Food Solutions New England (FSNE) is a regional food systems learning-action network dedicated to advancing a sustainable New England food system. The FSNE network is organized around four interrelated activities:
A New England Food Vision, a bold vision that calls for our region to build the capacity to produce up to 70% of food that is produced in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner, that promotes health and is accessible by all New Englanders by 2060; New England state food planning initiatives; annual New England food summits and topical workshops; and related analysis, communication and visualization.
The UNH Sustainability Institute serves as the backbone organization for FSNE. Since its inception in 2006, FSNE has advanced its mission by linking a common agenda, shared measurement, continuous communication, and synergestic activities.
http://store.publiclaboratory.org/collections/spectrometry/products/fold...
It seems that lot of the work is getting these low cost spectrometers calibrated to plant tissue and soil sample analysis. The more robust version is only $40 - http://store.publiclaboratory.org/products/desktop-spectrometry-kit
this is a great way in to start developing open data sharing that is being discussed in this tool wiki
http://farmhack.net/tools/open-farm-data#forum
to start to develop calibration standards and assign some meaning to data coming out of this kind of technology.
There is also this sandboxed tool that tries to get at how to pull in this kind of data and make it useful to farmers and researchers alike.
http://farmhack.net/tools/universal-adaptive-management-software#wiki
Would be great to tie it into this kind of software too
http://farmhack.net/tools/crop-planning-software