What is LandPKS?
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.
Over the past several months, our LandPKS Tanzania Country Coordinator Elifadhili Daniel has been working hard in partnership with the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) to get the word out about LandPKS as a tool for land-use planning and agricultural extension.…
LandPKS celebrated the launch of the OpenTEAM collaboration over the past few weeks. OpenTEAM, or Open Technology Ecosystem for Agriculture Management, is a partnership founded by the Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment, Stonyfield Organic, USDA’s LandPKS project,…
Release 3.3.0 What’s New: SoilID function to accurately predict your soil LandManagement module for farm record keeping Access soil and climate information and create plots on map/satellite image Download or update the app in your phone at the App Store for…
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.
