Commercialisation of the greenhouse gas monitoring system SkyLine2D

为了实现温室气体排放的全球目标，越来越需要测量土地利用和土地管理做法对温室气体排放的影响，对实现这些测量的新技术的需求越来越大。由于先前的NERC资助，约克大学（UoY）的研究人员和工程师开发了一种新技术SkyLine 2D，该技术克服了当前用于监测陆地温室气体通量的技术中固有的许多问题。SkyLine 2D采用将单个移动的室悬挂在地面上的独特方法，克服了现有小型地面自动室系统的许多局限性，这些系统非常昂贵，使用不灵活，对现场影响很大，无法测量许多植被类型。该后续基金项目的目标是进行关键的技术开发，同时获得相关的知识产权保护和产品认证，将SkyLine 2D转变为可行的商业产品。后续基金赠款的资金将用于进一步开发SkyLine 2D，以便能够携带或使用所有主要品牌的温室气体分析仪，并提供独立的机载二氧化碳监测器。我们还需要在数据记录和支持软件方面对现有原型进行改进。虽然我们已经有相当多的客户对购买SkyLine 2D感兴趣，但由于我们需要进行这些最后的技术开发，我们目前无法出售该系统。同样重要的是，在我们被允许向世界各地的客户销售设备之前，我们需要获得适当的电气和机械认证。我们的愿景是在约克成立一家小型的大学衍生公司SkyLine，雇用几名工程师和科学家，以及相关的销售和管理人员，销售SkyLine 2D温室气体监测平台，供世界各地使用。直接的明显好处是提供当地就业机会，而且还有助于收集重要的温室气体排放数据，以协助制定限制温室气体排放的土地使用管理政策;该设备可以成为我们寻求减少全球大气温室气体负担的管理战略的重要工具。

In order to meet the global targets for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, measurements of the effects of land use and land management practices on GHG emissions are increasingly needed, with a strong and growing requirement for new technologies to enable these measurements. Resulting from previous NERC funding, researchers and engineers at the University of York (UoY) have developed a novel technology, SkyLine2D, which overcomes many of the problems inherent in the current technologies used to monitor terrestrial GHG fluxes. Using the unique approach of suspending a single mobile chamber above the ground, SkyLine2D overcomes many of the limitations of existing, small ground-based auto-chamber systems, which are extremely expensive, inflexible in use, have a heavy site impact and are unable to measure over many vegetation types. The aims for this Follow-on Fund project are to make key technical developments, whilst obtaining relevant IP protection and product certification, that will turn SkyLine2D into a viable commercial product. Finance from the Follow-on Fund grant would be used to further develop SkyLine2D in order to be able to carry, or work with, all major brands of GHG analyser, as well as to provide an independent on-board carbon dioxide monitor. We also need to make improvements to the existing prototypes in terms of data logging and supporting software. Although we already have quite a number of customers interested in buying SkyLine2D we are unable, at present, to sell the system because of these final technical developments whiuch we need to make. Equally important is the requirement for appropriate electrical and mechanical certification before we are allowed to sell the equipment to customers around the world. The vision is for the establishment of a small University spin-out SkyLine company based in York, employing several engineers and scientists, with associated sales and administrative staff, selling SkyLine2D GHG monitoring platforms for use throughout the world. The immediate obvious benefit is to provide local employment, but also to facilitate the collection of important GHG emission data to assist in developing policies for land use management which limit GHG emissions; the equipment could be a vital tool in our search for management strategies for reducing the global atmospheric GHG burden.