Patent ID: 9734400
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G01N,G06K

Claim:
1. A method for measuring performance of a geographic region, the geographic region including a set of geographic sub-regions, the method comprising: a) receiving a first image of a physical geographic region, the first image recorded during a recurrent time unit within a first time duration, the first image comprising an image element set; b) for each image element of the image element set: c) identifying a first crop set comprising virtual representations of geographic sub-regions associated with a first crop type of the set of crop types; d) determining a first normalized vegetative performance value set, comprising determining a normalized vegetative performance value for each virtual representation of a geographic sub-region within the first crop set; e) generating a geographic region performance summary map for the geographic region for the recurrent time unit; f) generating a crop treatment prescription based on the geographic region performance summary map; and g) wirelessly sending the crop treatment prescription to a crop treatment system, wherein the crop treatment system is controlled based on the crop treatment prescription.