Life cycle inventories and Unit processes of active spring frost protection methods applied in Loire Valley and Champagne regions

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The aim of this dataset is to present the Life Cycle Inventories (LCI) and the database's unit processes of six contrasted practices to protect 1 ha of vineyard in Loire Valley and Champagne regions from spring frost events. The dataset is created to favour open access sciences and is part of the phD research financed by the region Pays de la Loire in the frame of the ABRIGEL project. This phD project has the objective to assess the environmental impacts of Active Spring Frost Protection Methods (ASFPM) into a decision support perspective. The challenge of the analysis is to consider context-specific elements into the LCI modelling to be relevant enough for wine-growers and expert advisers. In this perspective, seven types of ASFPMs are identified as contrasted enough to develop a methodological framework considering different context-specific elements from the Loire Valley and Champagne regions. The cover, the antifrost candles, the wind machine, the sprinklers, the heaters, the heating and radiative cables are the analysed ASFPMs which aim to prevent buds from freezing during spring frost events, but differ from their natures; i.e.; installation, application, and removal practices. Furthermore, among one type of ASFPM, different energy sources and equipments can vary in function their users. To perform the LCI of the Val de Loire Region (V), on-site interviews with wine-growers and expert advisers have been conducted. All ASFPM's data from Champagne (C) comes from the CIVC institute based on interviews and expert advices: - Cover: one interview with a manufacturer and one interview with a winegrower. - Antifrost candles: one interview with a winegrower. - Wind machine: six interviews with six wine-growers. - Sprinkler: one interview with one winegrower. - Heater: one interview with one winegrower using peat and wood as energy sources. - Heating cable: one interview with one winegrower. The SIMAPRO software was used to model the LCI of the nine ASFPMs. The databases Ecoinvent 3.10 and Agribalyse 3.1.1. were used for background processes modeling. Each CSV file is presented below. With all the given information and the access to the used databases, the user should be able to model the different practices in any Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) software by consulting the corresponding UPR_ASFPM.csv and LCI_ASPM.csv files for checking analysis. The number following the ASFPM name of each file indicates a different practice which has been identified relevant to model. The last letter of the file (V or C) accounts for the region of the data collected.