Soil color is a critical property to measure soil health and making land management decisions, but reliable readings are difficult to achieve in the field. LandPKS apps bridge this gap by empowering users to use their smartphone cameras with a reference color to calibrate their phone’s soil color readings. We ask for your help to make our automatic color detection tools even more accessible.
To be usable by everyone, reliable soil color readings should work with the materials people can feasibly access. LandPKS Soil ID uses Yellow Post-it notes to support more consistent soil color results, but our community of users tell us these references are not always easy to find or purchase in every location.
The LandPKS team is asking users, partners, and community members to share how they currently measure soil color, what reference materials are available locally, and how they typically get field supplies.
Thank you for helping us better understand what works in real field conditions. Please take a few minutes to complete our short survey.
