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In fact, the combine is equipped with Predictive Ground Speed Automation. This is prediction technology that uses biomass maps created by satellites. They become available to the machine through John Deere's Internet portal with which the harvester is always connected. Two stereo camera systems - on the left and right in the cab eaves - determine the height of the crop. With all this data, the combine "looks" four seconds ahead and adjusts its travel speed to the crop volume and position. According to John Deere engineers, this allows the machine to respond more quickly and gradually to changes in the crop than would be the case with cameras alone or based only on satellite data. This is because a camera does not provide good information in poor light, a lot of dust or on an uneven field. Satellites do not always have the most recent data available.

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