Patent ID: 9423249
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: A01G,G01B

Claim Text:
1. A method of generating crop biometric information in field conditions for use in crop analytics and breeding, said method comprising: providing a test plot of plants comprising a plurality of rows of plants that have been planted such that each row of plants comprises at least one specific selected genotype of plants and at least one of the rows of plants comprises plants of a selected genotype that is different than the selected genotype of the plants in at least one of the other rows; scanning top surfaces of various plant crown structures of a plurality of the plants in one or more of the rows of plants to collect scan data of the crown structures; converting the scan data into a high spatial resolution 3-dimensional field contour map; extracting, from the high spatial resolution 3-dimensional field contour map, biometric information relating to the plants in each of the one or more rows of the scanned plants; utilizing the extracted biometric information to determine information regarding at least one selected trait for each of the plants in the one or more rows of scanned plants; and utilizing the determined trait information to identify one or more plants in the test plot exhibiting the at least one selected trait, thereby identifying which of the specific selected genotypes of plants exhibit the at least one selected trait.