BASF Agro Trademarks GmbH

Computer-implemented method for evaluating application threshold values for an application of an agricultural product on an agricultural field, comprising the steps: providing field data comprising geographic data about an agricultural field; segmenting at least a part of the agricultural field in sections and assigning different application threshold values for the agricultural product to different sections; applying the agricultural product on the sections according to the assigned application threshold values for the agricultural product; obtaining evaluation data for the different sections representing the effectiveness of the treatment with the different application threshold values; evaluating the different application threshold values at least based on the evaluation data (e.g. efficacy and or yields).

The present invention relates to the autonomous application of crop protection products by means of a drone. The present invention relates to a process and to an unmanned aerial vehicle for applying crop protection product taking into consideration drift phenomena. The present invention furthermore relates to a computer program product which can be employed for controlling the process according to the invention.

A method for modifying a treatment performance for treating an agricultural field by an agricultural machine, whereas the method comprises a modification function and the agricultural machine comprises at least one treatment component, characterized in that the method having the steps of —Obtaining field data (S 1 , S 10 ); —Determining a treatment performance by analyzing the field data (S 2 , S 12 ); —Providing a treatment performance modification via the modification function and a representation parameter (S 3 , S 13 ); —Modifying the treatment performance with the treatment performance modification (S 4 , S 15 ).

Computer-implemented method for determining and providing an application scheme for fertilizers, comprising the following steps: providing agricultural crop data (S 10 ) comprising information about an agricultural crop species sown or planned to sow in a field; providing application time data (S 20 ) comprising information about at least one planned application time of applying fertilizers in the field; providing nutrient specifier data (S 30 ) comprising information about at least one nutrient specifier present or expected in the field; performing a database search in a fertilizer product database (S 50 ) at least based on the provided agricultural crop data, the provided application time data, the provided nutrient specifier data and determining the fertilizer products matching the agricultural crop and the application time and one of the nutrient specifiers, wherein the fertilizer product database comprises information about a plurality of fertilizer products, and wherein the information about the fertilizer products comprises at least information about an application area of each fertilizer product, an active ingredient of each fertilizer product and a suitable application time for each fertilizer product; ranking generated application schemes (S 70 ), wherein the different application schemes (S 60 ) are generated by combining the determined fertilizer products in such a way that at least one nutrient specifier is covered with an efficacy above a defined threshold; wherein the step of ranking is based on one or more of specific statistics per application scheme. and generating control data configured to be used or usable in an agricultural equipment, wherein the control data is based on the highest ranked application scheme, or an application scheme selected by a user.

Method for pest treatment of a plantation field, controlling device for controlling a pest treatment of a plantation field and a treatment device having said controlling device, wherein the treatment considers a pest insect population and a beneficial insect population.

A computer-implemented method for providing operation data for treatment devices for treating an agricultural field ( 14 ), wherein the treatment devices include at least a first treatment device ( 21 ) and a second treatment device ( 22 ) for treating the agricultural field ( 14 ), the method comprising the steps: obtaining field data for at least one section of the agricultural field at least from the first treatment device; based on the field data associated with the at least one section providing selection data for selecting the second treatment device associated with the at least one section of the agricultural field.

The present disclosure relates to targeted treatment of specific weed species with multiple treatment devices. Provided is a system and computer-implemented method for controlling operation of multiple treatment devices ( 102, 103, 104, 107 ) having treatment device configurations different to each other for treating an agricultural field ( 112 ). The method comprises analyzing field data, monitored as at least one of the multiple treatment devices ( 102, 103, 104, 107 ) traverses the field, to identify weed present at a certain field location ( 113 ) of the field ( 112 ) by weed species; and targeted instructing at least one treatment device ( 102, 103, 104, 107 ) among the multiple treatment devices ( 102, 103, 104, 107 ) that has a matching treatment device configuration for an identified weed species to treat the field ( 112 ) at the corresponding certain field location ( 113 ) against the identified weed species.

The present disclosure relates to a multi-device treatment of an agricultural field. Proposed is a computer-implemented method for treating an agricultural field ( 10 ). The method comprises the step of analyzing field data (S 120 ), monitored as a first treatment device ( 100 ) traverses the field (SI 10 ), to determine whether the field ( 10 ) at a certain field location ( 10 a ) has a field condition which is treatable with a first device configuration of the first treatment device ( 100 ). If it is determined that the field at the certain field location associated with the respective field condition is treatable with the first device configuration of the first treatment device ( 100 ), the first treatment device ( 100 ) is controlled (S 130 ) to treat the field at the certain field location ( 10 a ). Otherwise, if it is determined that the field at the certain field location ( 10 a ) associated with the respective field condition is not treatable with the first device configuration of the first treatment device ( 100 ), the certain field location ( 10 a ) is provided (S 140 ) for at least one further, second treatment device ( 200 ) having a second device configuration that is different to the first device configuration and capable of treating the field at the certain field location.

A method for weed management is provided. The method may comprise collecting image data of a plantation field after being applied with a primary weed control technique. The method may further include recognizing items indicative of an occurrence of a weed in the collected image data. The method may further include generating a weed pressure map indicative of a weed pressure in the plantation field. The method may further include determining one or a plurality of target areas for weed management in the generated weed pressure map and outputting a treatment control signal, which, when transmitted, causes an activation of at least one weed treatment device to apply at least one secondary weed control technique to the one or the plurality of determined target areas, wherein the at least one secondary weed control technique is different from the primary weed control technique.

A method for determining a sowing row direction ( 4 ) is provided. The method comprises providing location data for at least one location of interest ( 5 ), the at least one location of interest ( 5 ) being located within an agricultural field ( 2 ). The method further comprises providing a sowing row information map ( 1; 6; 8 ), the sowing row information map ( 1; 6; 8 ) comprising information on the sowing rows ( 7 ) of the agricultural field ( 2 ) with a sub-field resolution. Finally, the method comprises identifying the sowing row direction ( 4 ) at the at least one location of interest ( 5 ) based on the sowing row information map ( 1; 6; 8 ). Further, a system ( 14 ) for determining a sowing row direction ( 4 ), a computer program element, a computer readable medium and a system ( 10 ) for generating a processed sowing row information map ( 6; 8 ) from a sowing track map ( 1 ) are provided.