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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2019
Auburn University, Auburn, AL (US);
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, DC (US);
Bryan A. Chin, Auburn, AL (US);
Henry Allen Torbert, III, Opelika, AL (US);
Galina N. Yakubova, Auburn, AL (US);
Aleksandr Kavetskiy, Auburn, AL (US);
Nikolay Sargsyan, Auburn, AL (US);
AUBURN UNIVERSITY, Auburn, AL (US);
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A system for analyzing soil content of a field includes a data acquisition unit configured to detect gamma spectra of each of a plurality of soil samples, wherein a surface area of the field is divided into a plurality of portions and the plurality of soil samples comprises at least one soil sample from each of the plurality of portions, a navigation unit configured to detect geographic coordinates of each of the plurality of soil samples, a data analysis unit configured to associate the detected gamma spectra of each of the plurality of soil samples with the geographic coordinates of the soil sample and determine a weight percent of at least one element within each of the soil samples based on the detected gamma spectra, and an element content map unit configured to generate a map indicating concentration of the at least one element within the soil of the field.