Patent ID: 11861625
Assignee: CIBO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A  Y | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for monitoring implementation and maintenance of regenerative management practices in agricultural parcels, the method comprising:
via a server:
first determining baseline management practices for a first agricultural parcel;
first simulating crop growth for the first agricultural parcel for a prescribed number of growing seasons using said baseline management practices;
first computing first average yearly greenhouse gas emissions components from first outputs of said first simulating crop growth and first aggregating the first average yearly greenhouse gas emissions components to yield baseline annual carbon dioxide equivalent emissions;
second determining regenerative management practices for the first agricultural parcel, wherein the regenerative management practices comprise regenerative tillage practices to improve carbon sequestration;
second simulating crop growth for the first agricultural parcel for the prescribed number of growing seasons using said regenerative management practices;
second computing second average yearly greenhouse gas emissions components from second outputs of said second simulating crop growth and second aggregating the second average yearly greenhouse gas emissions components to yield regenerative annual carbon dioxide equivalent emissions; and
subtracting the baseline annual carbon dioxide equivalent emissions from the regenerative annual carbon dioxide equivalent emissions to yield a first regenerative carbon footprint for the first agricultural parcel;

via communications circuits disposed in a client device:
transmitting acceptance of an offer to the server to implement the offered regenerative management practices for the first agricultural parcel; and

via the server:
employing remote sensing at a corresponding frequency to infer implementation of the regenerative management practices, said employing comprising:
via a processor disposed within the server:
removing images having missing data above a prescribed quality threshold;
retaining images having missing data below the prescribed quality threshold;
processing images not missing data that are time-adjacent to the retained images having missing data by estimating the missing data of the retained images having missing data using the images not missing data that are time-adjacent; and
for a given image of images not missing data and the retained images having missing data that was estimated, combining relevant spectral bands of the given image to generate composite vegetative indices for subparts of the first agricultural parcel; and

determining that the inferred implementation of the regenerative management practices is compliant with the offered regenerative management practices of the offer;
in response to determining that the inferred implementation of the regenerative management practices is compliant with the offered regenerative management practices of the offer:
transmitting an indication of compliance to a purchaser of carbon credits; and
transmitting signals that cause payment of an incentive corresponding to the offer for implementing the regenerative management practices.