Das Bodendauerbeobachtungsprogramm von Niedersachsen Methodik und Ergebnisse

On January 5, 1990 the Lower Saxonian government decided to set up a continuous soil monitoring programme. The idea of establishing a monitoring system for the environmental medium of soil is to have a means of early risk prediction as part of the basis that is needed for the sustentation of human existence. The decision was based on a resolution by the Lower Saxonian Government on June 25, 1985 to improve the information base for soil protection by establishing a soil cadastre, implementing special measures for problem areas, and setting up trial plots. In accordance with this decision the Lower Saxonian State Office for Soil Research (NLfB) has since 1985 been developing the Lower Saxonian Soil Information System NIBIS which contains an extensive body of digitally stored data on the distribution and properties of soils. Another measure to this end was the establishment of plots for continuous soil monitoring (BDF) to permit the long-term observation of influences on soil with respect to pollution and specific soil uses. This is an important prerequisite for developing preventive measures.Available from TIB Hannover / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman