Harvest Class Colors

This document contains a how-to step by step guide on how to create a Harvest Class Color. Harvest Class Colors are used to automatically classify Harvest Quality Vision scans for reporting and quality assurance purposes.

For more information on adding Harvest Quality Vision to your Croptracker account contact support@croptracker.com

Instructions

Note: Harvest Class Colors provide named color definitions for use when creating Harvest Classes. Multiple Harvest Class Colors can also be applied to a single Harvest Class to allow for quick reporting on a range of colors within a class.

To learn how to create a Harvest Class, see Creating Harvest Classes .

When using Harvest Class Colors, the lowest score produced is the most likely color match for a reporting result.

Creating A Harvest Class Color

1. Login to your Croptracker account through your browser. From the dashboard, click on the Harvest menu, then select ‘Harvest Classes’.

2. Click ‘Harvest Colors’ from the menu on the left side.

3. Click the ‘+ Add Color’ to add a new Harvest Color.

4. Fill out the form by entering the color name and color description. Optionally, draw the color histogram. See field breakdown below for more details.

Field Breakdown:

Color Name: This is the name used in lists and will appear on reports and selections.

Color Description: This is an internal description of this color and is not displayed elsewhere.

Histogram Editor: The histogram editor can be used to specify the desired color balance on the spectrum. The bar along the bottom displays the spectrum of hues with Red (0 degrees) in the center. You can click the 'Edit' button to adjust the histogram by drawing where the bottom represents 0% of the desired color and the top represents 100% of the desired color. The vertical range is expressed in a weighted percentage of that particular color range; when used for reporting the histogram will be normalized so the total color is 100%.

5. When finished, click ‘Save’ on the top right side.

Creating a Harvest Class Color From an Existing HQV Scan

1. Login to your Croptracker account through your browser. From the dashboard, click on the Harvest menu, then select ‘Harvest Quality Vision Scans' from the dropdown.

2. Select a scan from the list you would like to use as a source for your color histogram and click the View button beside it.

3. Once the scan is opened, scroll down to the Color Distribution section of the scan result

From the menu choose one of the following options:

Copy to Harvest Class Color: This lets you to pick from a list of Harvest Class Colors currently in the system. The histogram will be copied into the existing Harvest Class Color and the editor will be opened.

Create new Harvest Class Color: This lets you create a new Harvest Class Color using the histogram from the current scan. The histogram will be opened in a new record in the Harvest Class Color editor.

4. Fill in the fields and make any desired changes to the histogram.

5. When finished click ‘Save’ on the top right side.

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