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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2018
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Georg Kormann, Zweibrücken, DE;
Wolfram Haiges, Magstadt, DE;
Peter Schade, Bad Dürkheim, DE;
Nico Correns, Mannheim, DE;
Bernhard Fischer, Tiefenbronn, DE;
Fred Grunert, Mannheim, DE;
DEERE & COMPANY, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an agricultural sampling apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprising: a wave emitter; a wave transmitter configured to direct the waves from the wave emitter as a plurality of linewise waves to irradiate surface points of the agricultural sample; a dispersive element configured to receive waves arriving from the sample and deflect the arriving waves in at least two directions depending upon the wavelength of an arriving wave; and a detector configured with a plurality of detection elements disposed in at least two dimensions, the detector configured to convert the waves arriving from the dispersive element to a signal.