In the Federal Republic of Germany, analyses to determine the constituents of mosses were carried out at five-year intervals from 1990 to 2005 and in 2015/16 and 2020/21. The focus was on analysing heavy metals, and from 2005/06 also nitrogen. Since 2015/16, the range of substances has been expanded to include persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and microplastics. This moss monitoring is the German contribution to the European moss monitoring programme, which is coordinated by the ‘International Cooperative Programme on Effects of Air Pollution on Natural Vegetation and Crops’ (ICP Vegetation) of the Geneva Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). The German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt - UBA) has commissioned various institutions to carry out the individual sampling campaigns and analyse the results of the investigations, including the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) for moss monitoring in 1995/96. The UBA has published the results of subsequent monitoring years. They are available at https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/luft/bioindikation-von-luftverunreinigungen. With 1026 sites, the 1995/96 moss monitoring is, alongside the 2000 moss monitoring, the one with the greatest sample density and, with 40 analysed elements, the one with the widest range of investigations. Although the research reports completed in 1998 and 1999 (Siewers & Herpin, 1998; Siewers, Herpin & Straßburg, 1999) contained an evaluation (brief description, statistical measures, distribution maps) of all 40 elements analysed, only the data of 12 of the analysed elements have been published to date. In addition, the raw data from the laboratories available as a result of the analyses were re-evaluated in 2007. This resulted in a series of error corrections and the analysable element spectrum was extended to 42 elements. The results of this re-evaluation have also not yet been published. The additional processing of the data using modern methods has further enhanced their value. The downloads show the distribution of rubidium concentrations in four different coloured dot and colour shaded contour maps. The legends of the maps can be called up either in the unit of measurement µg/g or in a unit of measurement adapted to the content range of the element shown.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, analyses to determine the constituents of mosses were carried out at five-year intervals from 1990 to 2005 and in 2015/16 and 2020/21. The focus was on analysing heavy metals, and from 2005/06 also nitrogen. Since 2015/16, the range of substances has been expanded to include persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and microplastics. This moss monitoring is the German contribution to the European moss monitoring programme, which is coordinated by the ‘International Cooperative Programme on Effects of Air Pollution on Natural Vegetation and Crops’ (ICP Vegetation) of the Geneva Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). The German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt - UBA) has commissioned various institutions to carry out the individual sampling campaigns and analyse the results of the investigations, including the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) for moss monitoring in 1995/96. The UBA has published the results of subsequent monitoring years. They are available at https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/luft/bioindikation-von-luftverunreinigungen. With 1026 sites, the 1995/96 moss monitoring is, alongside the 2000 moss monitoring, the one with the greatest sample density and, with 40 analysed elements, the one with the widest range of investigations. Although the research reports completed in 1998 and 1999 (Siewers & Herpin, 1998; Siewers, Herpin & Straßburg, 1999) contained an evaluation (brief description, statistical measures, distribution maps) of all 40 elements analysed, only the data of 12 of the analysed elements have been published to date. In addition, the raw data from the laboratories available as a result of the analyses were re-evaluated in 2007. This resulted in a series of error corrections and the analysable element spectrum was extended to 42 elements. The results of this re-evaluation have also not yet been published. The additional processing of the data using modern methods has further enhanced their value. The downloads show the distribution of selenium concentrations in four different coloured dot and colour shaded contour maps. The legends of the maps can be called up either in the unit of measurement µg/g or in a unit of measurement adapted to the content range of the element shown.

BGR conducted an airborne survey in the region of the Hadelner Marsch in cooperation with the GGA Institute (now LIAG) as well as with the water suppliers of Land Hadeln and Wingst. The survey area Hadelner Marsch (2004) is bounded by the river Elbe to the north and by the settlements Bederkesa and Lamstedt to the south. The size of the area is about 700 km². The area was surveyed with 20 flights totalling to 3019 line-km (771,397 survey points). The nominal separation of the 117 ESE-WNW lines and 13 NNE-SSW tie lines was 250 m and 2000 m, respectively. The two ASCII datafiles contain the raw data as well as the processed HEM data at the five frequencies of the HEM system (0.4 - 140 kHz).

In the Federal Republic of Germany, analyses to determine the constituents of mosses were carried out at five-year intervals from 1990 to 2005 and in 2015/16 and 2020/21. The focus was on analysing heavy metals, and from 2005/06 also nitrogen. Since 2015/16, the range of substances has been expanded to include persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and microplastics. This moss monitoring is the German contribution to the European moss monitoring programme, which is coordinated by the ‘International Cooperative Programme on Effects of Air Pollution on Natural Vegetation and Crops’ (ICP Vegetation) of the Geneva Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). The German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt - UBA) has commissioned various institutions to carry out the individual sampling campaigns and analyse the results of the investigations, including the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) for moss monitoring in 1995/96. The UBA has published the results of subsequent monitoring years. They are available at https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/luft/bioindikation-von-luftverunreinigungen. With 1026 sites, the 1995/96 moss monitoring is, alongside the 2000 moss monitoring, the one with the greatest sample density and, with 40 analysed elements, the one with the widest range of investigations. Although the research reports completed in 1998 and 1999 (Siewers & Herpin, 1998; Siewers, Herpin & Straßburg, 1999) contained an evaluation (brief description, statistical measures, distribution maps) of all 40 elements analysed, only the data of 12 of the analysed elements have been published to date. In addition, the raw data from the laboratories available as a result of the analyses were re-evaluated in 2007. This resulted in a series of error corrections and the analysable element spectrum was extended to 42 elements. The results of this re-evaluation have also not yet been published. The additional processing of the data using modern methods has further enhanced their value. The downloads show the distribution of zirconium concentrations in four different coloured dot and colour shaded contour maps. The legends of the maps can be called up either in the unit of measurement µg/g or in a unit of measurement adapted to the content range of the element shown.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, analyses to determine the constituents of mosses were carried out at five-year intervals from 1990 to 2005 and in 2015/16 and 2020/21. The focus was on analysing heavy metals, and from 2005/06 also nitrogen. Since 2015/16, the range of substances has been expanded to include persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and microplastics. This moss monitoring is the German contribution to the European moss monitoring programme, which is coordinated by the ‘International Cooperative Programme on Effects of Air Pollution on Natural Vegetation and Crops’ (ICP Vegetation) of the Geneva Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). The German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt - UBA) has commissioned various institutions to carry out the individual sampling campaigns and analyse the results of the investigations, including the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) for moss monitoring in 1995/96. The UBA has published the results of subsequent monitoring years. They are available at https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/luft/bioindikation-von-luftverunreinigungen. With 1026 sites, the 1995/96 moss monitoring is, alongside the 2000 moss monitoring, the one with the greatest sample density and, with 40 analysed elements, the one with the widest range of investigations. Although the research reports completed in 1998 and 1999 (Siewers & Herpin, 1998; Siewers, Herpin & Straßburg, 1999) contained an evaluation (brief description, statistical measures, distribution maps) of all 40 elements analysed, only the data of 12 of the analysed elements have been published to date. In addition, the raw data from the laboratories available as a result of the analyses were re-evaluated in 2007. This resulted in a series of error corrections and the analysable element spectrum was extended to 42 elements. The results of this re-evaluation have also not yet been published. The additional processing of the data using modern methods has further enhanced their value. The downloads show the distribution of gallium concentrations in four different coloured dot and colour shaded contour maps. The legends of the maps can be called up either in the unit of measurement µg/g or in a unit of measurement adapted to the content range of the element shown.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, analyses to determine the constituents of mosses were carried out at five-year intervals from 1990 to 2005 and in 2015/16 and 2020/21. The focus was on analysing heavy metals, and from 2005/06 also nitrogen. Since 2015/16, the range of substances has been expanded to include persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and microplastics. This moss monitoring is the German contribution to the European moss monitoring programme, which is coordinated by the ‘International Cooperative Programme on Effects of Air Pollution on Natural Vegetation and Crops’ (ICP Vegetation) of the Geneva Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). The German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt - UBA) has commissioned various institutions to carry out the individual sampling campaigns and analyse the results of the investigations, including the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) for moss monitoring in 1995/96. The UBA has published the results of subsequent monitoring years. They are available at https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/luft/bioindikation-von-luftverunreinigungen. With 1026 sites, the 1995/96 moss monitoring is, alongside the 2000 moss monitoring, the one with the greatest sample density and, with 40 analysed elements, the one with the widest range of investigations. Although the research reports completed in 1998 and 1999 (Siewers & Herpin, 1998; Siewers, Herpin & Straßburg, 1999) contained an evaluation (brief description, statistical measures, distribution maps) of all 40 elements analysed, only the data of 12 of the analysed elements have been published to date. In addition, the raw data from the laboratories available as a result of the analyses were re-evaluated in 2007. This resulted in a series of error corrections and the analysable element spectrum was extended to 42 elements. The results of this re-evaluation have also not yet been published. The additional processing of the data using modern methods has further enhanced their value. The downloads show the distribution of magnesium concentrations in four different coloured dot and colour shaded contour maps. The legends of the maps can be called up either in the unit of measurement µg/g or in a unit of measurement adapted to the content range of the element shown.

The map ”Organic Matter Content of Top-Soils in Germany 1:1,000,000 (INSPIRE)” highlights the results of a Germany-wide compilation of typical soil organic matter contents in top-soils differentiated according to groups of soil parent material, four climatic areas and the main land use. The evaluation is based on more than 9000 soil data profiles with information about Soil Organic Matter (SOM) from a period of about 20 years. The report 'The Organic Matter Content of Top-Soils in Germany', BGR Archive, No. 0127036 (in German) documents the methodology. To transform the organic matter content (of the original dataset HUMUS1000OB) into INSPIRE-relevant organic carbon content (CORG1000OB), we applied the van Bemmelen factor (1.724). According to the “Data Specification on Soil“ (D2.8.III.3_v3.0) and the “Guidelines for the use of Observations & Measurements and Sensor Web Enablement-related standards in INSPIRE“ (D2.9_v3.0) the content of the map “Organic Matter Content of Top-Soils in Germany 1:1,000,000“ is stored in a single INSPIRE-compliant GML file: buek1000-humus-ob_SoilDerivedObject.gml. The data has been transformed into the following INSPIRE-Feature Types (Spatial Object Types): “SoilDerivedObject“, “OM_Observation“ and “OM_Process“. The GML file together with a Readme.txt file is provided in ZIP format (BUEK1000-HUMUS-OB-INSPIRE.zip). The Readme.text file (German/English) contains detailed information on the GML file content. Data transformation was proceeded by using the INSPIRE Solution Pack for FME according to the INSPIRE requirements.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, analyses to determine the constituents of mosses were carried out at five-year intervals from 1990 to 2005 and in 2015/16 and 2020/21. The focus was on analysing heavy metals, and from 2005/06 also nitrogen. Since 2015/16, the range of substances has been expanded to include persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and microplastics. This moss monitoring is the German contribution to the European moss monitoring programme, which is coordinated by the ‘International Cooperative Programme on Effects of Air Pollution on Natural Vegetation and Crops’ (ICP Vegetation) of the Geneva Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). The German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt - UBA) has commissioned various institutions to carry out the individual sampling campaigns and analyse the results of the investigations, including the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) for moss monitoring in 1995/96. The UBA has published the results of subsequent monitoring years. They are available at https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/luft/bioindikation-von-luftverunreinigungen. With 1026 sites, the 1995/96 moss monitoring is, alongside the 2000 moss monitoring, the one with the greatest sample density and, with 40 analysed elements, the one with the widest range of investigations. Although the research reports completed in 1998 and 1999 (Siewers & Herpin, 1998; Siewers, Herpin & Straßburg, 1999) contained an evaluation (brief description, statistical measures, distribution maps) of all 40 elements analysed, only the data of 12 of the analysed elements have been published to date. In addition, the raw data from the laboratories available as a result of the analyses were re-evaluated in 2007. This resulted in a series of error corrections and the analysable element spectrum was extended to 42 elements. The results of this re-evaluation have also not yet been published. The additional processing of the data using modern methods has further enhanced their value. The downloads show the distribution of zinc concentrations in four different coloured dot and colour shaded contour maps. The legends of the maps can be called up either in the unit of measurement µg/g or in a unit of measurement adapted to the content range of the element shown.