Patent ID: 8412419

Claim:
A method of applying agroproducts comprising: obtaining a first set of agricultural attribute data from a field; classifying by use of a computer a first set of agricultural attribute data using a Jenks Optimization to identify a plurality of discrete regions, each region having one or more contiguous special elements related by a commonality of class into a particular one a plurality of classes; obtaining a second set of agricultural attribute data from the field, the agricultural attribute data having at least one value obtained from each classification of the plurality of classes; identifying a subset of the second set of agricultural attribute data, different from the first set of agricultural attribute data, by associating the subset with a single class from among the plurality of classes; subclassifying by use of a computer the subset without regard to data obtained from other classes in the second set of agricultural attribute data to identify a plurality of application zones within the single class; determining an agroproduct prescription map for the plurality of application zones according to the needs of a crop that may be grown in the field; and applying at least one agroproduct to the field according to the prescription map.