Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ground control point extraction from planting data
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Application No.: US16790119Application Date: 2020-02-13
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Publication No.: US11232303B2Publication Date: 2022-01-25
- Inventor: Andrew Muehlfeld , Eric Taipale
- Applicant: Sentera, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Assignee: Sentera, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Sentera, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Agency: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06T5/50 ; G06T17/05 ; G06T7/73

Abstract:
The present subject matter provides a technical solution for various technical problems associated with precision agriculture imagery. One solution to improving precision agriculture imagery includes identification and use of ground control points. A ground control point may include the association of a visible feature in an image of an agricultural field with a geospatial coordinate. A ground control point may be used as a common reference point between two aerial images, thereby improving alignment between the two images during stitching. The ground control points may be generated using planting prescription data or as-planted data, which may include one or more intentionally unplanted regions within an agricultural filed. Multiple aerial images may be stitched together using these ground control points to generate a precisely georeferenced output image, thereby improving the accuracy of the precision agriculture output image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200184188A1 GROUND CONTROL POINT EXTRACTION FROM PLANTING DATA Public/Granted day:2020-06-11
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