HL BaSE Impact Report 2025 - Flipbook - Page 23
Earth Rover
The Earth Rover Program began with a
shared conviction among three people in
different fields – an environmental journalist,
a seismologist, and a soil scientist – that a
better understanding of the ground beneath
our feet is crucial to solving some of our
most urgent existential problems: threequarters of the world’s soils are degraded.
The Earth Rover Program unites farmers,
researchers, and innovators across disciplines
to improve our understanding and use of
the soil, representing a major leap forward
in global efforts to improve the sustainable
use of our soils and help prevent climate
and ecological collapse. Using seismological
techniques to map the world’s soils, the
Program builds open scientific tools and
partnerships to monitor, understand, and
restore the land, advancing food security,
climate stability, and biodiversity through
science, technology, and collaboration.
HL BaSE advised on setting up the new
Earth Rover Program non-profit entity,
as well as on IP and employment law.
“At the Earth Rover Program, we know
that groundbreaking technology requires
world-class legal support. Hogan Lovells
was a true partner in this journey. Their
expertise was not only vital to the initial
establishment of the Earth Rover Program
as a not-for-profit entity, but also in
navigating the complexities of protecting
our intellectual property. Their support
helped the Earth Rover Program to ensure
that we are able to steward our innovations
to provide technology on a low-cost basis to
farmers and citizen scientists worldwide.”
Tarje Nissen-Meyer,
Co-Founder,
Earth Rover Program
