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Process by which chemical substances or mixtures are assessed for their hazardous properties and assigned to hazard classes and categories, with the aim of protecting human health and the environment. In the…

The AVV Baulärm applies to the operation of construction machinery on construction sites. It contains guidelines for noise immissions caused on construction sites, measurement methods and measures that can be…

A general term for all types of information that can be associated with a location on earth.

Raster or vector data is assigned to spatial coordinates within a coordinate reference system.

Act on the Protection against Harmful Environmental Effects Caused by Air Pollution, Noise, Vibrations, and Similar Phenomena (Federal Immission Control Act – BImSchG). It is intended to protect humans, wild and…

An internationally approved regulation designed to establish globally uniform criteria for the classification and labelling of hazardous chemical substances and mixtures.

Disturbing glare caused by solar reflections on reflective surfaces (solar parks, photovoltaic systems, glass facades, shiny facades, etc.) in the vicinity of or along traffic routes (road, rail, airport) can be…

An umbrella term for all global satellite navigation systems, such as GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou.

The US satellite navigation system.

Area-based /‘continuous’ objects whose properties are represented in a spatial grid. For example: .(geo)tif, .jpg/.jgw, .png/.pgw, .dmna, .grd.

A grid survey is a standardised procedure for determining odour immissions in the open air. See odour grid measurement.