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………….AUSTRALIAN GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS INFORMATION SYSTEM…………
Inventory Management &
Archiving
Australian Greenhouse Emissions
Information System
(AGEIS)
………….AUSTRALIAN GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS INFORMATION SYSTEM…………
AGEIS: Development
objectives
• Inventory Data Management ……
• National & set of 8 state & territory inventories
• Raw input data: 6,500 data points per year –
90,000 per submission
– Total input data/preliminary calcs: 50,000 per inventory
year - 600,000 per submission
– Emissions data - ……..now in the millions
– Notation keys……hundreds of thousands
• Problems for data management, and problems for
accessibility/usability
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AGEIS: Development
objectives
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Data management……
Upgrade QC systems
Replace unwieldy excel spreadsheeting
Reduce reliance on sectoral experts
Enhance public access to the data
Documentation systems – for review and for
durability
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Input Data Entry
QC
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Input Data Entry
Emissions Estimation
QC
Methods/
metadata
………….AUSTRALIAN GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS INFORMATION SYSTEM…………
Input Data Entry
Emissions Estimation
Core Data Base
(internal query)
QC
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Input Data Entry
QC
Emissions Estimation
OLAP/Excel
Database
(internal)
CRF pop.
Core Data Base
(internal query)
External Database
(Public/State
net access)
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Input Data Entry
Emissions Estimation
OLAP/Excel
Database
(internal)
Core Data Base
(internal query)
QC
Methods/
metadata
External Database
(Public/State
net access)
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AGEIS Development
• Significant time, resource and budgetary
commitment
• Significant software maintenance
commitment
• SQL
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www.ecandv.com.au
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AGEIS Data Management
Systems: key elements
• Separation of roles & responsibilities; user
accounts & privileges
• Standardised templates for input data entry
– System documents timing and author of data
inputs
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Standardised input data entry
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AGEIS Data Management
Systems
• Separation of roles & responsibilities and accounts
& privileges
• Standardised templates for input data entry
• System allocation of data into libraries
• Security of core input data
– Outer database workspace for analysts
– Transfer to core database by ‘Database Manager’
– Copied to external database for public access
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AGEIS: Integrated QC systems
• AGEIS now at heart of QA/QC plan
• System provides verification tools/tests for
input data & emissions outputs
– Records history of QC assessment & provides
for independent assessments
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AGEIS: QC systems
(Manager)
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AGEIS: public access:
interactive web interface
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AGEIS public access
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AGEIS: integrated
documentation systems
• Documentation of emissions estimation
methodologies
– Australian Methodology for the Estimation of Emissions
and Sinks 2002: series ….across 500 pages (2004)
• Update each year
– Emissions equations/factors - rationales for selection
• AGEIS links emissions data, method
documentation, SQL coding, input data
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Source, method documentation
& coding
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Clinker: coding
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Methodology, input data & tier
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AGEIS: Integrated
documentation systems
• Documentation of emissions estimation
methodologies
– Recreations feasible
– Methodology for any year may be combined
with past input datasets
– Necessary for system maintenance
• Documentation of metadata for data inputs
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Archiving / storage
• Estimation methodologies / equations…
• Input datasets
• Emission estimate datasets for three
submissions at any time
– emissions estimates can be recreated at any time
• Empirical research library (ongoing)
• Past NIRs, CRF Tables etc
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Next steps
• Development of broader national emission
accounts
• Linkages with AGO programmes
• Development of analytical tools
• Integrated uncertainty analysis
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• www.ageis.greenhouse.gov.au
(End May)