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A rear view of a our prototype soil sampler. The sampler mounts on a small tractor and will use an auger to extract the soil core and then a pneumatic system to convey the sample to a device which bags the sample and allows the operator to affix a bar code to the bag for identification. A mapping software package and DGPS will be used to mark the sampled location.. |
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View of the auger system. A hydraulic motor turns the soil sampling auger inside a tube. The vacuum system will attach to the open slit to convey the sample to the bagging device. 5 to 6 of these samplers will be evenly placed around the tractor so that one composite core can be taken a a grid sampling point and bagged for analysis rather than taking multiple samples. |
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Extracting a sample. |
