About OGCR
The Intergenerational Open Geospatial Carbon Registry (OGCR) is a Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action running from June 2025 to June 2029. OGCR builds transparent, scientifically-validated and openly accessible geospatial carbon accounting tools for Europe — connecting the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the Carbon Removals & Carbon Farming (CRCF) Regulation to national inventories and voluntary carbon markets.
Our mission
Empower farmers, policymakers, researchers and communities across Europe with a trusted, open-source framework that links environmental responsibility with economic opportunity — so that the carbon benefits generated today can be verified, valued and shared across generations.
What OGCR will build
OGCR delivers three interlocking outcomes:
- Updatable pan-EU baseline layers for soil organic carbon, above- and below-ground biomass and peat.
- A hybrid modelling framework to explore management changes under CAP and CRCF initiatives.
- A globally applicable, open geospatial carbon registry that serves pan-EU.
The whole system is shaped through a genuinely transparent, stakeholder co-design and consultative process — interfacing CRCF and CAP activities with mandatory and voluntary markets. Above- and below-ground carbon reduction and farming activities are measured, monitored and independently verified.
How landholders participate
OGCR is designed to attract both small and large landholders through:
- An innovative geospatial carbon accountancy framework that fairly rewards landholders for avoiding and sequestering carbon over generations;
- Applicability to all lands, independent of management;
- Easy access to geospatial information on past, present and possible future states of soil carbon, biomass and peat under different management regimes.
Next-generation open data sets
OGCR will produce a suite of next-generation data sets, all released under an open data license:
| Product | Variable | Resolution | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soil organic carbon (3D+T) | SOC density | 10 m | 2017–2024+ |
| Soil organic carbon (3D+T) | SOC density | 30 m | 2000–2024+ |
| Above-ground biomass (2D+T) | AGB | 30 m | 2000–2024 |
| Above-ground biomass (2D+T) | AGB | 10 m | 2017–2024+ |
| Forest tree species distribution | Species | 10 m & 30 m | 2000–2024+ |
| CRCF hotspots | Hotspot index | 10 m & 30 m | 2024 |
These data sets are combined with the European digital cadastral data and with dynamic and fixed monitoring stations to power the OGCR API (about 120 TB of data), which serves:
- Basic geospatial layers for above- and below-ground biomass with prediction intervals (30 m, 2000–2024+; 10 m, 2017–2024+), national cadastral data and EU-wide administrative units;
- Aggregate outputs showing changes in biomass per administrative unit (cadastral unit and/or NUTS-3);
- Sampling designs per cadastral unit, including guidance on how to sample and how to submit & register data;
- A short report on how predictions were derived, how uncertainty was estimated and how to use the data.
Follow the project
- Datasets: Zenodo
- Publications: Zotero group
- Code, tutorials & blog posts: Codeberg
- Video recordings: TIB AV-Portal
Stay in touch
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