Summary
| Name of source | Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment |
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| 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 |
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| Software needs | TEAM LCA |
Contents – breadth and depth of datasets
| Age | 2004 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Quality assurance | Unknown |
| Standards compliant | Unknown |
