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Crop | Spatial footprint | Time | Example use case |
|---|---|---|---|
| Different | Same | Same | Can correspond to a tightly intercropped pair of crops or varieties, where it is not practical to separate them geographically. |
| Different | Same | Different | Crop rotation Note that the timeframes do not have to be mutually excusive: for example, a cover crop can be sown (e.g., via an aerial applicator) before the preceding crop is harvested. it would correspond to a different crop zone because of our definition of cropzones as a spatial region where a given crop is being grown during a given time interval. |
| Different | Different | Same | Block pattern in a field grown with different horticultural crops in a single-crop (short) growing season. |
| Different | Different | Different | Block pattern in a field grown with different horticultural crops in a multiple-crop (long) growing season. |
| Same | Same | Same | Improbable use case. Could be used to represent a landlord arrangement, where different landlords are allocated different fractions of the production of the whole field. (That case can be represented differently.) |
| Same | Same | Different | Multiple horticultural crops per season in a warm climate. |
| Same | Different | Same | Different management or traceability needs (e.g., different customers) require separate record-keeping. Can reflect a setting where parts of a field have different customers, or a blocked arrangement on a citrus grove. |
| Same | Different | Different | Successive plantings of the same crop, but with different spatial footprints (e,g., due to different guidance patterns used during planting) |
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Crop rotation
Note that the timeframes do not have to be mutually excusive: for example, a cover crop can be sown (e.g., via an aerial applicator) before the preceding crop is harvested. it would correspond to a different crop zone because of our definition of cropzones as a spatial region where a given crop is being grown during a given time interval.
DifferentDifferentSameBlock pattern in a field grown with different horticultural crops in a single-crop (short) growing season.DifferentDifferentDifferentBlock pattern in a field grown with different horticultural crops in a multiple-crop (long) growing season.SameSameSameImprobable use case. Can represent a landlord arrangement, where different landlords are allocated different fractions of the production of the whole field.SameSameDifferentMultiple horticultural crops per season in a warm climate.SameDifferentSameDifferent management or traceability needs (e.g., different customers) require separate record-keeping. Can reflect a setting where parts of a field have different customers, or a blocked arrangement on a citrus grove.SameDifferentDifferentSuccessive plantings of the same crop, but with different spatial footprints (e,g., due to different guidance patterns used during planting)