Patent ID: 8718941

Claim:
A method for developing a landfill with a compactor machine having three-dimensional position sensing equipment, a computer, and a display, the method comprising: traversing the worksite with the compactor machine, wherein the compactor machine defines wheel tracks over which a plurality of wheels pass while traversing the worksite; determining, with the computer, deflection of the worksite at a plurality of locations while each of the respective locations is beneath the compactor machine, wherein determining deflection includes: setting a common reference point at each of the respective locations beneath the compactor machine; measuring a first thickness above the common reference point at each of the respective locations beneath the compactor machine, wherein the first thickness is the distance between the common reference point at the respective location and the compactor machine; measuring a second thickness above the common reference point at each of the locations, wherein the second thickness is the distance between the common reference point at the respective location and the compactor machine; and calculating the difference between the first thickness and the second thickness at each of the locations, wherein the calculated difference between the first thickness and the second thickness is the deflection of the worksite; recording the determined deflection of each of the respective locations on the display beneath only the wheel tracks of the compactor machine, such that areas passing between the wheel tracks of the compactor machine are not recorded on the display.