Abstract
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“Farmer insurance claims processing is primarily a manual process today. In most instances, the claims areprocessed on the basis of a claims processor visiting individual farms and manually evaluating the damage inthe field and then processing the payout based on this assessment. Alternatively, the payout is triggered bymore wide-spread catastrophic events where wide regions are categorized into a damaged region (flooding,drought etc.) and subsequently payouts are made.