MENSURIS is a research platform specializing in relating physical measurements to the economics of valuing forest ecosystems. Our challenge is to provide scientific information and analysis to make wise decisions on the future of the world's natural resources, reducing barriers to communicating results, while ensuring the integrity of the research record. By connecting knowledge to innovations that address changes in land use and climate, we contribute to the development of techniques and analytical methods to measure the impact of these changes on ecological functions in novel ways.

The platform has a strong collaboration among experts to produce models and practical solutions in regards to achieving sustainable reforestation of degraded areas and protecting biodiversity. For the initial project, we define sources and sinks for atmospheric greenhouse gases and pollutants to quantify potentially damaging alterations to natural, agricultural, and urban environments.

As the project develops, these estimates are detailed fully to portray interactions between gases in the atmosphere, plant cover, water and soils, to simulate impacts from concentrations and deposition fluxes. By driving models with time series of the actual fluxes, then it is possible to learn how ecosystems respond to simulated and observed changes to address specific ecological or environmental questions.