Patent ID: 8504252

Claim:
A system, comprising: a mobile unit, comprising: a position sensing device configured to track a location of a conservation tilling activity; a soil monitoring device configured to monitor one or more soil conditions at the location of the conservation tilling activity; and a first communication system configured to transmit a set of data about the location of the conservation tilling activity and the one or more soil conditions at the location of the conservation tilling activity; and a server computer in communication with the mobile unit, the server computer comprising: a second communication system configured to receive the set of data about the location of the conservation tilling activity and the one or more soil conditions at the location of the conservation tilling activity; a data store for storing the set of data; a processor in communication with the second communication system and the data store; and a computer readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions executable by the processor to cause the server computer to perform one or more operations, the set of instructions comprising: instructions to store the set of data at the data store; instructions to calculate, based at least in part on the set of data, an amount of atmospheric carbon released by the conservation tilling activity; instructions to verify, based at least in part on the calculated amount of carbon released by the conservation tilling activity, a carbon credit amount attributable to the conservation tilling activity; and instructions to generate output indicating the verified amount of carbon credit attributable to the conservation tilling activity.