farm and Land Use Operations

• US 20090313215A1
• Filed: 12/05/2006
• Published: 12/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Visual Farms, LLC
• Original Assignee: Oneimage LLC
• Inventors: Thoen, William L., Maizel, Margaret Stewart
• Granted Patent: US 7,991,754 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals

Abstract

Computer configurations, search processors (2), software, and methods of viewing and analyzing information regarding agriculture or land use automatically located relationally-linked agronomic entities with both real (18) and virtual (8) displays. Relational linking exist through broad assessment of commonality information with fuzzy logic heuristics. Dynamic link presentation (6) can exist with congregated and hierarchical information displays (29) such as at the farm level, at a location level, at a physically aggregated parcel level with hierarchical display of farms or agronomic entity ownership, management, organization, and crop usages that afford users an unprecedented series of views into the businesses of land use, food production, and resource conservation. A meta-syntactic agronomic information generator (31) can facilitate imputed information through the integration of multiple databases (32). Predictive and application-specific configurations can allow at-a-glance understanding of agronomic organizations and agronomic decision-making to see where to most optimally devote resources for higher success or efficiency.

Claims

1. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information comprising the steps of:

identifying an initial agronomic target;

requesting information on said initial agronomic target;

locating at least some information on said initial agronomic target;

establishing an information set for said initial agronomic target;

automatically searching for information on at least one additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity;

locating at least some information on said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity;

establishing an information set on at least one additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity; and

dynamically linking information from both said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity;

congregating at least some information on both said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity by ascertaining at least some commonality information between said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity;

simultaneously hierarchically displaying real and virtual land use information from said dynamically linked initial agronomic target and said dynamically linked additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity.

2. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 1 wherein said step of congregating at least some information on both said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity comprises the step of creating meta-syntactic agronomic information from said information set for said initial agronomic target and said information set for said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity.

3. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 2 wherein said step of creating meta-syntactic agronomic information from said information set for said initial agronomic target and said information set for said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity comprises the step of conducting a multiple agronomic information database comparison relative to information on said initial agronomic target and information on said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity.

4. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 3 wherein said step of conducting a multiple agronomic information database comparison relative to information on said initial agronomic target and information on said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity comprises the step of accomplishing a comparative inconsistency check between multiple agronomic information databases.

5. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 3 wherein said step of conducting a multiple agronomic information database comparison relative to information on said initial agronomic target and information on said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity comprises the step of accomplishing a comparative unavailability check between multiple agronomic information databases.

6. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 2 wherein said step of creating meta-syntactic agronomic information from said information set for said initial agronomic target and said information set for said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity comprises the step of imputing a boundary for at least one of said initial agronomic target or at least one said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity.

7. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 1 wherein said step of providing at least some hierarchical information on said initial agronomic target comprises the step of hierarchically displaying at least some information selected from a group consisting of:

acreage information,

crop information, and

conservation information.

8. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 7 wherein said step of providing at least some hierarchical information on said initial agronomic target comprises a step selected from a group consisting of:

displaying geo-spatial bar graph information,

displaying color coded geo-spatial information, and

displaying color coded geo-spatial bar graph information.

9. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 1, 7, or 8 wherein said step of automatically searching for information on at least one additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity comprises the step of conducting a search for inductively linked information.

10. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 9 wherein said step of conducting a search for inductively linked information comprises the step of conducting a fuzzy logic data similarity comparison between said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity.

11. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 10 wherein said step of conducting a fuzzy logic data similarity comparison between said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity comprises the step of conducting a fuzzy logic geo-spatial data similarity comparison between said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity.

12. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 10 wherein said step of conducting a fuzzy logic data similarity comparison between said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity comprises the step of conducting a fuzzy logic data similarity comparison between information on said initial agronomic target and information on said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity selected from a group consisting of:

parcel identification information,

farm identification information,

physically aggregated parcel information,

physically aggregated parcel component information,

ownership information, and

land management information.

13. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 1 wherein said step of simultaneously displaying real and virtual land use information comprises the step of displaying a geo-spatial agronomic image.

14. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 13 wherein said step of displaying a geo-spatial agronomic image comprises the step of simultaneously displaying multiple zoomed geo-spatial agronomic images.

15. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information as described in claim 14 and further comprising the step of displaying tabulated data corresponding to at least one of said geo-spatial agronomic images.

16. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information comprising the steps of:

identifying an initial agronomic target;

requesting information on said initial agronomic target;

locating at least some information on said initial agronomic target;

establishing an information set for said initial agronomic target;

automatically searching for information on at least one additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity;

locating at least some information on said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity;

establishing an information set on at least one additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity; and

providing at least some information on both said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity.

17-76. -76. (canceled)

77. A method of automatically establishing enhanced agronomic information comprising the steps of:

identifying an initial agronomic target for a desired interaction environment;

obtaining initial interaction environment information useful in said interaction environment for said initial agronomic target;

identifying agronomic expansion criteria correlated with both said initial agronomic target and said interaction environment;

searching within said agronomic expansion criteria for interaction environment auxiliary information on at least one additional relationally-linked agronomic entity;

locating at least some interaction environment auxiliary information involving said additional relationally-linked agronomic entity;

correlating said interaction environment initial information with said interaction environment auxiliary information to create an interaction environment correlative information presentment; and

providing at least some information resulting from said interaction environment correlative information presentment.

78-133. -133. (canceled)

134. An automated agronomic relational information creation system comprising:

an initial agronomic target identification entry;

a relationally-linked agronomic search processor responsive to said initial agronomic target identification entry;

at least one agronomic information dataset to which said initial agronomic target identification entry and said relationally-linked agronomic search processor are responsive;

a multiple agronomic entity data accumulator responsive to said relationally-linked agronomic search processor and configured to establish an information set on both said initial agronomic target identification entry and at least one additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity; and

an agronomic data output responsive to said multiple agronomic entity data accumulator.

135-194. -194. (canceled)

195. An automated agronomic information enhancement system comprising:

an initial agronomic target identification entry;

an agronomic expansion criteria designator;

a relationally-linked agronomic search processor responsive to said initial agronomic target identification entry and said agronomic expansion criteria designator and configured to generate interaction environment auxiliary information involving at least one additional relationally-linked agronomic entity;

at least one agronomic information dataset to which said initial agronomic target identification entry and said relationally-linked agronomic search processor are responsive;

a multiple agronomic entity data correlation processor responsive to said relationally-linked agronomic search processor configured to establish an interaction environment correlative information presentment correlated with said initial agronomic target and said interaction environment auxiliary information; and

an agronomic data output responsive to said multiple agronomic entity data correlation processor;

dynamically linking information from both said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity;

wherein said step of dynamically linking information from both said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity comprises the step of dynamically displaying information from both said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity;

wherein said step of dynamically displaying information from both said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity comprises a step selected from a group consisting of;

dynamically displaying real land use information,

dynamically displaying real information,

dynamically displaying satellite information,

dynamically displaying public land record information,

dynamically displaying virtual land use information,

dynamically displaying virtual information,

dynamically displaying ownership information,

dynamically displaying composite ownership information,

dynamically displaying tenure information,

dynamically displaying livestock information,

dynamically displaying land use information,

dynamically displaying composite land use information,

dynamically displaying land management information,

dynamically displaying composite land management information,

dynamically displaying farm identification information,

dynamically displaying physically aggregated parcel information,

dynamically displaying physically aggregated parcel component information,

dynamically displaying land-based locational information,

dynamically displaying crop planting information,

dynamically displaying crop harvest information,

dynamically displaying crop growth information,

dynamically displaying field information, and

dynamically displaying tabular land use information; and

wherein said step of providing at least some information on both said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity comprises the step of congregating at least some information on both said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity

196-256. -256. (canceled)

257. A method of automatically establishing agronomically relational information comprising the steps of:

identifying an initial agronomic target;

requesting information on said initial agronomic target;

locating at least some information on said initial agronomic target;

establishing an information set for said initial agronomic target;

automatically searching for information on at least one additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity;

locating at least some information on said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity;

establishing an information set on at least one additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity; and

creating meta-syntactic agronomic information from said information set for said initial agronomic target and said information set for said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity;

dynamically displaying information from both said initial agronomic target and said additional, relationally-linked agronomic entity comprising a step selected from a group consisting of;

dynamically displaying real land use information,

dynamically displaying real information,

dynamically displaying satellite information,

dynamically displaying public land record information,

dynamically displaying virtual land use information,

dynamically displaying virtual information,

dynamically displaying ownership information,

dynamically displaying composite ownership information,

dynamically displaying tenure information,

dynamically displaying livestock information,

dynamically displaying land use information,

dynamically displaying composite land use information,

dynamically displaying land management information,

dynamically displaying composite land management information,

dynamically displaying farm identification information,

dynamically displaying physically aggregated parcel information,

dynamically displaying physically aggregated parcel component information,

dynamically displaying land-based locational information,

dynamically displaying crop planting information,

dynamically displaying crop harvest information,

dynamically displaying crop growth information,

dynamically displaying field information, and

dynamically displaying tabular land use information.