MRV Technology
If we cannot measure project progress and outcomes, we cannot understand what is working and not working. This information is essential for our farmers to make practice-based decisions and our buyers to ensure the outcomes they are paying for mean something.
The EcoHarvest MRV is a digital system that connects farms directly to reliable GHG and outcomes accounting, helping agribusinesses hit their sustainability goals. The technology includes:
- Measurement: Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and reductions
- Monitoring: Tracking practices and impacts over time.
- Reporting: Synthesizing and reporting findings.
- Verification: Ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the data.
EcoHarvest is one of only two programs in North America to achieve program certification with 3rd-party verification body SustainCERT. We developed our EcoHarvest MRV platform to cost-effectively collect, store, and manage data to support EcoHarvest program operations. We use the latest in geospatial technology to produce a land ledger that tracks ecosystem service outcomes across the landscape. Our process is as private and secure as it is profitable. We are adamant in continuing to further refine our data collection process, seeking more and more ways to improve to decrease data burdens and make our program easier for farms and ranches to participate in with success. Learn more about what types of data filter into the MRV.
Better remote sensing tools and technologies will improve quantification and verification processes for outcomes buyers as well as farmers and ranchers. Ongoing pilot projects and ground-truthing components generate confidence in the value of ecosystem services while demonstrating increased value to farmers.
HabiTerre provides our program exclusive project modeling for EcoHarvest data in the U.S. using their third-party validated model. The combination of advanced modeling, remote sensing, and AI further reduces the data collection burden on both ESMC staff and EcoHarvest farmers. An example of remote sensing technologies is OpTis – Operational Tillage Information System (OpTIS) – which uses satellite imagery to track annual trends in tillage and cover crop adoption. Learn more about OpTIS in the video below.
