Patent ID: 6266432
Filing Date: 2001-07-24
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for applying one or more crop enhancing substances to an agricultural area, comprising the steps (a)-(g) following:(a) displaying an electronic image of the agricultural area;(b) receiving input identifying at least a portion of a boundary for an initial subarea of the agricultural area, wherein the initial subarea includes an interior area that is not identified by a pixel representation in the input;(c) generating a data representation of the initial subarea from the input, wherein the generated data representation includes a pixel representation of at least one pixel of the interior area of the initial subarea;(d) changing a first portion of said boundary and retaining a second portion of said boundary for determining a first subarea, wherein said first subarea includes at least a portion of the agricultural area not included in said initial subarea;(e) computationally associating (i) and (ii) following:(i) a data representation for the first subarea, and(ii) application information for applying the crop enhancing substances to the first subarea;(f) applying the crop enhancing substances to the first subarea in a first way according to the application information, wherein when a location of a crop substance applicator is in the first subarea, the location is used for accessing the first information; and(g) applying the crop enhancing substances in a second way, different from the first way, when a location of the crop substance applicator is outside of the first subarea.