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 | |