Perennial, a prominent leader in measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV), recently launched Soil Ecosystem Maps, an interactive platform that highlights the company’s comprehensive soil health and soil organic carbon (SOC) datasets.
Supporting global food security and advancing regenerative agriculture requires scalable, global data that covers the full spectrum of soil ecosystems, including physical, biological, and chemical factors.
Soil Ecosystem Maps aims to address this need, providing stakeholders worldwide with access to crucial information about SOC sequestration potential, SOC levels, and emerging microbial health indicators, such as Carbon Use Efficiency and the Microbial Soil Temperature Index.
The new tool distinguishes itself from existing datasets by offering more accurate and detailed SOC measurements, integrating microbial evolution and biogeochemical processes into its SOC sequestration models, and introducing newly developed indices that deepen understanding of soil carbon storage and microbial activity.
Notable innovations include:
- SOC Sequestration Potential (SOCSPOT): A groundbreaking global dataset that offers long-term (30-year) estimates of SOC sequestration rates with 30-meter resolution worldwide, displayed at 500-meter intervals on the map. SOCSPOT was created using a unique hybrid modeling approach that combines microbial community adaptation to past climate and SOC conditions.
- Microbial Soil Health Indicators: Four pioneering indices that assess vital microbial functions influencing soil carbon dynamics.
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- ATLAS-SOC Core: A high-resolution dataset that enables large-scale SOC baseline measurements without the need for field sampling. ATLAS-SOC (Advanced Terrestrial Machine-Learning Analysis System for Soil Organic Carbon) utilizes over 350,000 soil samples, machine learning algorithms, and biophysically-informed predictors to deliver high accuracy at both project and field levels (up to 90% and 80%, respectively).
“Agriculture is a global effort, and it requires truly global data to support it,” said David Schurman, Perennial co-founder and CPO.
“We knew we needed to put our data into the hands of people everywhere, because in order to improve soil ecosystems we have to be able to measure them. Soil Ecosystem Maps allows farmers and ranchers, project developers, land managers, sustainability leads, and conservation organizations to see what’s possible.
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