Knowledge for sustainable land management – in your hands!

The LandPKS app helps users make extra sustainable land administration choices by allowing them to collect geo-located knowledge about their soils and vegetation. It then supplies customers with details about their site. It additionally supplies free cloud storage and sharing, which implies that you could access your knowledge from any computer from our Data Portal at http://portal.landpotential.org. The LandPKS app does not require a data connection for use, and users can addContent their information once they have connectivity. The LandPKS app currently consists of three modules: LandInfo, LandCover, and the brand new LandManagement.

LandInfo makes website and soil characterization quick and easy! The app walks the user through the way to hand texture their soil, and doc different essential web site characteristics. Version 3.2 includes the brand new Soil Color perform, which allows the person to determine the colour of their soil sample by taking a photograph of the sample subsequent to a reference card.

This model also includes the new Land Capability Classification (LCC) results in the Report page. LCC classifies the land into 8 completely different courses based on sustainable production potential based on Slope, Soil Texture, and Soil Limitations. This can be utilized for land use planning and land management.

LandCover is a straightforward tool for quickly accumulating and recording vegetation cowl utilizing a 1 meter or yard stick. The module walks a person by way of collecting vegetation data utilizing a point-intercept technique at 5 points at 20 areas in each plot. Cover outcomes are automatically calculated on the phone and delivered to customers as easy graphs, including cowl tendencies over time.

SoilID is a brand-new function lets you instantly entry to information about soils mapped at and close to your location with the phone’s GPS or a easy tap on the map. LandPKS’s powerful world soil identification (SoilID) algorithm predicts your soil utilizing your location, LandInfo information and the identical logic used by professional soil scientists.

LandManagement is a model new recordkeeping module for recording, organizing, and accessing land administration activities in the past, current or deliberate for the future. With no data, farmers must rely upon their memory while making selections about future management actions. However, recollections can turn out to be unreliable after a quantity of months or years. Management activities, such as plantings, tillage, fertilizer, lime, weed and pest administration, harvest and residue administration, can be recorded by date. LandManagement stories could be generated for a person selected date vary to review a historical past of administration activities utilized or to see administration activities scheduled for future dates.

Learn extra concerning the LandPKS app on the LandPotential.org website. Training assets, including guides and on-line trainings, are additionally available on the website.

The LandPKS app was developed by USDA-ARS in collaboration with CU Boulder and NMSU with assist from USAID, BLM and NRCS.