Digital solutions
AgriCaptureCO2 approach
1. Explore
Assess how sustainable practices affect fields, farms and income
Change is never easy, particularly when abandoning tried-and-tested agricultural practices for new ones. Throughout the 'explore’ stage, we estimate the effects of various changes to yield, fuel and input costs, labour and farm income, and also the potential revenue from carbon credits.
How we do it: Use of satellite imagery (Copernicus high-resolution imagery); in-house improved soil maps; and various soil, plant and farm economic models.
2. Quantify
Cost-effective and accurate estimates for changes in soil carbon over time
What is happening in the soil is hard to see and expensive to measure. Using satellite data and Artificial Intelligence, we bring a new level of accuracy to map soil carbon in every field. Soil samples are still key to accuracy – we tell you where a sample will most contribute to a better and more accurate map.
How we do it: Use of satellite imagery (Copernicus), point soil data (public and private datasets), in-house soil mapping algorithms, in-house uncertainty mapping algorithms.
3. Verify
Remote assessment of whether sustainable practices are being implemented
With an eye in the sky, we can confirm that farmers are implementing certain agricultural practices (or the level of risk that they are not). This makes documentation for farm certification and farm carbon credits much easier – and much cheaper.
How we do it: Use of satellite imagery (Copernicus) and in-house detection algorithms.
4. Support
Digital agricultural advisory services tailored to regenerative farming
Designed with farmers for farmers, we provide specialised services to help land managers with the key challenges of a new sustainable approach. In line with a context-specific approach to regenerative farming, these services are tailored to specific needs and contexts.
How we do it: Use of satellite imagery (Copernicus), weather data, integration with sensors, user-friendly interface, and various in-house algorithms.
AgriCaptureCO2 products and tools
What are the services? Who benefits?
We make carbon projects in agriculture easier, more accurate, and cheaper to run.
Building from our advanced geospatial platform, we have developed a highly scalable suite of services to radically improve the process for carbon certification of soil carbon projects (fully compatible with VERRA and multiple other voluntary carbon schemes).
We observe satellite data to rapidly and cheaply assess field eligibility and guide cost-effective soil sampling strategies. We also apply high performance algorithms with real-time satellite data to remotely verify that project participants are implementing agreed practices on every field with high precision — regardless of the project’s scale.
How do they fit into wider project goals?
Much has been written about how carbon credits can be a financial mechanism to provide farmers with support and an incentive to adopt climate- and environment-friendly practices.
In practice, these projects are few and far between. It is simply difficult to measure what goes on under the soil over large expanses of land.
Our transparent, scalable, and cost-effective tool is instrumental to create reliable and results-based agricultural carbon credit projects anywhere in the world.
See the diagram below showing a simplified process of how a farm can get carbon credits, with the green ticks indicating where AgriCaptureCO2 services can support in this process.
Our scheme will result in carbon credits registered by the world leader in voluntary carbon credits, the Verified Carbon Standard, fully compliant with the Kyoto Protocol. For farmers, this means access to the world’s largest voluntary carbon market; for carbon credit buyers, this means complete confidence backed by the rigour of expert-approved processes.
What are the services? Who benefits?
A transparent ledger to reward good farming.
Some agricultural practices generally make the soil better, and can help a farm become more resilient to weather (and economic) challenges. Other practices can have the opposite effect.
We make use of Europe’s observational satellite systems as an “eye in sky” to provide a transparent overview of farming practices implemented over multiple years. In turn, we offer complementary spatial tracking of results in terms of soil benefits.
This information is essential to support the financial assessment of a farm’s value, as well as providing key input for improved premium/loan conditions to reward improved farm resilience.
How do they fit into wider project goals?
We have seen that sustainable farming practices lead to a farm resilience premium.
The soil passport provides a transparent means for farmers to prove it. By working with financial institutions in two countries, the project shows how this can lead to financial benefits for farmers.
What are the services? Who benefits?
Confidently predict your benefits from carbon farming.
We are developing a significant step beyond the state of the art in assessing carbon farming potential with our calculator, improving precision with minimal additional complexity.
We combine spatial field data with time series from satellite data to inform expectations for farms of any size (and any location).
How do they fit into wider project goals?
Calculating potential benefits and returns is key to informing decision-making, particularly for large business-focused farms. Our tool informs the decision-making process for farmers looking to adopt sustainable practices, helping to address large uncertainty and help calibrate expectations.
What are the services? Who benefits?
Track the economic performance of every square metre of your fields, and tinker with decisions to optimise your profits.
The next step in precision farming, this tool allows farmers to integrate existing field data from precision equipment to calculate profitability across a spatial dimension. In turn, they can compare between seasons and crops, simulating changes in farm practices to optimise environmental and economic benefits.
How do they fit into wider project goals?
Improving the “precision” of precision agriculture will lead to greater nutrient use efficiency and economic benefits from farmers.
The tool was also developed to identify non-profitable field areas to allow farmers to convert these places to nature zones.
What are the services? Who benefits?
A smart approach for soil carbon monitoring.
A state-of-the-art uncertainty-based approach to mapping soil carbon using satellite data integrated with soil sampling data, with advanced interpolation features to deliver spatial coverage.
The spatial aspect is key to ensure high precision in tracking carbon changes over time. Importantly, our uncertainty-based approach allows us to make a smart sample design: pinpointing where to take samples to maximise “benefits” to improving the soil map.
How do they fit into wider project goals?
Tracking soil changes is practically challenging and can be very costly. A spatial approach, which recognises differences within a field as much as between fields, is key to ensuring high precision required for monitoring soil improvements. Our tool delivers a robust spatial approach at a low cost, ensuring that periodic investments in soil sampling yield the highest returns in mapping agricultural fields.
