Computing risk from a crop damaging factor for a crop on an agronomic field

US12271958B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CLIMATE LLC · US

Inventors

• Patricia Ann Carroll · Seattle, US
• Holly Janine Dail · Seattle, US
• Bethany Susan Porter Grabow · Moscow Mills, US
• Ana Malagon · San Francisco, US
• Jerald Keith Pataky · Champaign, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 22, 2022
• Grant date: Apr 8, 2025
• Expiry date: Aug 22, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01W1/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and methods for determining a risk of damage to a crop on a field are described. In an example embodiment, a method for limiting such damage to a crop includes receiving, for multiple hours, weather data identifying temperature values and humidity values for a geographic location of the field, determining, for the multiple hours, that a temperature value is within a first range of values and a humidity value is within a second range of values and, identifying each of the multiple hours as a risk hour for a disease. The method also includes computing a risk value for the field based on the identified risk hours, determining that the risk value is above a threshold, and determining that the crop on the field is at risk for the disease. The method then includes spraying the crop on the field with a damage mitigating chemical specific to the disease.