US 12,290,063 B2
Method for generating an application map for treating a field with an agricultural equipment
Mauricio Lopes Agnese, Cologne (DE); Marek Piotr Schikora, Cologne (DE); Umit Baran Ilbasi, Sao Paulo (BR); Holger Hoffmann, Langenfeld (DE); Thomas Rommel, Langenfeld (DE); Mirwaes Wahabzada, Cologne (DE); and Sandra Selinger, Langenfeld (DE)
Assigned to BASF Agro Trademarks GmbH, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE)
Appl. No. 17/626,694
Filed by BASF Agro Trademarks GmbH, Ludwigshafen am Rein (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 13, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/069786
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 12, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/009136, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19186343 (EP), filed on Jul. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0256834 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 20/17 (2022.01); A01M 21/04 (2006.01); G06T 3/4038 (2024.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06V 10/70 (2022.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01)
CPC A01M 21/04 (2013.01) [G06T 3/4038 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06V 10/70 (2022.01); G06V 20/17 (2022.01); G06V 20/188 (2022.01); B64U 2201/104 (2023.01); G06T 2207/10032 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30188 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
generating, based at least in part on boundary data associated with a field to be treated, path data associated with a path to be travelled by an image collection device to collect a set of images associated with the field;
generating, based on the set of images, a field map of the field to be treated;
determining, using an image classification algorithm applied to the set of images, one or more infestation areas in the field map comprising one or more of a weed infestation or a pest infestation; and
generating an application map specifying one or more cells relating to the one or more infestation areas of the field to be treated using agricultural equipment.