Flair soil comprises all necessary equipment in a single station for an autonomous, long term CO₂ baseline survey. It thus minimizes personnel costs and enhances data representativeness.

As it is, Flair soil is the only all-in-one device allowing for collecting meteorological data (temperature, pressure, wind direction, wind speed, precipitation intensity, precipitations type, irradiance), multiple point ground gas composition (CO₂, CH₄, O₂, H₂), soil water saturation, soil temperature and surface CO₂ flux, and providing an integrated data flux through wireless connection.

The Flair soil data throughput is handled by a server and stored in SQL database format. Custom visualization and statistical correlation tools are available in order to facilitate interpretations and define baseline conditions.

The scientific environment may also provide necessary equipment for mobile soil gas surveys in order to define first order status of the tested site. These includes soil gas probes, gas pumping and analysis equipment, mobile flux chamber and portable TDR volumetric water content probe.

Continuous monitoring of soil gas at the test site in Rueil-Malmaison may constitute a good framework for comparing other soil gas monitoring techniques, and/or benchmark different technologies.

The graph below shows the IFPEN soil respiration during year 2016.

The soil respiration has been modelled thanks to a semi-empirical equation. The main factors influencing the soil respiration are the temperature and barometric pressure.

The scientific team at IFPEN can also provide technical/scientific support for the development of soil gas monitoring technologies, and/or design of test sites.