Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment (SALCA)
Summary | ||
Name of source | Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment | |
Provider | Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon | |
Summary text | The SALCA database (Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment database) contains over 700 modules relating to agriculture with agricultural and non-agricultural inputs, outputs and processes. The data stored are based on in house calculations, the ecoinvent database and on data imported from other LCA study inventories. | |
Contact | Thomas Nemecek | |
Licensing | By arrangement | |
Language(s) | German, English | |
Website | www.agroscope.admin.ch |
Access – data formats and accessibility | ||
File type | Database integrated for TEAM LCA software – although access to the SALCA database may be granted within the framework of project cooperation with Agroscope ART | |
Software needs | TEAM LCA |
Contents – breadth and depth of datasets | ||
Age | 2004 | |
Geography | Switzerland | |
Original Data Source(s) | Academic research | |
Other Databases Included | ||
Life cycle stages | Cradle-to-Gate | |
Modeling approach | ||
Emissions results | GWP | |
Number of datasets | +700 | |
Main topics | Agricultural production means | |
Other topics |
Data transparency – what metadata is provided for each dataset? | ||
System boundaries | Unknown | |
Data Types | Process | |
Allocation Methods | Unknown | |
Technology | Unknown | |
Data year | Unknown | |
Original source | Unknown | |
Uncertainty | Unknown |
Quality – is information provided on data quality? | ||
Data quality score | Unknown | |
Quality assurance | Unknown | |
Standards compliant | Unknown |