Lower Saxony soil information system
The Lower Saxony Soil Information System ( NIBIS for short ) is developed and managed by the State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG) .
All information on soil , geology and mining can be found in NIBIS . The spatial resolution ranges from a scale of 1: 500,000 up to an accuracy that enables parcel-specific information (1: 1,000). The system is structured in accordance with the recommendations of the Conference of Environment Ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany. The peculiarity of the system lies in its openness and in the integration of a so-called method bank system, which makes it possible not only to research data, but also to evaluate it for various purposes with the help of more than 200 evaluation methods. This system can be accessed via the Internet. The content is increasingly being offered via OGC-compliant services (WMS, WFS). Essential inquiries about data and evaluations of the NIBIS come from regional spatial planning, landscape planning, drinking water protection, agricultural planning, geothermal energy , contaminated sites and agricultural structure planning .