| 摘要 |
Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing mass haul optimization for agricultural terrain forming, based at least in part on three-dimensional soil modeling. In some embodiments, a computer system might determine desired soil conditions (including minimum topsoil depth, maximum and minimum slope, etc.) for an agricultural area. The computer system might also identify, based on 3-D topographical surveys and 3-D soil profiles, deficient locations within the agricultural area that do not possess at least the minimum topsoil depth, excess locations that possess greater than the minimum topsoil depth, sloped locations that exceed the maximum slope, and/or flat locations whose slopes are less than the minimum slope. Costs and volumes of topsoil and/or subsurface material may be calculated, and based on such calculations it may be determined how much topsoil and/or subsurface material to relocate or order to achieve the desired topsoil depth and slope at the identified locations. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method of land forming for an agricultural area, the method comprising:
creating, with a first computer, a three-dimensional topographic survey for the agricultural area, the three-dimensional topographic survey comprising an outer boundary; creating, with the first computer, a three-dimensional soil profile for the agricultural area, the three-dimensional soil profile comprising information about topsoil depth throughout the agricultural area within the outer boundary; determining, with a second computer, desired soil conditions for the agricultural area, the desired soil conditions comprising a minimum topsoil depth for a plurality of locations within the agricultural area; identifying, with the second computer, one or more deficient locations within the agricultural area that do not possess at least the minimum topsoil depth, based at least in part on the three-dimensional topographic survey and the three-dimensional soil profile; calculating, with the second computer, a volume of additional topsoil needed to obtain at least the minimum topsoil depth at the one or more deficient locations; identifying, with the second computer, a plurality of excess locations within the agricultural area that possess greater than the minimum topsoil depth, based at least in part on the three-dimensional topographic survey and the three-dimensional soil profile; and determining, with the second computer, a volume of topsoil to relocate from one or more excess locations of the plurality of excess locations to the one or more deficient locations, based at least in part on an optimization of costs of relocating the volume of topsoil from each of the one or more excess locations to the one or more deficient locations. |
