A project to develop and commercialise an electronic nose for sniffing soils is underway.
Soil sniffer: QUOLL eNoses collect data on soil gases which will be accessed by users via an online interface. Pictured are University of Tasmania’s research engineer Chris Boucher and dgital agricultural scientist Dr Shahinur Alam. Photo: Soil CRC.
Led by the University of Tasmania and funded by the Soil Co-operative Research Centre (CRC), the project is looking at harnessing the use of a QUOLL eNose - an electronic smell sensor - to detect different...
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