Patent ID: 6041582
Filing Date: 2000-03-28
Classification: A01B

Abstract:
A system for recording soil conditions of an agricultural field while work is being performed on the field, the system comprising:a vehicle moveable over the field;an agricultural tool moveable by the vehicle, with a force, and configured to perform work on the field as the vehicle moves over the field;an input device supported by the vehicle and configured to generate force signals representative of the force applied by the soil to the tool during the work operations;a location signal generation circuit supported by the vehicle and configured to receive first location signals and to generate second location signals therefrom;a control element, coupled to the input device and the location signal generation circuit, the control element configured to generate condition data representative of the soil conditions based upon the force signals, and to process the second location signals to generate location data representative of the corresponding location of the vehicle in the field; anda digital memory coupled to the control element, the control element further configured to correlate the condition data with the respective location data, and to store the condition data with the correlated location data in the digital memory.