DELINEATING MANAGEMENT ZONES BASED ON HISTORICAL YIELD MAPS

摘要

In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving digital yield data representing yields of crops that have been harvested from an agricultural field; applying an empirical cumulative density function to the digital yield data to generate transformed digital yield data; smoothing the transformed digital yield data to result in generating and storing smooth transformed digital yield data; determining a first count value for a plurality of management classes; generating a plurality of first management zones for the agricultural field by clustering the smooth transformed digital yield data and using the first count value; generating a set of first merged management zones by merging one or more small management zones, of the plurality of first management zones, with their respective similar neighboring large zones; storing the set of first merged management zones and the first count value in a set of management zone metrics.