# ICE Commodity Traceability **Entity class:** Supply-chain traceability and compliance platform **Aliases:** ICE CoT ## Definition **ICE Commodity Traceability (ICE CoT)** is a platform operated and licensed by [[wiki/ICE Benchmark Administration|ICE Benchmark Administration]] to support due-diligence and traceability workflows for cocoa and coffee under the EU Deforestation Regulation. It stores, tests, and shares farm-plot geolocation, lawful-production and risk information, and physical-flow traceability data. Its farm-plot methodology uses forest mapping licensed from [[wiki/Space Intelligence|Space Intelligence]], protected-area information, and consistency tests. Published Space Intelligence documentation describes optical satellite data, [[wiki/Synthetic Aperture Radar|SAR]], LiDAR, terrain variables, machine learning, and local ecological expertise. A failed test is a platform result under a methodology, not a judicial finding. ## Data model and physical-flow identity ICE CoT evaluates three broad classes of information: 1. **farm-plot data**, including geolocation and country/commodity identifiers; 2. **lawful-production and compliance-risk information**; and 3. **physical-flow traceability data** describing transport, storage, processing, aggregation, splitting, and merging. Farm polygons may be submitted in **GeoJSON**. The resulting **traceability tree** connects a consignment backward through aggregators and control points toward constituent production plots. The platform’s risk environment can incorporate forest and protected-area information, corruption and rule-of-law indicators, conflict and sanctions information, and indigenous-peoples risk data. This creates a **digital provenance envelope** around a physical commodity. Coffee or cocoa is represented not only by quantity, grade, origin, contract, and price, but by coordinates, plot identities, environmental classifications, supply-chain events, documentary evidence, and risk states. ## Consolidated supporting records ### Digital Provenance Envelope **Entity class:** Analytic concept A **digital provenance envelope** is the accumulating informational identity attached to a physical object: coordinates, source identifiers, environmental classifications, legal and compliance evidence, custody and transformation events, risk states, and validation results. It is an editorial name for the combined data object, not an official ICE product term. ### Traceability Tree **Entity class:** Supply-chain data structure A **traceability tree** connects a physical consignment backward through supply-chain events, facilities, aggregators, and constituent source plots. Branching is required because commodities can be aggregated, split, merged, processed, stored, and transported. **Sources:** [ICE Commodity Traceability](https://www.ice.com/iba/commodity-traceability-service) ### GeoJSON **Entity class:** Geospatial data format **GeoJSON** is a JSON-based format for representing geographic features and geometries such as points, lines, polygons, and collections, together with properties. In traceability systems, a farm boundary can be represented as a polygon whose coordinates are checked against forest, protected-area, and other spatial layers. **Sources:** [RFC 7946 — The GeoJSON Format](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7946); [ICE CoT public methodology](https://www.ice.com/publicdocs/ICE_CoT_Public_Methodology.pdf) ## Relationships - **operator:** [[wiki/ICE Benchmark Administration|ICE Benchmark Administration]]. - **parent ecosystem:** [[wiki/Intercontinental Exchange|Intercontinental Exchange]]. - **mapping provider:** [[wiki/Space Intelligence|Space Intelligence]]. - **data chain:** farm plot → forest/protected-area tests → physical commodity parcel → due-diligence statement. - **conceptual route:** [[wiki/Observation-to-Decision Stack|Observation-to-Decision Stack]], [[wiki/Supply Chain Intelligence|Supply Chain Intelligence]], and [[wiki/Machine-Readable Policy|Machine-Readable Policy]]. - **regulatory route:** [[wiki/European Union Deforestation Regulation|European Union Deforestation Regulation]]. - **provenance route:** [[wiki/Computable Provenance|Computable Provenance]], **Traceability Tree**, and **Digital Provenance Envelope**. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [ICE Commodity Traceability](https://www.ice.com/iba/commodity-traceability-service) - [ICE CoT public methodology](https://www.ice.com/publicdocs/ICE_CoT_Public_Methodology.pdf) - [Space Intelligence — ICE CoT EUDR maps](https://www.ice.com/publicdocs/Space_Intelligence_ICE_CoT_EUDR_Deforestation_Maps.pdf)