The robotic soil sensing revolution

Aardvark Robotics creates autonomous robots for agriculture, satellite calibration, and subsurface mapping, offering precise, automated soil data collection. With centimeter-level accuracy and cloud connectivity, they operate for months on end without human intervention and transmit valuable soil data for enhanced data processing

Imaging with 1mm resolution

While satellites provide meter resolution images and drones provide centimeter resolution imagery. Aardvark provides millimeter resolution measurements, to the point of performing spectral analysis of individual grains of gravel and sand

Diverse modalities

Close-proximity soil sensing offers many advantages over satellite imaging, opening the door for completely new modalities, like soil conductivity, soil dielectricity, soil texture and air content, grain analysis, radiometry, ground penetrating radar and more

The combination of various modalities provides for the first time the option to perform sensor fusion in one platform, with 1:1 pixel alignment

Scanning strategies

Aardvark robots are moving autonomously in the field after a scanning strategy has been defined for them. Scanning strategies could include fine-grain scans that provide centimeter level resolution imaging, or a time-series strategy that performs measurements in predefined points around the field on hourly intervals.

Hybrid strategies can allow multiple researchers to make use of the same robot at different times

Bring your own sensor

If you are developing your own soil sensor, we can mount it on an Aardvark robot, providing your sensor with centimeter level positioning accuracy, power supply, communication to server and remote control and management, as well as environmental protection, heat removal and temperature monitoring

Integrations

Aardvark provides the researcher with an end-to-end solution, from robot deployment through sensing, collection, analysis to file format conversions and geodesic transforms.

You can download your data resources or import them direction into Google Earth Engine

Aardvark provides API hooks to pull or push data into your data application

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