Abstract: An agricultural harvester for harvesting a crop on a field. The harvester includes a chopping assembly configured to chop a crop residue of the harvested crop. The chopping assembly includes an inlet for receiving the crop residue, a rotor provided with one or more cutting tools and configured to chop the crop residue, a drive assembly configured to drive the rotor, and an outlet for outputting the chopped crop residue onto the field. The harvester further includes an image based sensor configured to generate a signal comprising an image of the chopped crop residue and a processing unit configured to receive the signal from the image based sensor, process the signal to derive a geometric parameter indicative of a geometry of the chopped crop residue, and determine a control signal for the drive assembly based on the geometric parameter.

Abstract: A system is provided to expedite the transfer of data between an offboard server and a a locomotive in a consist. A wireless device may be located on each of a plurality of locomotives in the consist. A router may be located on each of the locomotives in the consist, with each router being communicatively coupled to an associated wireless device. A client processor may be located onboard each of the locomotives in the consist, with each client processor being configured to divide data to be transferred between the offboard server and the client processor into a plurality of subsets of data packets, and request transfer of each of the plurality of subsets of data packets in parallel between the offboard server and a different one of the routers on a different one of the plurality of locomotives.