Lab10YR delivers soil and geospatial intelligence for infrastructure operators, land investors, and conservation professionals — built on SSURGO and authoritative spatial data, interpreted through rigorous geospatial modeling by pedologists who know where the data holds and where it doesn't.
Get in TouchRemote sensing platforms excel at monitoring terrain — LiDAR, hydrology, vegetation indices. Field-scale soil sensors measure physical properties for precision agriculture. Both solve real problems.
Neither can tell you why a specific map unit boundary matters, when a soil survey interpretation is defensible, or where SSURGO's limitations require ground-truth verification.
That knowledge lives with pedologists. We bring it to your decisions.
SSURGO-derived risk layers for buried infrastructure. Know before you dig — not after you repair.
Pipeline · Utility · EngineeringSection 404 exposure, USACE permitting constraints, and development risk — spatially modeled and professionally documented.
Developers · Permitting · Land UseLiquefaction susceptibility, mass movement risk, and soil saturation modeling integrated with terrain analysis.
Geotech Firms · DOTs · InfrastructureUSDA program eligibility, solar siting constraints, and prime farmland encroachment — defensible and audit-ready.
Solar · Agriculture · ConservationSoil and geospatial analysis for land transactions, ag lending, and farmland investment decisions. Know what you're buying.
Ag Lenders · Farmland REITs · TitleBespoke SSURGO queries, spatial data products, and interpretive models for organizations that need more than Web Soil Survey.
Government · Research · ConservationAnyone can pull SSURGO data. The value is in knowing what it means. A soil survey map unit boundary might reflect careful field work — or a surveyor's best estimate from a vehicle in 1974. That distinction changes the interpretation entirely.
Our team brings federal pedologic expertise to every analysis. We combine that domain knowledge with rigorous geospatial modeling to deliver outputs that are accurate, transparent about their limitations, and defensible in front of regulators, investors, and engineers.
No black-box confidence scores. No SoilGrids. Just SSURGO, properly interpreted, spatially modeled, and clearly documented.
"The limitation of a soil survey is known and interpretable by a trained pedologist. That's more valuable than a confident-looking output built on a model nobody can audit."
Lab10YR — Soil Geospatial IntelligenceBoth repositories are public and open source — built to give practitioners, researchers, and developers direct access to the same SSURGO intelligence that powers our consulting work.
Interactive maps, NYT-style data journalism, a live SQL explorer, and a complete SSURGO schema reference — all built on America's most comprehensive soil database. Over 258 production SQL scripts covering carbon, hydrology, taxonomy, interpretations, and spatial analysis.
A complete beginner-to-expert curriculum for SSURGO and the Soil Data Access REST API. Every lesson runs live against the real SDA database — no data files, no installs, no mocking. SQL, Python, and JavaScript tracks with a live query sandbox.
Soil corrosivity, shrink-swell, slope stability, and geohazard risk along corridor networks — including transmission lines and distribution infrastructure.
SSURGO-based site characterization, terrain modeling, and LiDAR-derived slope analysis to complement field investigations.
Soil productivity, constraint mapping, and land quality due diligence across large portfolios.
Baseline soil documentation, prime farmland delineation, and carbon inventory support.
Solar and wind farm soil suitability, load-bearing capacity, drainage classification, and land disturbance risk for project siting and permitting.
Installation siting, training range terrain assessment, ground deformation monitoring, and vegetation encroachment detection across federal land holdings.
Soil-based catastrophic risk scoring — shrink-swell, subsidence, liquefaction, and flooding vulnerability — for portfolio underwriting and exposure modeling.
Brownfield assessment, stormwater soil characterization, development siting constraints, and urban soil mapping for permitting and infrastructure decisions.
We work with a focused set of clients on projects where soil and geospatial intelligence makes a real difference. If you're dealing with a land decision, infrastructure risk assessment, or permitting challenge that touches the soil column, we'd like to hear about it.
Reach us directly at
info@lab10yr.com
929-548-8522