Appendix 7 — Dynamic Baseline and Performance Benchmark, with source code
Finca La Paz II (VCS 3594) · VM0047 v1.0, Appendix 1 · CONFIDENTIAL
These scripts are the property of Terra Global Capital and are commercially sensitive. They are designated as such in Appendix 4 of the Project Description of Finca La Paz II (VCS 3594) under VCS Standard v4.7, Section 3.5.2, and are provided to the validation/verification body as a confidential attachment. They are not part of the public documentation and are not to be published or redistributed.
This is the confidential edition of Appendix 7 of the Project Description of Finca La Paz II (VCS 3594), for the validation/verification body. It is the public appendix in full – the procedure, its equations and its annexes of parameters and calculation tables – followed by the three scripts that implement it, which the public edition does not carry.
This edition (November 2026) replaces the edition of October 2026. The stocking index is now the NDFI of Souza et al. (2005), computed from the five fixed endmembers of CODED (Bullock et al., 2020); observations outside the valid range of the surface reflectance product are removed; the donor plots are also screened on the MapBiomas Colombia land cover of 2018; the covariates of the matching are the stocking index of the historical years and the principal components of the 2018 bands; and the weights and the standardised differences of means are those of Equations (2) and (A2) of VM0047, Appendix 1. Every table, plot file and script of this appendix has been regenerated from the corrected calculation. Scripts 2 and 3 are version 2 of the scripts delivered earlier, and each change is marked v2 in the code (Table 19).
Withholding the code withholds no part of the method. VCS Standard v4.7, Section 3.5.4 does not permit the methodology or its application to be treated as commercially sensitive, and none of it is: every criterion, threshold, parameter and formula applied is stated in Appendix 7 and its annexes, and the ex-post results can be recomputed from the delivered data without these scripts. What is protected here is the implementation.