The DAISy (Digital Agro-environment and Intelligent Systems) Lab aims to advance our understanding of the natural environment by developing new use cases for mobile and optical sensor systems to monitor environmental and agricultural processes. The lab currently has two major thrusts: (1) nondestructive, optical sensing to model and predict characteristics of biological materials, and (2) integration of sensing and sampling technologies with mobile aerial and aquatic vehicles for novel environmental monitoring and sampling. Current applications of interest and pursuit include evaluating water quality, measuring earth surface processes, and monitoring crops across a variety of agricultural production systems.