Colorado State University Department of Soil and Crop Sciences Design and Development of an on-line system for estimating soil carbon and greenhouse gases (GHG), specifically CO2 and N2O, emissions and removals from agricultural soils (i.e., cropland and grassland). The system must be capable of serving and integrating geo-spatial databases on climate, soil and topographic conditions, data on historical land use and management conditions, recent and current land management practices and provide web-based modeling services that can deploy dynamic ecosystem biogeochemical simulation models. A key design criteria is to create a modular system that can easily swap-in/swap-out different geospatial databases and modeling services that conform to different country GHG inventory standards.
Build and test a web-based digital decision support system for estimating soil greenhouse gas emissions and removals for agricultural crop systems, focusing on annual crop systems being used in Europe. The system will have a dynamic infrastructure that can accommodate multiple alternative modeling packages and backend databases that can be country-specific and deployed in a modular format. The system will focus on estimating soil-based emissions and removals but will be designed in a modular architecture such that other major source categories (e.g., livestock related emissions, farm fossil fuel usage) could be incorporated in the future.
