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The firm

EarthByte Lab is a Michigan-based geospatial technology firm led by its principal scientist and delivered through a network of specialists.

Leadership

Who runs the work

One scientist sets the method and stays on the project. You talk to the person who designs the analysis.

Dr. Sasmita Sahoo

Founder & Principal Scientist

Ph.D., Agricultural and Food Engineering

Dr. Sahoo leads method design and delivery. Her published record spans groundwater machine learning in Water Resources Research, MODFLOW modeling in Hydrogeology Journal, and spectral crop diagnostics with commercial partners. Prior affiliations include Penn State University and Michigan State University. She has led work for the University of Chicago's RDCEP center, Croptix Inc., and government water agencies.

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Technical network

We scale delivery through subcontracted specialists

The firm keeps method design in house. Flight operations, field work, and build capacity come from named subcontractors engaged per project. Every scope states who does what before you sign.

UAS flight operations

Licensed drone pilots for corridor and site capture

Hydrogeology

Numerical modeling and field characterization

Software engineering

Web mapping, viewers, and pipeline infrastructure

Agronomy

Field trial design and ground truthing

Collaboration record

Where the work has been done

Institutions and companies our principal scientist has delivered projects with.

  • University of Chicago, Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP)
  • Croptix Inc.
  • Penn State University
  • Michigan State University
  • Odisha State Government water agencies (India)

The record

Methods that survived peer review

450,000 km²
Largest study area modeled
900K+
Monitoring wells in one model
17
Peer-reviewed publications
500+
Citations of our methods
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