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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Food and Ag”

Finding a LIBS method for improved plant nutrition in grape production

Diggity December 1, 2021 Academic, Food and Ag, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

Assessing plant nutrients, quickly and in the vineyard, would improve fertilization decisions for the table grape industry all over the world. Introduction SciAps handheld LIBS instruments are being used in Germany to investigate critical elemental in-field analysis in agricultural soil ...

Handheld LIBS – The latest success story in portable analytical instrumentation

Diggity September 27, 2021 Academic, Environmental, Food and Ag, Geochemistry, LIBS, News & Press, REE and Strategic Metals

LIBS technology has migrated from an obscure laboratory analysis method to a mainstream field analytical technique in recent years. Read "Handheld LIBS – The latest success story in portable analytical instrumentation" by Don Sackett, SciAps CEO, in the recent edition ...

Soil nutrient detection for precision agriculture with handheld LIBS

Diggity September 1, 2020 Food and Ag, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

Publication: Erler, A.; Riebe, D.; Beitz, T.; Löhmannsröben, H.-G.; Gebbers, R. Soil Nutrient Detection for Precision Agriculture Using Handheld Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and Multivariate Regression Methods (PLSR, Lasso and GPR). Sensors 2020, 20, 418. A new study using SciAps ...

Measuring Elements in Tea with Handheld LIBS

Diggity July 23, 2020 Academic, Food and Ag, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

Application of LIBS in Detecting Beneficial Elements & Contaminants in Tea Samples Before Covid-19 hit the United States, Dr. Ying Guo, Dr. Seungjin Lee and Dr. Tae Lee from Georgia Gwinnett College began a unique elemental analysis using the SciAps ...

Expanding Global Soil Management with SciAps Handheld LIBS

Diggity March 31, 2020 Academic, Food and Ag, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

A prototype of the platform that will integrate the LIBS sensor in the future. Courtesy BonaRes/I4S Handheld LIBS makes it possible to analyze every square meter of soil, in place and in real time. Courtesy BonaRes/I4S LIBS emerges as a ...

Measuring Lead in Tap Water with Handheld XRF

Diggity January 4, 2020 Academic, Environmental, Food and Ag, Independent Studies, News & Press, XRF

Dr. Marya Lieberman, an analytical chemist at University of Notre Dame, was driving to work early in 2017 when she heard a story that changed the course of her work. NPR aired a Reuters investigative story revealing that thousands of ...