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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2010
Kevin Deppermann, St. Louis, MO (US);
Susan Macisaac, St. Louis, MO (US);
Haitao Xiang, St. Louis, MO (US);
Travis Frey, St. Louis, MO (US);
Kevin Deppermann, St. Louis, MO (US);
Susan Macisaac, St. Louis, MO (US);
Haitao Xiang, St. Louis, MO (US);
Travis Frey, St. Louis, MO (US);
Monsanto Technology LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method of generating crop biometric information in field conditions that includes scanning top surfaces of various plant crown structures of a plurality of plants in one or more rows of plants within a field to collect scan data of the crown structures. Additionally, the method includes converting the scan data into a high spatial resolution 3-dimensional field contour map that illustrates an aggregate 3-dimensional field contour of the scanned plants. The method further includes extracting, from the high spatial resolution 3-dimensional field contour map, biometric information relating to the plants in each of one or more selected rows of the scanned rows of plants.