Patent ID: 6061618
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: A01B,G01C

Abstract:
A system configured to sample at least one site-specific characteristic of an agricultural field at a plurality of locations within the field, comprising:a vehicle moveable over the field;a location signal generation circuit supported by the vehicle to generate location signals representative of the plurality of locations within the field;a sensing circuit supported by the vehicle to generate characteristic signals representative of a characteristic sampled at the plurality of locations within the field;a control circuit coupled to the generation circuit and the sensing circuit, the control circuit configured to correlate location data representative of the location signals generated at the plurality of locations with characteristic data representative of the characteristic signals generated at the respective plurality of locations; andan electronic display supported by the vehicle and coupled to the control circuit, the electronic display including a map display area, the control circuit configured to produce a display signal which, when applied to the electronic display, generates a map at a desired scale within the map display area which includes visible indicia of the current location of the vehicle and of the characteristic data which corresponds to the map display area and, when the current location of the vehicle no longer corresponds to the map display area, dynamically redraws the map at the desired scale within the map display area to include visual indicia of the current location of the vehicle and of the characteristic data which corresponds to the map display area.