Yard Stick
Yard Stick’s handheld spectroscopy probe measures soil organic carbon directly in the field, cutting the cost of soil-carbon measurement by around 90% versus laboratory cores.
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The probe uses Vis-NIR reflectance spectroscopy to measure a soil-carbon profile as it is driven into the ground, quantifying stocks to depth without extracting cores.
It is positioned as a measurement service that produces georeferenced soil-organic-carbon stock data, Verra-compatible.
Independent work with the Soil Health Institute (Geoderma, Jan 2025) confirmed in-field accuracy.
Ground-truth soil-organic-carbon measurement for regenerative agriculture, ranching and agroforestry, the calibration layer beneath remote-sensing soil-carbon models.
Recent developments
- Jan 2025Published a joint Geoderma paper with the Soil Health Institute confirming in-field accuracy.
Using Yard Stick in a project
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