Data Licence and Citation
The measurement data of the Forest Environmental Monitoring Brandenburg and the quantities derived from them are provided under the Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0). The provider is the State Forestry Agency Brandenburg (Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg), State Forest Competence Centre Eberswalde (LFE).
The licence permits commercial and non-commercial use: the data may be copied, modified, combined with other data and integrated into your own products and applications. The only condition is attribution.
Licence text (German and English): www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0
What the licence covers
- Time series of the intensive monitoring plots (ICP Forests Level II): meteorology, soil, crown condition, litterfall, needle and leaf analyses, dendrometers
- Inventory results, as far as they are available as data on this site
- Derived quantities: weather anomalies, climatic water balance, drought stress indices, modelled water balance components
- All means of delivery: charts and CSV download on this site, the REST API, the AI access (MCP) and the data repository on OpenCoDE
The texts, images, graphics and logo of this website are not covered by the data licence. The platform's source code is published under its own software licences (GPL-3.0-or-later or MIT), stated in the respective repositories on OpenCoDE.
Attribution
Every use must state:
Forstliche Umweltkontrolle Brandenburg, Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg / Landeskompetenzzentrum Forst Eberswalde – Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0), https://forstliche-umweltkontrolle.de
If the data have been modified, processed or combined with other data, this must be indicated in the attribution, for example by adding "data modified".
For individual datasets you may additionally name the dataset, such as the plot, the variable and the period, or the address of the page the data were downloaded from. The data repository in ICP Forests format is available at gitlab.opencode.de/lfe/fuk/icp-forests/fuk-icp-data.
Data of the German Meteorological Service
Some analyses include data of the German Meteorological Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD), for example the 1991–2020 reference period of the weather anomalies and the climatic water balance, and the gap filling of individual time series. The DWD also provides its data under the Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0. Anyone reusing such analyses names the DWD as well:
Data basis: Deutscher Wetterdienst, own elements added
Which values are measured and which are modelled or supplemented from DWD data is shown by the origin code in the data, see Gap filling.
Suggested citation for scientific work
Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg, Landeskompetenzzentrum Forst Eberswalde (year of retrieval): Forstliche Umweltkontrolle Brandenburg – measurement data of the forest environmental monitoring (ICP Forests Level II). https://forstliche-umweltkontrolle.de, retrieved DD.MM.YYYY. Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0.
A DOI for the curated datasets is in preparation.
Questions
Questions about the use of the data and the API are answered by the State Forest Competence Centre Eberswalde, see Imprint.