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Collaborative project: Innovative and model-based agricultural tool to support subfield-specific soil organic carbon management to enhance the soil´s CO2 sink. Subproject 3 (CarboCheck)
Project
Project code: 281B302516
Contract period: 01.07.2018
- 30.06.2021
Budget: 337,598 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: digital world, precision farming, climate (climate relevance, climate protection, climate change), forecast, soil (soil conservation, soil fertility, soil cultivation, soil health), crop production, monitoring
Agricultural soils have a high potential to act as CO2 sink if soil organic carbon stocks are enhanced by appropriate soil management. The effects of soil management on carbon stocks require site specific models that account for the variability in soil and climate variables. Until now, there are no scientifically sound and easy to handle tools for farmers and policy makers in Germany that allow assessing man-agement effects on soil carbon. Such tools will be developed in the project CarboCheck. The aim of the project is the development and commercial launch of an app that allow i) predictions of agricultural management effects on soil carbon, ii) development of policy options and iii) to determine soil carbon content based on picture derived spectral data. The projects can contribute to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture if famers use the developed tools to sequester soil carbon in agricultural soils.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production
- Soil science
- Climate Change
- Computer science
Funding programme
Excutive institution
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Project management agencies
Associated projects: CarboCheck
- Collaborative project: Innovative and model-based agricultural tool to support subfield-specific soil organic carbon management to enhance the soil´s CO2 sink. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Innovative and model-based agricultural tool to support subfield-specific soil organic carbon management to enhance the soil´s CO2 sink. Subproject 2
