Dr. Gary Lanigan:

We will measure the baseline soil carbon content on all of those farms. In addition, we have our national agricultural soil carbon observatory. With that we are directly measuring the volume of CO2 being taken up and released by mineral grassland, peat grassland and under a variety of different soil types and a variety of different measurements. We then use those measurements to train the models and then utilise the models in conjunction with satellite data to extrapolate across the whole country.