Background:

Soils of agricultural ecosystems can contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and thus to climate protection by increasing carbon sequestration. In order to better assess and localize this potential, more up-to-date, Germany-wide scale-specific information on the carbon contents of agriculturally used soils is needed.

Objectives:

The objective of the KoBoS project is to develop an extensible open source model for scale-specific topsoil SOC prediction. The result will be digital SOC maps of agricultural soils with uncertainty measures for different scale ranges and spaces in Germany.