Turf management

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9872445
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12895339

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A turf management system includes an irrigation system for providing water to the turf at a turf site, and an irrigation evaluation system for evaluating the performance of the irrigation system. The irrigation evaluation system segments the turf site into irrigation management units, where each of the irrigation management units includes at least one sprinkler head. Qualities of the turf are measured to generate collected data points. The data points are used by the irrigation evaluation system to compute a value for the turf in each of the irrigation management units. The values can then be used to identify irrigation management units having common characteristics. The values can be used to define irrigation management zones for controlling the irrigation system.

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THE TORO COMPANY8111 LYNDALE AVENUE SOUTH BLOOMINGTON MN 55420

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Carson, Troy David Richfield, US 5 66
Cline, Van Willis St. Paul, US 6 86
Rice, Kathleen Sue Faribault, US 6 86

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