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The ground, read in long form.

These articles are the working notebook of the practice: the analysis, methods, and survey data behind every Lab10YR product, published as we go. Each piece opens the live long-form article.

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June 12, 2026

The ground, read in long form.

Computer Vision Is Now Classifying Soil Texture From Field Photos

Soil Depth Prediction From LiDAR: What the Terrain Tells You Before You Dig

The Ground Under Data Center Alley Was Never Meant to Hold It

Topographic Wetness Index: The Terrain Derivative That Predicts Soil Drainage

Multispectral Drones Are Measuring What Soil Labs Miss

What InSAR Sees That SSURGO Already Predicted

The Septic System Failure Map Nobody Publishes

The Carbon Beneath America's Peatlands Is Not Accounted For

Road Salts Are Destroying Urban Soils and Nobody Is Measuring It

Precision Agriculture Without Soil Data Is Just Precision Guessing

LiDAR Terrain Derivatives Are the Best Soil Survey Tool Nobody Uses

Hydric Soils and Wetland Regulation: The Map That Determines Your Permit

Forest Soil Compaction Is an Invisible Tax on Timber Productivity

Why Wind Farm Micrositing Needs Soil Science

What Pipeline Operators Don't Know About Soil Corrosivity

Nevada and Arizona Are Running Out of Stable Ground

How to Query 967,000 Soil Records in 30 Seconds

The Data Behind Shrink-Swell Soils and Foundation Failure

How Organic Matter Loss Is Priced Into Farmland Without Anyone Knowing

Soil Data Is the Cheapest Form of Geotechnical Intelligence

Karst Country: Mapping Sinkhole Risk Before You Build

Fragile Soils and the Infrastructure Debt Nobody Is Counting

The Ground Beneath the Cloud