Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for steering or guiding an agriculture harvesting machine (agriculture harvester) with a high degree of precision, without the need for the agriculture harvesting machine to have a guide stick or shoe in physical or mechanical contact with the agriculture to be harvested or to be in connection with remote navigation systems, such as GPS. The system includes a sensor mounted at the front of the harvester and a processor for processing information from the sensor to determine a boundary line and for steering the sod harvester along the boundary line.

IPC Classes  ?

• G06V 20/10 - Terrestrial scenes
• A01B 79/00 - Methods for working soil
• A01G 20/12 - Apparatus for cutting sods or turfs
• G06T 3/4053 - Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting based on super-resolution, i.e. the output image resolution being higher than the sensor resolution
• G06V 10/75 - Organisation of the matching processes, e.g. simultaneous or sequential comparisons of image or video featuresCoarse-fine approaches, e.g. multi-scale approachesImage or video pattern matchingProximity measures in feature spaces using context analysisSelection of dictionaries
• G06V 20/56 - Context or environment of the image exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle