Vaisala Quanterra
Ecosystem Monitoring Service
Continuous flux monitoring for actionable insights as a service.
Enter the next era of climate insights
Most carbon monitoring relies on infrequent and expensive snapshots, leaving organizations uncertain about the real climate impact of their mitigation efforts. Quanterra Ecosystem Monitoring Service gives you the scientific proof needed to turn your sustainability efforts into verifiable, trustworthy outcomes.
We deploy and operate measurement stations that continuously monitor your ecosystem based on the Eddy Covariance approach, and deliver real-time insights on exactly how much carbon your land is capturing or emitting.
Key benefits
Continuous site-specific monitoring
Measures continuously at your site and provides results every 30 minutes, rather than infrequent samples and snapshots. This captures real-time ecosystem responses to weather and management practices on an on-going basis.
Affordable as-a-service model
Makes atmospheric flux monitoring viable without investing in expensive equipment or complex data processing — or worrying about hardware use and maintenance.
Verifiable impact data
Demonstrates the effectiveness of your land management interventions, helping you optimize efforts and achieve measurable results for carbon accounting, supply chain commitments, or carbon credit schemes.
Readily processed, objective data
Delivers insights that you can trust and act on to increase the return on your investment into enhancing carbon sequestration, improving ecosystem resilience and soil health.
Applicable across ecosystems
Applicable across farmland, grassland, forests, and peatland ecosystems, even in remote locations.
Affordable as-a-service model
Our as-a-service model makes rigorous atmospheric monitoring affordable and accessible. We handle everything from measurement station deployment to data processing – so you can focus on optimizing your climate actions and land management interventions.
With an affordable subscription fee, you get processed data through a user-friendly web interface or API, with no hardware investment, installation, maintenance, or specialized expertise required. The verifiable data helps you demonstrate impact to stakeholders.
Trusted technology, proven results
The Eddy Covariance approach is the gold standard in ecosystem flux measurement, trusted by researchers worldwide for decades. It is more scalable than sampling, more granular than satellite-based approaches, and more reliable than models alone.
- Millions of measurements daily
- Carbon, water and energy fluxes every 30 minutes
- Insights delivered daily
- Scientifically robust meteorological approach
Applications
Agriculture & land use
Validate how your land management practices perform with continuous measurements. Make informed decisions based on near real-time data and demonstrate the impact of practice changes to stakeholders as soon as they come into affect.
Ecosystem research
Access high-quality primary data revealing carbon, water, and energy flows. Continuous 30-minute measurements provide granular insights for rigorous research without managing equipment or data processing.
Carbon markets
Increase the credibility of monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV). Improve the quality of your carbon credits with continuous, site-specific measurements to reduce uncertainty and buffer requirements whilst demonstrating permanence.
Expert article: How to meet GHG Protocol’s new requirements for carbon removals with continuous carbon monitoring
The GHG Protocol's new Land Sector and Removals Standard requires companies to prove carbon removals remain stored. Continuous carbon flux monitoring based on the Eddy Covariance approach provides the ongoing evidence needed to meet requirements.
Ready to measure your climate impact?
Stop estimating. Start measuring. Contact us to learn how Quanterra can support your climate goals.
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