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ifa Smart & Green Virtual Conference

I am honored and excited to be an invited speaker at the upcoming IFA Smart & Green Conference. The title of my talk will be: Building a Digital Twin for Applied Agronomy There are many other interesting speakers as well. I would encourage anyone who is interested in the topic “where tech meets plant nutrition”

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Proximal Soil Sensing Will Render Soil Cores Obsolete: Here’s Why

That’s a pretty bold title. Why should you believe it? To understand why proximal soil sensing (PSS) will obsolete soil coring and laboratory analysis (specifically for digital soil mapping and precision agriculture), we must first understand how each arrives at its answers. And, we must consider how close those answers can ever get to the

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Comparison of Digital Soil Probes

Understanding the soil is important for our food supply and the health of people and the planet, and yet it remains the most unexplored and elusive part of the Agtech information and analytics ecosystem. The future of soil classification and its power to enable ML/AI and digital twin applications must include direct sensing with probes

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Events

ifa Smart & Green Virtual Conference

I am honored and excited to be an invited speaker at the upcoming IFA Smart & Green Conference. The title of my talk will be: Building a Digital Twin for Applied Agronomy There are many other interesting speakers as well. I would encourage anyone who is interested in the topic “where tech meets plant nutrition”

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Vision Conference – Harnessing the Power of Agriculture

Join LandScan CEO, Dan Rooney, at the Vision Conference on January 17-18, 2023 in Glendale, AZ. The VISION Conference convenes leaders across the rapidly expanding agtech ecosystem with a singular goal: To shape the strategic roadmap for building a sustainable food value system to feed the world.

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World Soil Day 2022

LandScan and especially the Digital Soil Core (DSC) team would like to recognize #worldsoilday and thank all of the teachers, scientists, engineers, and data analysts who went before us. We are standing on their shoulders. There is an accelerating recognition that soil is at the foundation of our food systems and environmental stewardship. The #digitalsoilcore

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In situ analysis of nutrients in soil

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

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What’s the matter?

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

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A new season is upon us…

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

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Articles

Digging into Core Concepts

Proximal Soil Sensing Will Render Soil Cores Obsolete: Here’s Why

That’s a pretty bold title. Why should you believe it? To understand why proximal soil sensing (PSS) will obsolete soil coring and laboratory analysis (specifically for digital soil mapping and precision agriculture), we must first understand how each arrives at its answers. And, we must consider how close those answers can ever get to the

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The Power of 7 Sensors

The Digital Soil Core (DSC) has changed the way soil is characterized by providing rapid, digital, objective, repeatable, and transferable metrics of the complete soil profile in about 1 minute. The real power of the DSC comes from the synergies derived from having 7 independent sensors. Each sensor modality is orthogonal to the others, maximizing

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Acquisitions

LandScan Invests in Future of Geospatial Software With Recent Acquisitions

AgTech leader relaunches software platforms as Datum Geospatial™ Madison, WI, January 21, 2022– LandScan has announced the acquisition of three companies as part of its geospatial software relaunch. The acquisitions include: MicroImages, one of the longest standing geospatial software companies in the global market utilized in 120 countries and translated into 24 languages; Syncarto, a

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Acquisition Of Paris GeoSpatial, LLC.

Over the past 30 months as we’ve worked quietly it has been a challenge to keep our activities to ourselves. Among these activities was the acquisition of several companies that complement the LandScan mission. We will be announcing these in the coming weeks. These acquisitions by LandScan bring technology, intellectual property, and brilliant human beings

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