PI: Sameera Nalin Venkat

SciLink Soil Core constructs 3D structural and chemical representations of soil cores to identify critical minerals by aligning unregistered X-ray computed tomography and scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy imagery. This is accomplished using a SciLink-based AI agent that autonomously executes image segmentation, co-registration, and analysis tasks, with intermediate quality checks and recommendations to guide future experimental design.