Patent ID: 9131644
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: A01G,G01N,G06F

Abstract:
1. A computerized method comprising: inputting a plurality of data that includes crop-specific information, planting specifications, remotely-sensed imagery, and meteorological data that includes fine-resolution dynamical extended range weather forecast information, the fine-resolution dynamical extended range weather forecast information representing a time period extending through to a crop maturity date; 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, and performed on, at least one computer processor, the data processing modules configured to generate a profile of crop development to a maturity stage by performing, over the course of a growing season, a crop growth model that includes the steps of 1) generating an accumulated growing degree days estimate of crop growth stages, 2) validating the estimate of crop growth stages by comparing the estimate with a time-series profile of crop growth data derived from the remotely-sensed imagery of a crop field, 3) determining actual growth stages from direct user-provided field observations representing at least one of temperature values and crop growth, at least one time during a crop growing season, 4) identifying differences between the estimate of crop growth stages and crop growth changes indicated by the comparison with remotely-sensed imagery and from the actual growth stages, and adjusting the estimate, and 5) generating an accumulated growing degree days projection of the crop growth stages by extracting daily maximum and minimum air temperatures from forecasted information based on the dynamical extended range weather forecast information to describe heat accumulated for a crop location for the time period extending through to the crop maturity date; and generating one or more of a crop growth action report and a crop summary report from the profile of crop development.