Systems for Monitoring and Analytics for Renewable Transportation Fuels from Agricultural Resources and Management
Program Description:
The SMARTFARM program’s objective is to bridge the data gap in the biofuel supply chain by funding technologies that can quantify feedstock-related emissions at the field-level and enable new market incentives for efficiency in feedstock production and carbon management. The value of such technologies lies in their ability to reliably, accurately (i.e., low uncertainty), and cost-effectively quantify feedstock production life cycle emissions (in g CO2e/acre) at the field level (i.e., scalable to >80 acres).The SMARTFARM program is structured in two initial phases:
1. Phase 1 will establish open-source, high-resolution datasets to support testing and validating emerging monitoring technologies. These production sites will be outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment and monitored on a per-acre basis.
2. Phase 2 will fund technologies capable of delivering the same estimates, at or below specified uncertainty levels, at a cost capable of delivering a positive return on investment when field-level carbon emissions reductions are connected to associated biofuel carbon markets. The SMARTFARM program will subject Phase 2 technologies to rigorous testing to demonstrate performance in relevant deployment scenarios. Successful projects in this second phase of the program will be encouraged to partner with Phase 1 site managers to deploy and validate their technologies.
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Project Listing
• Michigan Aerospace Corporation - DroN2O: A Drone-Based System for Measuring Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agricultural Fields
• Princeton University - NitroNet: Smart System to Quantify Nitrous Oxide Emissions
• Soil Health Institute - A Rapid In-Field System to Measure Deep Soil C Stock
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) - The “System of Systems” Solutions for Commercial Field-Level Quantification of Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrous Oxide Emission for Scalable Applications (SYMFONI)
• University of Utah - Soil Organic Carbon Networked Measurement System (SOCNET)