ESA Database Project

Report, 2011

When assessing the environmental impact of technical systems for e.g. the purpose of technique or product development, system research and teaching or policy making, there is a need for environmental data on the technical processes of the systems. The purpose and goal of the ESA Database Project was to make LCI data produced at ESA, from 1990 to the present date, available online at the CPM LCA Database and to facilitate future online publishing. During the project, 162 process data sets have been published online, an increase of 30 % of processes in the database. Technical improvements of the software and the website interface have been made throughout the project and a start‐up method for future documenting and publishing at ESA has been made, containing the ESA DBP Quality Criteria, relevance directions and the description of the documenting and reviewing procedure.