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Scouting system for an agricultural field

  • US 5,870,689 A
  • Filed: 11/22/1996
  • Issued: 02/09/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for scouting an agricultural field for different types of visible elements while work is being performed on the field, comprising:

  • a vehicle moveable over the field;

    an agricultural tool supported by the vehicle and configured to perform work on the field as the vehicle moves over the field;

    a sensing circuit supported by the vehicle and configured to generate characteristic signals representative of the work performed by the tool at a plurality of locations within the field;

    an input device supported by the vehicle and configured to generate scouting signals corresponding to visible elements located at a plurality of positions associated with the field;

    a location signal generation circuit supported by the vehicle and configured to receive positioning signals and to generate location signals therefrom;

    a control circuit coupled to the sensing circuit, the input device, and the location signal generation circuit, the control circuit configured to generate characteristic data representative of the work performed based upon the characteristic signals and to generate scouting data representative of the visible elements based upon the scouting signals, and to process the location signals to generate location data representative of the plurality of locations and to generate position data representative of the plurality of positions; and

    a digital memory coupled to the control circuit, the control circuit further configured to correlate the characteristic data with the respective location data and to correlate the scouting data with the respective position data, and to store the characteristic data with the correlated location data and the scouting data with the correlated position data in the digital memory.

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