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 location accuracy and cloud connectivity, they operate for months on end without human intervention and transmit valuable soil data for various applications

Imaging with sub-mm resolution

While satellites provide meter resolution images and drones provide centimeter resolution imagery. Aardvark provides sub 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 allow multiple processes 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 API hooks to pull or push data into your own data application, as well as the option to download it in raw format

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