Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Moisture and vegetative health mapping
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Application No.: US17498303Application Date: 2021-10-11
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Publication No.: US11856883B2Publication Date: 2024-01-02
- Inventor: John Gordon Morrison , Davis Thorp Foster , Isaac Heath Roberts
- Applicant: Scythe Robotics, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CO Longmont
- Assignee: Scythe Robotics, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Scythe Robotics, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Longmont
- Agency: Moser Taboada
- Main IPC: A01C21/00
- IPC: A01C21/00 ; G06T7/70 ; G06T7/00 ; G06T17/05 ; G05D1/02 ; A01B69/00 ; A01C23/00 ; A01C7/06 ; A01C7/10 ; A01M7/00 ; G06N20/00

Abstract:
A vegetative health mapping system which creates two- or three-dimensional maps and associates moisture content, soil density, ambient light, surface temperature, and/or additional indications of vegetative health with the map. Moisture content is inferred using radar return signals of near-field and/or far-field radar. By tuning various parameters of the one or more radar (e.g. frequency, focus, power), additional data may be associated with the map from subterranean features (such as rocks, soil density, sprinklers, etc.). Additional sensors (camera(s), lidar, IMU, GPS, etc.) may be fused with radar returns to generate maps having associated moisture content, surface temperature, ambient light levels, additional indications of vegetative health (as may be determined by machine learned algorithms), etc. Such vegetative health maps may be provided to a user who, in turn, may indicate additional areas for the vegetative health device to scan or otherwise used to recommend and/or perform treatments.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220030763A1 MOISTURE AND VEGETATIVE HEALTH MAPPING Public/Granted day:2022-02-03
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