Towards agricultural soil carbon monitoring, reporting, and verification through the Field Observatory Network (FiON)

GRACEnet: Greenhouse gas reduction through agricultural carbon enhancement network

GRACEnet (greenhouse gas reduction through agricultural carbon enhancement network) is a new research program initiated by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The primary objectives of GRACEnet are to identify and develop agricultural strategies that will enhance soil C sequestration and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to provide a ...

Measuring Soil Carbon Under Cap-and-Trade: Accurate, Affordable Field Verification Using Veris Spectroscopic Sensors

Measuring changes in soil carbon levels is a difficult task. Uncertainty about soil carbon measurement, monitoring, and verification is affecting agriculture’s role as an offset provider under a cap-and-trade program. There is ample evidence that skepticism is warranted. Soil carbon varies significantly at short distances—the carbon difference between samples collected within a meter can easily...

Towards OpenFlow network monitoring

Network monitoring is becoming more and more important as more Internet Service Providers and Enterprise networks deploy real-time services, like voice and video. Network operators need to have an up-to-date view of the network and to measure network performance with metrics like link usage, packet loss and delay, in order to assure the quality of service for such applications. Obtaining accura...

Identifying soil organic carbon fractions sensitive to agricultural management practices

Agricultural management explains historic changes in regional soil carbon stocks.

Agriculture is considered to be among the economic sectors having the greatest greenhouse gas mitigation potential, largely via soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration. However, it remains a challenge to accurately quantify SOC stock changes at regional to national scales. SOC stock changes resulting from SOC inventory systems are only available for a few countries and the trends vary widely be...