Regionalization in Brightway2 — bw2-regional 0.4.2 documentation
Pandarus is a GIS software toolkit for regionalized life cycle assessment (LCA). It is designed to work with brightway LCA framework , brightway2-regional , and Constructive Geometries . A separate library, pandarus-remote , provides a web API to run Pandarus on a server.
In the context of life cycle assessment, regionalization means the introduction of detailed spatial information for inventory activities and impact assessment characterization maps. As these will have different spatial scales, GIS functionality is required to overlay these two maps. Pandarus can do the following:
The outputs from Pandarus can be used in LCA software which does not include a GIS framework, thus speeding the integration of regionalization into the broader LCA community. There is also a conference presentation video introducing Pandarus and its integration into LCA software .
Regionalization in Brightway2 — bw2-regional 0.4.2 documentation