Follow the links below to learn what the App has to offer.
A free modular mobile phone app connected to global databases, models, and cloud-based storage.
A module for rapid soil (texture, color) characterization, soil identification, and accessing soil and ecological site information.
A module for rapid vegetation monitoring (vegetation composition, plant height, and canopy/basal gaps).
LandPKS is a USAID-funded project that is implemented by the USDA-ARS. Click on each highlighted region below to learn more examples of how LandPKS is being used in each.
On March 7th, the LandPKS Team hosted a LandPKS Field Day at the Jornada Experimental Range, just outside Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. The Jornada Experimental Range has served as a field research laboratory since 1912 for long term agricultural…
The LandPKS mobile phone app (landpotential.org) helps users make more sustainable land management decisions by assisting them to collect geo-located data about their soils, vegetation, and site characteristics; and returning back to users useful results and information about their site.…
With the recent hiring of LandPKS Country Coordinators in both Tanzania and Ethiopia, the LandPKS team is putting much of our efforts into conducting more trainings, improving our training materials, and translating both the training materials and the app into other languages. We…
Brilliant! Many thanks and I look forward to viewing the updates/mods! Best wishes to the LandPKS team for all their hard work to meet varied users’ needs!
Thanks a lot for this. It has been useful in our day-to-day activities.
…still in love with our planet’s magical soils…thank you for all you do! keep up the great work.
