Patent ID: 11937530
Assignee: KINZE MANUFACTURING, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 11:
12. A method of acquiring a location of an event of an agricultural operation performed by an agricultural machine, the method comprising:
acquiring first location information communicated from a satellite in Earth's orbit with a satellite-based radio navigation system;
acquiring second location information with an augmentation system comprising an inertial measurement unit located on the agricultural machine, said inertial measurement unit having a 9-axis inertial measurement unit sensor, said second location information including: a specific measurement of a body's force, an angular rate, and/or an orientation of the body, and wherein the augmentation system can tether the second location information to the first location information from the satellite-based radio navigation system;
regardless of whether there is an outage of communication between the satellite-based radio navigation system and the satellite in Earth's orbit:
continuously attempting to establish a connection to the satellite that is in Earth's orbit;
accumulating the second location information so as to independently and spatially track the event;

storing the location of the event in a memory with a date and time;
enhancing the first location to include: a planting location for yield data, a location for prescription maps, and/or planted information to mitigate later compaction of a planted zone; and
transmitting and receiving, as radio waves, aspects of the first and second location informations by:
utilizing the first and second location informations from both the satellite-based radio navigation system and the augmentation system to provide the location of the event; or
utilizing the second location information from the augmentation system when the satellite-based radio navigation system is not available to provide the location of the event.