OpenToolFlux: An Open-Source Software for Estimating Gas Fluxes from Automatic Chamber Data

Abstract

OpenToolFlux 1.0 is an open-source software designed to estimate soil gas fluxes from gas concentration time-series data generated by automatic chamber systems. This paper describes the physical equipment used as well as the software design and workflow. The software is a command-line application that imports tabular time-series data from the analyzer following the instructions specified in a configuration file by the user, performs configurable data-cleaning operations, and outputs a data file with volumetric flux estimates as well as diagnostic plots. The software can be configured according to the specifics of the physical equipment and experimental setups, and it is, therefore, applicable to a wide range of studies.

Keywords

software; gas flux estimation; data processing; automatic chamber; greenhouse gases

Published in

Agronomy
2023, volume: 13, number: 11, article number: 2842
Publisher: MDPI

SLU Authors

• Einarsson, Rasmus

  • Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Technical University of Madrid (UPM)

UKÄ Subject classification

Agricultural Science
Software Engineering

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13112842

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/127727