System and method for managing geospatially-enhanced agronomic data

• US 20050096849A1
• Filed: 11/03/2004
• Published: 05/05/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronic Data Access Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Electronic Data Access Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Sorrells, Robert Joe
• Application Number:
  US10/980,411
• Publication Number:
  US 20050096849A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/19
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A system and method for collecting, interpreting and disseminating agronomic geospatially-enhanced data is disclosed. The system collects and aggregates agronomic data based on a commodity, such as geospatially-enhanced data, from a variety of local and remote data sources. The system layers the data to form a matrix of data for the particular commodity. Utilizing the method and system, users can access geospatially-enhanced data from the system for a variety of purposes, such as product improvement and improved market efficiencies. Users of the system and method may easily be both producers and consumers of data.

Claims

1. Software for managing agronomic data operable to:

receive first agronomic data in a first format from a first of a plurality of clients;

receive second agronomic data in a second format from a second of the plurality of clients;

store the received first and second agronomic data in a data store; and

correlate the agronomic data with geospatial information.

2. The software of claim 1, further operable to normalize the received first and second agronomic data prior to storage in the data store.

3. The software of claim 2, the first format of the first agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, the second format of the second agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, and the software operable to normalize the received first and second agronomic data prior to storage in the data store comprising software operable to convert a first attribute of the first agronomic data into a new attribute based on the data store.

4. The software of claim 2, the first format of the first agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, the second format of the second agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, and the software operable to normalize the received first and second agronomic data prior to storage in the data store comprising software operable to link a first attribute of the second agronomic data to a first attribute of the first agronomic data.

5. The software of claim 4, further operable to layer the received first agronomic data and the second agronomic data in the data store using the linked attribute.

6. The software of claim 1, further operable to retrieve the geospatial information from a remote data source.

7. The software of claim 6, the retrieved geospatial information comprising Shape files.

8. The software of claim 1, the first agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, at least one of the attributes comprising a geospatial attribute, and the software further operable to link the first agronomic data to the geospatial information based, at least in part, on the geospatial attribute.

9. The software of claim 1, the first client comprising an agricultural product manufacturer and the first agronomic data comprising bar codes and associated product descriptions.

10. The software of claim 9, the second client comprising an agricultural product distributor and the second agronomic data comprising point-of-sale information and at least one of the bar codes.

11. The software of claim 10, further operable to:

receive third agronomic data in a third format from a third of the plurality of clients, the third client comprising a farmer and the third agronomic data comprising crop profile, fertilizer usage, geospatial farm data, and environmental information; and

store the received third agronomic data in the data store.

12. The software of claim 11, further operable to:

receive fourth agronomic data in a fourth format from a fourth of the plurality of clients, the fourth client comprising a food processing entity; and

store the received fourth agronomic data in the data store.

13. The software of claim 1, further operable to communicate data from the data store to a governmental agency in response to a request from one of the clients.

14. The software of claim 1, further operable to generate a report illustrating the life cycle of an agricultural product based on the data store in response to a request from one of the clients.

15. A method for managing agronomic data comprising:

receiving first agronomic data in a first format from a first of a plurality of clients;

receiving second agronomic data in a second format from a second of the plurality of clients;

storing the received first and second agronomic data in a data store; and

correlating the agronomic data with geospatial information.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising normalizing the received first and second agronomic data prior to storage in the data store.

17. The method of claim 16, the first format of the first agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, the second format of the second agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, and wherein normalizing the received first and second agronomic data prior to storage in the data store comprises converting a first attribute of the first agronomic data into a new attribute based on the data store.

18. The method of claim 16, the first format of the first agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, the second format of the second agronomic data comprises a plurality of attributes, and wherein normalizing the received first and second agronomic data prior to storage in the data store comprising linking a first attribute of the second agronomic data to a first attribute of the first agronomic data.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising layering the received first agronomic data and the second agronomic data in the data store using the linked attribute.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising retrieving the geospatial information from a remote data source.

21. The method of claim 20, the retrieved geospatial information comprising Shape files.

23. The method of claim 15, the first client comprising an agricultural product manufacturer and the first agronomic data comprising bar codes and associated product descriptions.

24. The method of claim 23, the second client comprising an agricultural product distributor and the second agronomic data comprising point-of-sale information and at least one of the bar codes.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

receiving third agronomic data in a third format from a third of the plurality of clients using a personal data assistant (PDA), the third client comprising a farmer and the third agronomic data comprising crop profile, fertilizer usage, geospatial farm data, and environmental information; and

storing the received third agronomic data in the data store.

26. The method of claim 25, further comprising:

receiving fourth agronomic data in a fourth format from a fourth of the plurality of clients, the fourth client comprising a food processing entity; and

storing the received fourth agronomic data in the data store.

27. The method of claim 15, further comprising communicating data from the data store to a governmental agency in response to a request from one of the clients.

28. The method of claim 15, further comprising generating a report illustrating the life cycle of an agricultural product based on the data store in response to a request from one of the clients.

22. The method of 15, the first agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, at least one of the attributes comprising a geospatial attribute, and the method further comprising linking the first agronomic data to the geospatial information based, at least in part, on the geospatial attribute.

29. A system for managing agronomic data comprising:

memory storing an agronomic data store; and

one or more processors operable to;

receive first agronomic data in a first format from a first of a plurality of clients;

receive second agronomic data in a second format from a second of the plurality of clients;

store the received first and second agronomic data in the data store; and

correlate the agronomic data with geospatial information.

30. The system of claim 29, the processors further operable to normalize the received first and second agronomic data prior to storage in the data store.

31. The system of claim 30, the first format of the first agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, the second format of the second agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, and the processors operable to normalize the received first and second agronomic data prior to storage in the data store comprising the processors operable to convert a first attribute of the first agronomic data into a new attribute based on the data store.

32. The system of claim 29, the first format of the first agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, the second format of the second agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, and the processors operable to normalize the received first and second agronomic data prior to storage in the data store comprising the processors operable to link a first attribute of the second agronomic data to a first attribute of the first agronomic data.

33. The system of claim 32, the processors further operable to layer the received first agronomic data and the second agronomic data, in the data store using the linked attribute.

34. The system of claim 29, the processors further operable to retrieve the geospatial information from a remote data source.

35. The system of claim 34, the retrieved geospatial information comprising Shape files.

37. The system of claim 29, the first client comprising an agricultural product manufacturer and the first agronomic data comprising bar codes and associated product descriptions.

38. The system of claim 37, the second client comprising an agricultural product distributor and the second agronomic data comprising point-of-sale information and at least one of the bar codes.

39. The system of claim 38, the processors further operable to:

receive third agronomic data in a third format from a third of the plurality of clients using a personal data assistant (PDA), the third client comprising a farmer and the third agronomic data comprising crop profile, fertilizer usage, geospatial farm data, and environmental information; and

store the received third agronomic data in the data store.

40. The system of claim 39, the processors further operable to:

receive fourth agronomic data in a fourth format from a fourth of the plurality of clients, the fourth client comprising a food processing entity;

store the received fourth agronomic data in the data store.

41. The system of claim 29, the processors further operable to communicate data from the data store to a governmental agency in response to a request from one of the clients.

42. The system of claim 29, the processors further operable to generate a report illustrating the life cycle of an agricultural product based on the data store.

43. The system of claim 29, the processors further operable to:

retrieve at least a portion of the geospatial information from an external GIS based on at least one attribute of the received first agronomic data; and

correlate the retrieved geospatial information with the received agronomic data after it is stored in the data store.

36. The system of 29, the first agronomic data comprising a plurality of attributes, at least one of the attributes comprising a geospatial attribute, and the processors further operable to link the first agronomic data to the geospatial information based, at least in part, on the geospatial attribute.