SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING, IDENTIFYING, LOCALIZING, AND DETERMINING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF FIELD ELEMENTS IN AGRICULTURAL FIELDS

An imaging system usable with an agricultural operations vehicle as the agricultural operations vehicle moves through a field includes a stereoscopic multispectral imaging sensor configured to capture images of the field in real time; a processor; and a memory. The memory includes instructions, stored thereon, which when executed by the processor cause the imaging system to: capture a real-time image by the stereoscopic multispectral imaging sensor; determine characteristics of field elements within the field based on the real-time image, wherein one of the determined characteristics of the field elements is a vegetation index; determine a morphology of the field in which the agricultural operations vehicle is moving based on the captured real-time image; combine as data the real-time image, the determined characteristics of the detected field elements, and the determined field morphology; and determine a location of the detected field elements based on the combined data.