System and Method for Automatically Monitoring Surface Roughness of a Field During an Agricultural Operation

Abstract: an agricultural system includes a sensor having a field of view directed toward a portion of the field worked by an agricultural implement during an agricultural operation. the agricultural system further includes a computing system that receives data generated by the sensor, with the data including a plurality of points. the computing system filters the data to remove points indicative of dust from remaining points of the plurality of points and rotates the data such that a surface of the field determined from the remaining points is substantially horizontal. additionally, the computing system sub-divides the data into subsections after rotating, determines both a high point and a low point within each of the subsections, then determines a surface roughness of the field based at least in part on the high point and the low point within each of the subsections.

Inventor(s): Wenan Yuan, Brittany Schroeder

CPC Classification: G01S17/894 (3D imaging with simultaneous measurement of time-of-flight at a 2D array of receiver pixels, e.g. time-of-flight cameras or flash lidar)

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