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Boundary Sources

Accurate boundaries within Granular Insights are critical to understanding product performance on your fields. There are many ways to add, edit and manage boundary sources in Granular Insights, ensuring that your pre-planting workplans, variable rate seeding (VRS) recommendations, and post-harvest analyses best represent the activities on your operation.

 

USER-GENERATED BOUNDARIES

You can manually draw a boundary with boundary edit tools, use pre-defined boundaries or upload a shapefile to create fields. All of these methods for creating new fields in Granular Insights are considered “user-generated” and will never be modified by auto-generated fields, except from Primary Boundary, if enabled.

Drawing

Manually create field boundaries from the Map tab using the drawing tools in Granular Insights. You must provide the name of the field as well as its associated farm. Field boundaries can only be drawn using Granular Insights on the web. Learn more on how to draw fields using the boundary drawing tools.
 

Pre-defined (Auto-Detected)

Manually create field boundaries in Granular Insights using pre-defined boundaries. These pre-defined boundaries appear on the map with a blue boarder. These are added from the Map tab by selecting the pre-defined boundary for the field you want to add. If the pre-defined boundaries are not outlined, you may need to zoom in on the map. When adding a field, a farm and field name must be provided. Pre-defined boundaries can be added to your operation on the web or the Granular Insights mobile app.

Importing Shapefiles

If you have preferred boundaries in another system and have access to Shapefiles, you also have the option to upload the boundaries from these Shapefiles to Granular Insights, on the Map tab. Learn more on how to create fields by importing Shapefiles.

 

AUTO-GENERATED BOUNDARIES

When a field and its boundary are created using machine data imported in to Granular Insights through an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) connection or manual upload, these are considered “auto-generated” boundaries.

  • Minimum Size: to qualify as significant enough for the field to be created, it must be at least 0.75 acres.
  • Maximum Size: maximum size shape we will create a field for is 4.02 kilometers[HS3]  diagonally across.
  • Application Data: We never create fields using application data. We will only use Planting and Harvest data.

 

Data Upload (Manual and Wireless Connection)

Fields can be created from planting and harvest machine data. For manually uploaded files, the file structure is different for all monitor types. The files must be in a compressed format and are uploaded on the Manage Data tab. Fields can also be created using machine data brought into Granular Insights through a connection on the Manage Data tab. You are currently able to establish a connection to John Deere Operations Center, CNH and AgFiniti Essentials.

You can toggle the Automatically Create Fields feature on/off for an operation in Insights. By default, this feature is turned off. If this feature is turned on, when a data file is uploaded on the Manage Data tab (manually or through a wireless connection), fields will be created using the data.

When the area the data covers is 15% greater than the existing field and the farm and field names are the same, the field will be expanded out to encapsulate the additional data. Fields that are not auto-generated fields will never be modified with an auto-generated boundary process, except with Primary Boundary, when enabled. Learn more on how to upload machine data.


Primary Boundary

For John Deere Operations Center and CNH connections only, you can now choose for the boundaries in your John Deere Operations Center or AFS Connect with CNH to be the primary boundary source for your operation in Granular Insights, overwriting any existing boundaries. To activate this feature, toggle on the Primary Boundary toggle on the Manage Data tab. Only one OEM can be designated as the primary boundary source on an operation.

Once the Primary Boundary feature is activated, Granular Insights will export existing field boundaries and the file will be available on the Manage Data tab under Downloads. Field editing will be turned off in Insights for fields created through the primary boundary option.  Any required field edits would need to be completed through the OEM site. If a field is deleted from the OEM site, it will automatically be archived in Insights. Turning off the Primary Boundary toggle will unlock fields for editing in Insights. You will have the option of keeping or archiving the existing Granular Insights field boundaries when the Primary Boundary feature is activated.

Some boundary rules apply to the Primary Boundary source:

  • If OEM boundary does not match an existing field, a new field will be created in Insights.
  • If OEM boundary is the same as an existing field (matches 80% or more of Granular Insights boundary), the OEM boundary and field name will be applied to the existing Granular Insights field regardless of the source of the existing field.
  • If OEM boundary only partially matches an existing field (matches less than 80% of Granular Insights boundary), a new field will be created in Insights[YL8] [HS9] [YL10] 
  • If near-duplicate fields exist in the OEM, only one of them will be created/applied in Insights.  Duplicates should be resolved in the OEM site.
  • Linked Insights fields (new or existing) will always be placed in a farm that matches the OEM farm name. If the field is moved to a different farm or the farm is renamed on the OEM web site, those changes will also be applied in Insights. 

 

 

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