A New Greenhouse Gas Monitoring System Implemented at IKBFU

A new Russian-made automatic monitoring system (KASM) was launched for the first time at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University's Rosyanka Carboniferous Landfill. With the help of this and other measuring systems, the employees of the Carboniferous site hope to obtain a significant amount of objective data on the fluxes of climatically active gases from various parts of the peatland.

The specialists of the Institute of Monitoring of Climate and Ecological Systems of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Tomsk) were engaged in the development and assistance in installation of KASM. KASM consists of eight transparent emission automatic cameras connected with a control module and a high-precision gas analyzer Li-850. Such a number of cameras allows organizing effective measurements of greenhouse gas fluxes in areas with heterogeneous vegetation structure consisting of different structural elements. A total of five such systems have been installed at the Carboniferous site, with one more planned to be launched this year. It is planned that similar complexes will be installed at the carbon polygons in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra and Tomsk Oblast.