Patent ID: 9031884
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: A01D,A01G,G06Q,Y02A

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: ingesting, as input data, weather information, crop-specific information for a crop to be harvested, and field-specific information for a location where the crop is planted, the weather information including recent and current field-level weather data and extended-range weather forecast data, and the crop-specific information including at least one of crop type data, planting data, and harvest data that at least includes a crop growth stage and one or more time periods representing temporal harvest windows for desiccant efficacy and harvestability data for a particular desiccant; modeling the input data in a plurality of data processing modules within a computing environment in which the plurality of data processing modules are executed in conjunction with at least one processor, the data processing modules configured to profile one or more windows of desiccant efficacy by 1) predicting expected weather conditions relative to plant wetness and seed moisture characteristics in the crop over the one or more time periods representing temporal harvest windows, 2) applying the expected weather conditions, the crop-specific information, and the field-specific information to at least one of an agricultural model of one or more physical and empirical characteristics impacting plant wetness and seed moisture, and a model of time-varying desiccant efficacy of the crop to be harvested, to simulate the plant wetness and seed moisture characteristics over the one or more time periods representing temporal harvest windows, and 3) predicting an effect of a desiccant applied to crop on a window of harvest opportunity based on the plant wetness and seed moisture characteristics by comparing the crop growth stage, desiccant efficacy and harvestability data, the expected weather conditions, the simulation of plant wetness and seed moisture characteristics, and one or more sampled observations of the crop to be harvested; and generating, as output data, one or more advisories representing a forecast of desiccant efficacy and crop moisture on a current day and future days within the one or more time periods representing temporal harvest windows in a harvest output condition profile.