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Carbon Calculator is a kit to compute the LCA in cropland, developed in the framework of IT-HR GECO2 project.

Installation (Windows)

• download carbonCalculator_WIN64.zip
• unzip files on your local path, for example in C:\carbonCalculator

Prepare the data

• data for credits and debits computation can be entered in the CarbonCalculator google form
• you can test the input data for the credits computation with this TEST form (https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/1Gw6nlyhnI3iMNLgSk1AZQWuYMsK9TpLsZgLTIC9b6VU/edit?fromCopy=true)
• when the form is complete you can save the data as csv file ************* (specificare come)
• put your csv files in the directory carbonCalculator\data
• in the distribution you can found two test input files (testInputCredits.csv and testInputDebits.csv)

Run calculator

• run carbonCalculator\bin\carbonCalculator.exe
• load credits or debits csv files with the File menu
• compute credits or debits with the Run menu
• warning and error messages warn you if any data is wrong
• for each field a synthetic summary is provided: the carbon budget in CO2eq and if the credits satisfy the GECO2 specifications

Output

• the output file is a SQLite database, download https://sqlitebrowser.org/ to manage data
• the databases will be saved in the directory carbonCalculator\data
• see the table carbon_dynamics for ************* (info)
• see the table carbon_budget for ************* (info)