Soil Acoustic Meter + Light User Data Analysis Subscription (12 months)

What's included? 

• 1 x Soil Acoustic Meter (SAM)
• 1 x detachable probe 
• 12 month access to data analysis portal 
• Includes around 20 recordings per month (1.5 hours) 

Listen to soil health 

The Soil Acoustic Meter (SAM) records the sounds of invertebrates moving and making noise within topsoil. By measuring the amount and diversity of the sound made by worms, beetles, ants and other organisms, the biological health of the soil can be assessed. 

This package includes your SAM and one year's subscription to the data analysis and reporting portal. 

Take your own recordings and upload them to receive a benchmarked Soil Acoustic Quality Index (SAQI) score. 

How do I use my SAM? 

Test to compare between; regenerative and traditional farming methods, before and after treatments, pre- and post-harvest. The SAM will help you track improvements, identify the best performing areas, and focus on where you might consider land management changes to improve your soil health. 

Whether you are an agronomist, farmer, land or estate manager, food producer, winegrower, or managing a rewilding or agro-forestry project, soil health will be important to you. You are probably already measuring soil organic carbon, pH, bulk density and any number of other metrics on a regular basis and submitting these lab results to a toolkit or portal. You may even be digging worm pits to count earthworms. 

Soil Acoustics is an innovative field-based method to monitor the biological health of soil. 

Why Ecoacoustics? 

Soil health is a global issue, influencing crop yields, food security, carbon sequestration and ultimately the health of the whole ecosystem. With advancements in machine learning technology and the availability of low-cost programmable recorders, ecoacoustics has emerged as a powerful tool for surveying and monitoring biodiversity in many habitats, now including soil. 

Terms of sale

When purchasing your SAM and subscription, we ask you to choose the subscription level that's most applicable to your business. Usage that regularly exceeds these levels will result in an increase to your subscription. 

Delivery costs will be calculated at checkout and non-UK customers will be charged local taxes on delivery.

Our terms of service can be found here including details of use of the equipment, data management and intellectual property.