Device to measure and provide data for plant population and spacing variability

摘要

An apparatus and method for determining plant population, plant spacing, plant spacing variability, and other information regarding row- planted crops. The apparatus senses the presence of a plant. The sensing can be adjusted to ignore such things as leaves, weeds, or other irrelevant items. The apparatus also concurrently measures the distance between each sensed plant. The information regarding location and distance between plants is used to derive plant population and plant spacing data. The method senses the location and distance between plants for a given area to derive the population and spacing data.