Abstract. Better monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of the amount,
additionality, and persistence of the sequestered soil carbon is needed to
understand the best carbon farming practices for different soils and climate
conditions, as well as their actual climate benefits or cost efficiency in
mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents our Field
Observatory Network (FiON) of researchers, farmers, companies, and other
stakeholders developing carbon farming practices. FiON has established a
unified methodology towards monitoring and forecasting agricultural carbon
sequestration by combining offline and near-real-time field measurements,
weather data, satellite imagery, modeling, and computing networks. FiON's
first phase consists of two intensive research sites and 20 voluntary pilot
farms testing carbon farming practices in Finland. To disseminate the data,
FiON built a web-based dashboard called the Field Observatory (v1.0,
https://www.fieldobservatory.org/, last access: 3 February 2022). The Field Observatory is designed as an online service
for near-real-time model–data synthesis, forecasting, and decision support
for the farmers who are able to monitor the effects of carbon farming
practices. The most advanced features of the Field Observatory are visible
on the Qvidja site, which acts as a prototype for the most recent
implementations. Overall, FiON aims to create new knowledge on agricultural
soil carbon sequestration and effects of carbon farming practices as well as
provide an MRV tool for decision support.
Abstract. Better monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of the amount, additionality and persistence of the sequestered soil carbon is needed to understand the best carbon farming practices for different soils and climate conditions, as well as their actual climate benefits or cost-efficiency in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents our Field Observatory Network (FiON) of researchers, farmers, companies and other stakeholders developing carbon farming practices. FiON has established a unified methodology towards monitoring and forecasting agricultural carbon sequestration by combining offline and near real-time field measurements, weather data, satellite imagery, modeling and computing networks. FiON’s first phase consists of two intensive research sites and 20 voluntary pilot farms testing carbon farming practices in Finland. To disseminate the data, FiON built a web-based dashboard called Field Observatory (v1.0, fieldobservatory.org). Field Observatory is designed as an online service for near real-time model-data synthesis, forecasting and decision support for the farmers who are able to monitor the effects of carbon farming practices. The most advanced features of the Field Observatory are visible on the Qvidja site which acts as a prototype for the most recent implementations. Overall, FiON aims to create new knowledge on agricultural soil carbon sequestration and effects of carbon farming practices, and provide an MRV tool for decision-support.
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