Global change affects all greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes making our future uncertain. Current GHG inventories and modeling frameworks suffer from severe data scarcity because current GHG flux measurement methods are costly or complicated and are difficult to extrapolate. Hence quantification and regulation remain uncertain for many of the large landscape-distributed GHG fluxes that can be highly climate sensitive.
This project aims to develop novel capacity towards large scale habitat-specific GHG flux measurements with UAVs (drones), measuring all that is needed on-board independent from other data (iUAV), i.e. all variables needed are measured simultaneously from the drone. The iUAV approaches will be evaluated and implemented at test sites, hypothesizing that a number of potentially large but not yet properly quantified fluxes are key for making comprehensive and well-constrained flux assessments for methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide.
Funding
Swedish Research Council, VR
