Soil sampling for pecan orchards — and why pecan truffles matter
Desktop NDVI Scope turns a multi-year May–September canopy stack into soil-sample pins for a pecan orchard. The pins are bags for the lab, not a pH map and not a truffle map.
The desktop copy of NDVI Scope stacks several May–September seasons of Sentinel-2 over a pecan orchard and drops soil-sample pins where the canopy is unlike the rest. Steadier green versus patchier green, so the soil cores represent real differences instead of one lucky (or unlucky) bag. Those pins are places to dig for the lab. They are not a pH map, and they are not a truffle map. This is the desktop tool, not the public /ndvi/ map.
Those pins are places to dig for the lab — not a pH map and not a truffle map.
Prototype for this fall: the desktop tool places bags from multi-season canopy strata so lab cores (late fall or winter) can measure pH and nutrients across unlike parts of the orchard. Satellites do not read pH; the lab does. Fruit-body scouting still happens on the ground.
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