EarthOptics has announced it has mapped more than one million acres of farm and ranchland since the company began collecting data five years ago.
CEO Lars Dyrud tells Brownfield technicians use sensors mounted on all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and machine learning to analyze soil samples.
“We have a couple of sensors that are measuring about 20 points multiple times per second, all the way down to about 3 feet depth, and so all that data gets combined together with elevation data, satellite data, and the sensor and sample data to create really high-resolution maps of soil fertility, soil compaction, or soil carbon,” he explains.
