This was the cover of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) journal 25 years ago. It was a complete shock to see my PhD research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the cover of this important scientific journal. It was then, and amazingly still is, a novel way of examining the soil profile in-situ.

Today is World Soil Day. Without this thin, living layer of soil – this reusable natural resource – life as we know it fails. Soils are 3D profiles. Every layer and attribute matters. LandScan has developed and provides services to install our #digitaltwin technology on two continents. A key component is our #digitalsoilcore (DSC), which

Important advancements by LandScan with our high resolution satellite product. These images have super-cleaned 30cm pixels and when combined with our unique image processing we produce our LandScan Vegetation Index (LSVI). You can see that even with the same superior satellite imagery that the LSVI outperforms the NDVI. The resolution of the canopy is incredible!

LandScan is pioneering AI/ML in agriculture through our #digitaltwin technology. The Root Cause Analytics (RCA) system interactive software combines analytical quality remote sensing with unique, high spatial and information resolution soil data. The result is accurate, realistic, and practical insights that can be immediately put into practice with a measurable ROI.

The inaugural Unreasonable Food Cohort gathering is a wrap https://unreasonablegroup.com/initiatives/unreasonable-food. Please check out this video with LandScan’s CEO Dan Rooney, PhD from that gathering produced and posted by the Unreasonable Group. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7221167458471051264

Optimize crop nutrition while saving money and reducing GHG. The practical utility of the LandScan #digitaltwins has immediate, quantifiable ROI.

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. Never more true than it is with soil information and improving crop performance and optimization. LandScan is leading the way. A podcast with Zac Ellis from Olam

Our technology is the only #agtech capable of inspecting the soil profile for the presence (or lack of) roots. Knowledge about roots and their distribution in the soil profile is a cornerstone of optimized agricultural production, #soilhealth, and #sustainableagriculture.

Interesting in-situ image from deep in the soil profile courtesy of the Digital Soil Core (DSC). What is it? #digitalsoilcore #ii4ag #soilhealth #agtech #soilscience #subsurfaceremotesensing Learn more: https://landscan.ai/platform/digital-soil-core/

LandScan has millions and counting of high resolution digital images of full soil profiles. We call it subsurface remote sensing. Just imagine how informative these data are! Learn more: https://landscan.ai/platform/digital-soil-core/ #digitalsoilcore #ii4ag #digitalagriculture #agtech

The Digital Soil Core (DSC) has been an integral part of LandScan’s very busy fall. We’ve collected millions of subsurface remote sensing images of complete soil profiles around California to help build our digital twins for optimizing crop irrigation and nutrition. We also learn a tremendous amount about soil health and organic matter not to

It doesn’t matter how frequent or resolute your remote sensing data is if you aren’t measuring plant height, canopy volume, and other important 3D spatial crop metrics. Spectral (and thermal) data alone just isn’t enough. #ii4a #digitalvegetationsignature #digitaltwins #remotesensing #computationalagronomy

No better place to explore soil than in its native environment! Here are some very beautiful and interesting images from deep in the soil profile. #ii4ag #digitalsoilcore #digitalagriculture #soilhealth #soilscience

There is so much to learn and discover about soil! #ii4ag #digitalsoilcore #digitalagriculture #digitaltwins #computationalagronomy

This is an example of how LandScan’s technology works together to make discoveries and solve complex agronomic challenges. No other technology suite in the world can obtain this information and produce these analytics. Learn more: https://landscan.ai/ #ii4ag #rootcauseanalytics #digitalvegetationsignature #digitalsoilcore #digitalagriculture #digitaltwins

Three remote sensing options that all have their place in the agricultural industry. #digitalagriculture #remotesensing #digitalvegetationsignature

The Digital Soil Core (DSC) is the only technology in the world capable of generating an in-situ full profile scan of specific nutrients in the soil. Data collected in one day from an almond orchard in California in spring 2023. Data analyzed by researchers at the University of Nebraska and the University of Florida. Peer

There are many, many types of organic matter of all sizes and each holds clues to understanding the soil environment. All of this data was obtained from an almond orchard (loamy sand) in one day in spring 2023 in California. Statistical analysis performed by researchers at Univ. of Nebraska and Univ. of Florida (peer reviewed

A new season is upon us and LandScan is back in the field! Stay tuned for lots of paradigm busting and exciting discoveries in 2023. #digitalsoilcore #rootcauseanalytics #digitalagriculture #digitaltwins #agtech

LandScan is expanding the horizons of soil science! More fascinating discoveries in the new field of subsurface remote sensing using the #digitalsoilcore. What is this? Fungus? Using these tools is becoming more and more interesting every day. We are seeing things never-before-observed and we are excited about what’s to come. #ii4ag #digitaltwins #digitalagriculture #subsurfaceremotesensing #soilhealth

There are many practical reasons why producing #digitaltwins for #digitalagriculture is important. Empower your voxels! Here true 3D soil information relating to how much water the soil can hold that is available to the plant is used for a precision center pivot irrigation application. Learn more: https://landscan.ai/platform/dynamic-modeling/ #ii4ag

Ever seen anything like this? These types of high resolution digital 3D soil maps can be produced for almost any soil property or attribute using the #digitalsoilcore. While it is not necessary to produce these visuals for site characterization and analysis purposes, it is useful for ‘we humans’ to see this so we understand the

The business of looking down is looking up! LandScan is pioneering the new field of subsurface remote sensing where an image is worth a thousand data points. Just like images obtained from satellites or airborne platforms can be processed, analyzed, and classified so too can images of the full soil profile obtained with the DSC

Characterizing the soil microbiome will never be the same! These features are the diameter of a human hair. We observed several this week in-situ at multiple depths (30-120cm) in a vineyard. The Digital Soil Core (DSC) is capable of characterizing features and properties that are not possible or practical through soil sampling.

“Everything is everywhere, but the environment selects” is the critical maxim for all things soil health and microbiology. If it is important for your application to understand and inventory the current (or potential) soil microbial populations to assess soil health or the impact of biostimulants, you MUST characterize the environment first. The #digitalsoilcore is the

The Platform for Discovery is a suite of technologies that produces true #digitaltwins for agricultural applications enabling never-before-observed discoveries and practical decision support solutions. Learn more: https://landscan.ai/ #ii4ag #digitalagriculture

How can #digitaltwins be utilized in #digitalagriculture? Learn more about LandScan: https://landscan.ai/ #ii4ag

Another unique soil information product created by LandScan using the #digitalsoilcore and #rootcauseanalytics. You can’t produce this information through remote sensing or with any other technology. The amount of water that is available to a plant is called plant available water and it is a result of numerous soil properties. This is NOT the amount

This is how LandScan #digitaltwins can be put to good, practical use for #digitalagriculture. No other technology in the world can produce this level and type of information that we call #rootcauseanalytics. Learn more about LandScan: https://landscan.ai/ Learn why you can’t do this with soil sampling: https://lnkd.in/eikgMQRJ #ii4ag #digitalsoilcore #agtech #soilscience

The #digitalsoilcore allows anyone, anywhere to view and assess the entire soil profile in real-time and in-situ in a matter of 60 seconds. No other tool in the world can do this. Here are some interesting images from 2022. Learn more: https://landscan.ai/platform/digital-soil-core/ #ii4ag #digitalagriculture #soilscience #soilhealth

It is too slow, subjective, degrading, has low spatial and information dimensionality, and removes the soil from its in-situ environment…even if you test the soil sample in the field. Lots of steps for errors to occur too. If you are relying on the lab, then an entire new set of errors are added to the

Merry Christmas…and remember more than half of the plant (crop) is underground. Enjoy our Christmas Haiku. Merry Christmas treeMajestic in sky and soilSo much to explore

The crop is scanned using quality imagery #digitalvegetationsignature which in turn is used to guide the location of the #digitalsoilcore (DSC) observations. The DSC’s 7 independent sensors obtain an objective, in-situ, continuous digital soil profile to 120cm+ in about 60 seconds. Hundreds of observations can be taken in a single day. This includes a full

Learn more: https://landscan.ai/platform/digital-soil-core/ #digitalsoilcore #ii4ag #digitalagriculture #digitaltwins

Eureka! (?) We are often asked about utilizing the Digital Soil Core (DSC) for mineral exploration. We are seeing what looks like gold at some depths in certain locations and at this location there was quite a bit of this material. Doesn’t seem to be pyrite. Learn more about the DSC here: https://landscan.ai/platform/digital-soil-core/ #digitalsoilcore

What is your truth? Ground truth that is… The Digital Soil Core (DSC) is the only soil sensing technology in the world that completely ‘senses’ the soil…the DSC feels, sees, hears, and to some extent smells and tastes the entire soil profile. Learn more about the DSC and how we use it from other LinkedIn

Characterizing and classifying vegetation is a hot topic! The Digital Vegetation Signature (DVS) includes a high-precision thermal sensor that enables LandScan to add this important ingredient into our Root Cause Analytics (RCA) tool. The two trees are not distinguishable from each other in March or June, but their differences are obvious in April and August.

Beware of shifting sands! There are many who utilize EM/EC sensors to produce ‘soil maps’. These sensors do not produce soil maps and are almost always ‘oversold’ as such. The providers utilize the patterns generated from these sensors to interpolate and extrapolate their soil observations along with topography and/or yield making the false assumption that

It’s about time! You can’t do advanced analytics in agriculture without a digital twin. Analytical quality remote sensing data provides an entire new dimension of information for advanced temporal analytics. The data must be calibrated at the pixel scale. LandScan does this with the DVS in 3 data dimensions: 7-band multi-spectral, hyper-spatial, and thermal. This

Do you want to see something revolutionary for the first time? We call it “Information Infrastructure for Agriculture”. Remember, if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. This product brings together many elements starting with a group of intelligent, hard-working, team members who designed and developed the Digital Vegetation Signature (DVS) and Digital Soil

We call it the “Snap Crackle Pop” sensor, but it is really a cleverly engineered listening system that collects and analyzes the complex audio signals created as the Digital Soil Core (DSC) is inserted into the soil. The many incredible rich information dimensions obtained with the audio sensor are fused with data collected from the

Every day we see so many amazing features in the soil that relate to soil health and the soil microbiome. Here we see a network of fungal hyphae mixed with root hairs. The spatial resolution is about 3 microns the image scale is 2.3mm x 1.3mm. The Digital Soil Core (DSC) contains 7 sensors that

The Digital Soil Core (DSC) passing by a leaf buried in the soil. #ii4ag #digitalsoilcore

I have been conducting industrial field-scale agronomic research for over 3 decades. One thing that became crystal clear to me is that the soil is the driving factor in how a crop performs and behaves over time at any given location within a field. Canopy volume has been shown to drive light interception and yield

Let the Digital Soil Core (DSC) take you back to your roots! The possibilities are endless and there is so much to discover. Every day LandScan is uncovering never-before observed in-situ relationships between plant performance and behavior and the growing environment. The digital video microscope is paired within the DSC with other sensors that add

The Digital Soil Core (DSC) is breaking new ground! We see water beading across void space and root hairs at 65cm along with many other features in today’s scene. The digital microscope is one of 7 sensors contained within the DSC that is revolutionizing subsurface characterization and enabling advanced analytics. #digitalsoilcore #ii4ag #soilhealth #digitalagriculture

They say that structure is the Holy Grail of soil properties. Drink up! The Digital Soil Core (DSC) obtains a real-time, in-situ, continuous vertical soil profile in a little more than a minute that can be viewed anywhere in the world as it is collected! The cool part is that you cannot acquire this content

Don’t be fooled by colorful maps and fantastical claims! The Digital Soil Core (DSC) will expose the ‘ground truth’… Electromagnetic conductivity (EC) data sets are useful and are one small part of LandScan’s site characterization process…but they are not soil maps. The same conductivity measurement is almost always a result of multiple soil properties measured

LandScan is now making rock music! The Digital Soil Core (DSC) #digitalsoilcore contains 7 sensors. One of these we call “Snap Crackle Pop” and it is a highly sensitive and tuned acoustic sensor capable of delineating coarse fragments and providing additional information about other soil physical properties. This sensor adds an additional set of information

How much water is in the root zone of a field AND is available for the roots? The #Digitalsoilcore (DSC) is uniquely capable of practically and efficiently answering this question. LandScan produces the Root Zone Plant Available Water information product for optimized irrigation design and dynamic management.

Talk about ‘deep learning’ in agriculture! PedonView is one of the many ways to utilize the Digital Soil Core (DSC) for visualizing, analyzing, and understanding site characteristics. These data cubes contain dozens of unique information dimensions for deep machine learning and are a powerful contribution to the Platform for Discovery.

Every day a new discovery with the Digital Soil Core (DSC)! Look what we found in a vineyard in California. What are we looking at? Our pixel resolution is 3 microns.

LandScan is the pioneer in subsurface hyperspectral remote sensing. The Digital Soil Core (DSC) has 7 sensors that are used to characterize the soil environment in true 3D. Sensor fusion combined with machine learning can produce astonishing results. In this image we can classify different minerals, quantify porosity, identify redoximorphic features and concretions, and much

It is fascinating to be able to see what is happening in the soil in real-time and in-situ using the Digital Soil Core (DSC). The powerful and unique analytics enabled by this tool are game-changing! Today from an almond orchard in California. We can see roots, soil grains, minerals, and more. We can learn and

So much can be learned about a soil profile in 90 seconds using the Digital Soil Core (DSC) including a full 3D scan of porosity, structure,texture, salinity, color, and numerous attributes related to the soil water/fertilizer/chemistry/microbiome relationship.

It is now possible to digitally characterize the soil profile in 1 cm increments for dozens of soil properties in-situ in about 90 seconds. The Digital Soil Core (DSC) contains 7 sensors that obtain continuous measurements of soil properties including texture, structure, porosity, organic matter, density, moisture, salinity, and many others. Data from multiple sensors

LandScan is pioneering LIDAR analytics as part of our Digital Vegetation Signature (DVS) technology. These metrics, when combined with other spatial, spectral and thermal data obtained from drones is used in conjunction with the Digital Soil Core (DSC) to discover relationships between plant performance and behavior and the growing environment.

Check out this ‘dirty video’ from the LandScan Digital Soil Core (DSC) tool from an almond orchard in California. One of the DSC’s seven sensors obtains in-situ, super high resolution digital imagery of the entire soil profile in about a minute at a resolution of 3 microns! You can see roots, critters, pores, grains, structure,