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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2006
Noel Wayne Anderson, Fargo, ND (US);
Mark William Stelford, Sycamore, IL (US);
Stephen Michael Faivre, Kingston, IL (US);
Noel Wayne Anderson, Fargo, ND (US);
Mark William Stelford, Sycamore, IL (US);
Stephen Michael Faivre, Kingston, IL (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A method for determining field readiness using moisture modeling of a plurality of fields in a region of interest includes (a) generating a detailed set of moisture factors covering a plurality of scenarios for each field element of the plurality of field elements for a particular field; (b) repeating act (a) for each field of the region of interest; (c) generating a general set of moisture factors for a particular field of the plurality of fields to be applied to each field element of the plurality of field elements in the particular field; (d) repeating act (c) for each field of the plurality of fields in the region of interest; and (e) estimating soil moisture for each field element in the region of interest based on the detailed set of moisture factors and the general set of moisture factors.