Quantification and Decision Support Tools for US Agricultural Soil Carbon Sequestration

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Measurement of Soil Carbon Changes

• Model-based Estimation

  • Empirically based model approach — IPCC Tier I/Tier II method

  • Process-based model approach — COMET-VR

• Land Use and Management Activity Data

  • Ground-based observational databases

  • Remote sensing

• Integrated Measurement and Modeling for Soil Carbon Quantification

• Concluding Remarks

• Acknowledgments

• References