AgroFlux® is an integrated sensor-based research platform designed to explore carbon, nitrogen, and water cycling in agroecosystems. By combining high-precision infrastructural measurements systems like FluxCrane and IsoFlux with the scalable, low-cost approach such as aimed for in SensorWeb, AgroFlux enables multi-scale environmental monitoring - from controlled experiments to real-world farming systems. Its modular design supports process-level insights and global adaptability, helping bridge the gap between advanced science and practical, climate-smart agricultural solutions.
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The AgroFlux® research platform studies C, N, and water cycling in agroecosystems. Key components: a) 'FluxCrane' (automated gantry crane for GHG/ET fluxes, spectral/IR sensing); b) UAV remote sensing for upscaling; c) 'SensorWeb' (IoT network, proximal sensors); d) 'IsoFlux' (isotope monitoring); e) experiments on soil-plant-atmosphere processes. © Mathias Hoffmann (adopted according to
Hoffmann et al., 2025)
News
 AgroFlux at EGU 2026! At this year’s European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna our AgroFlux Team presented a rich variety of their results. Representing #SensorWeb, Milan Shay Kretschmar introduced EVE, a novel end-to-end monitoring pipeline with a use case in rewetted peatlands, while Hauke Schmülling CHASY LOCO, a low-cost methodology developed for measuring greenhouse gas fluxes in tropical peatland environments. Utilizing the #IsoFlux branch of our platform, Goekben Demir showcases multi-scale measurements across two contrasting years to reveal how drought alters water uptake patterns in winter cereal crops. Finally, Maren Dubbert addressed the audience of the session “Estimating evapotranspiration from in-situ and remote sensing methods” in a keynote, Maren Dubbert gave an overview of the #AgroFlux platform with a focus on advancing high-resolution spatial-temporal representation to improve our process-based understanding of how carbon and water interact within agricultural ecosystems.
#AgroFlux team members Mathias Hoffmann, Maren Dubbert, Marten Schmidt and Katja Kramp co-star with our #FluxCrane in a new ARTE documentary on novel ideas to improve nitrogen fertilization in agriculture. Find us here: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/119500-000-A/duenger-der-zukunft-die-stickstoff-revolution/ Teaching 1st graders about gas-exchange This week, #AgroFlux team members Maren Dubbert and Matthias Lück hosted a bunch of firstgraders to teach them about plants and gas-exchange. 22 seven year olds conducted a CO2 and water flux measurement and discussed what plants need to live and what they give us back. The Working Group for "Ecophysiology of Water and Matter Cycling (ECO)" at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) proudly presents the "Lab on Wheels", a mobile maker-space designed to support environmental monitoring and sensor development directly in field and more importnatly within the Global South. No lab? No tools? No problem! "Lab on Wheels" is a fully self-sufficient and independent of and laboratory infrastructure. Thus, the system enables researchers to build, program, and validate low-cost sensors in remote or resource-limited areas. By doing so, "Lab on Wheels" strengthens flexible, accessible, and decentralized environmental research. For more information, please see a detailed description at: https://zenodo.org/records/19628527. Hoffmann, M., Chen, C., Butterbach-Bahl, K., Ewert, F., Holz, M., Kiese, R., Augustin, J. & Dubbert, M.,
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