| CPC A01F 15/0833 (2013.01) [A01F 15/07 (2013.01); G01N 9/02 (2013.01); G01N 33/0098 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |
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1. A round baler system comprising:
a pick-up operable to gather and move crop material while traversing a field;
a baler system having a baling chamber configured to receive a flow of material from the pick-up and roll the incoming flow of crop material in a spiral fashion into a bale having a cylindrical shape, wherein the bale includes a plurality of radial layers;
a bale size sensor operable to detect data related to a radial size of the bale during formation thereof;
a bale weight sensor operable to detect data related to a weight of a completed bale;
a location sensor operable to determine a respective field origin location of the crop material gathered by the pick-up for each respective one of the plurality of radial layers;
a controller including a processor and a memory having a yield mapping algorithm stored thereon, wherein the processor is operable to execute the yield mapping algorithm to:
calculate a density of a completed bale with data received from the bale weight sensor and the bale size sensor;
determine a volume of a respective one of the plurality of radial layers during formation of a current bale subsequent to the completed bale with data received from the bale size sensor; and
estimate a density of the respective one of the plurality of radial layers during formation of the current bale based on the volume of the respective one of the plurality of radial layers, and the density of the completed bale.
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