The Open Farm Carbon Tracker is a community project and we welcome contributions from anyone!

Useful links: README

Non-code contributions

There are several ways that you can contribute to the OFCT without coding. These are:

• Contributing with data sources and references for parameters
• Report bugs and issues
• Make suggestions for improvements or discuss methodologies
• Translating the OFCT app to a new language (COMING SOON)

Reporting bugs, issues or suggestions for improvements

If you experience a bug or an issues, please check here. If the bug or issue is not represented in the current posts, please create your own and describe the problem.

If you would like to suggest improvements or join discussions about methodologies you can join the discussions forum

Contributing sources for parameters

Source for emission factors and other parameters can be added for each country without coding.

Emission factors for fuel

For fuel emission factors, go to src/energy/data/emission_factor_fuel.csv.

To add a source, edit the values for a specific type of fuel.

Country specific emission factors for electricity

For electricity emission factors, go to src/energy/data/emission_factor_electricity.csv.

To add a source, edit the kgeq C02/Unit and SOURCE for a specific country.

Contributing to development

Methodologies and model development

The long term strategy of the Open Farm Carbon Tracker is to improve modelling from Tier 1 towards Tier 2 and 3. We welcome any contributions that can:

• evaluate, scrutinize and improve already implemented methodologies
• increase methodologies from Tier 1 to Tier 2 and 3

Parsing open datasets for automated data integration

The aim with the OFCT is to leverage several open datasets to quickly populate input data for establishing a baseline scenario for a farm.

• LPIS data for land-use and crop data.

Land-use and crop data from LPIS datasets

Each country (Or region) has their own LPIS data format which is updated once or several times a year. LPIS data integeration is currently being developed for the following countries:

• Denmark (DK)

The following countries have high priority:

• Czech Republic (CZ)
• France (FR)
• Netherlands (NL)
• Finland (FI)

Adding LPIS crop reference files

The OFCT use LPIS crop reference codes to pre-fill most current crop references for specific countries.

The crop references are located in /ui/source/data. Several files can be added for each country, with crop references for specific years. To add a new LPIS crop reference file for a specific country or region, create the file in the directory /ui/source/data and use the naming convention LPIS_[COUNTRY]_[YEAR].ts.

Example of crop reference code file: For an example of how a crop reference file can look we have an example for Denmark here: ui/source/data/LPIS_DK_2023.ts