The Smart Soil Organism Detector: An instrument and machine learning ...
2. Materials and Substrate subtraction. To be able to detect soil organisms against a background of varied substrates, we simulated recovery ofH. bacteriophora entomopathogenic nematode (EPN) infective juveniles (IJs) from sand and muck soil solutions. The sand was autoclaved playground sand (Lowes) and the soil, high organic matter muck soil collected from Oswego, NY and autoclaved.