SOCKG | Soil Organic Carbon Knowledge Graph

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What is SOCKG?

The Soil Organic Carbon Knowledge Graph (SOCKG) enhances robust soil carbon modeling, which is crucial for voluntary carbon markets. These markets create incentives for climate-friendly practices by encouraging the retention of carbon in soil, reducing atmospheric carbon levels. Industry sectors, like energy and transportation, purchase carbon credits to offset unavoidable emissions, while farmers and land managers are rewarded for adopting practices that increase soil organic carbon (SOC). For these markets to function effectively, it is essential to have advanced soil carbon modeling technologies that accurately measure SOC content, predict changes, and link those changes to specific agricultural practices. High-quality data is central to this process. By integrating siloed data into a cohesive knowledge graph, linking it to broader datasets, and establishing infrastructure for its sustainability, SOCKG can play a transformative role in enabling and accelerating the growth of this emerging market.

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The soil organic carbon knowledge graph (SOCKG) supports robust soil carbon modeling for voluntary carbon markets. Carbon market provides a mechanism to incentivize climate-friendly practices that help reduce carbon in the air by keeping more carbon in soil. Industry sectors such as energy and transportation purchase carbon credits to offset their unavoidable carbon emissions. Farmers and land managers receive rewards for adopting agricultural practices that increase soil organic carbon. For the carbon market to be effective, it is crucial to have soil carbon modeling technologies to accurately measure soil organic carbon (SOC) content and predict SOC content change and attribute that change to agricultural practices. The key to the soil carbon modeling technology is high quality data. By bringing together existing data that are in silos to form a knowledge graph, connecting the KG with data in broader contexts, and setting up infrastructure for sustaining the KG, SOCKG can play a pivotal role in enabling the nascent and fast-growing carbon market.

Who uses it?

SOCKG provides policymakers, land administrators, environmental NGOs, advocacy groups, educators, and real estate professionals with accurate data and insights on soil carbon stocks, fluxes, and dynamics. This empowers them to make informed decisions in climate change mitigation, policy development, land use planning, educational programs, and real estate projects. By integrating and standardizing diverse data sources, SOCKG enables large-scale research and the development of more effective carbon sequestration strategies. Leveraging advanced querying techniques and machine learning models, SOCKG offers substantial support to soil carbon researchers, helping them predict soil carbon stocks and reduce uncertainties in studies related to soil organic carbon.

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SOCKG equips policymakers, land administrators, environmental NGOs, advocacy groups, educators, and realtors with precise data and insights on soil carbon stocks, fluxes, and dynamics, enabling them to make informed decisions regarding climate change mitigation, policy formulation, land use planning, educational teaching, and real estate development. SOCKG amalgamates and aligns different data sources, facilitating wider-scale research and more effective carbon sequestration strategies. By using advanced querying techniques and machine learning models, SOCKG significantly benefits soil carbon researchers, aiding them in predicting soil carbon stocks and addressing the uncertainty in soil organic carbon-related studies.




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