A picture mapping system comprises a vehicle adapted to travel on an agricultural
field; a camera mounted on the vehicle for continuously taking pictures of various
portions of the agriculture field; a computer mounted on the vehicle for receiving
and processing pictures taken by the camera; and GPS receiver means for receiving
information signals transmitted from GPS satellites and/or GPS base stations. In
particular, the camera is moved continuously by the vehicle travelling on the field,
the pictures taken by the camera are continuously fed into the computer, positional
information signals transmitted from GPS satellites and/or GPS base stations are
also fed to the computer to determine the positions and the orientations of various
pictures taken by the camera device, thereby synthesizing together the pictures
on the display of the computer to obtain an overall picture representing the entire field.