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Terms of Use

  1. The Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) holds the copyright to all numeric and image data (referred to as gdatah below) supplied by FFPRI Forest Experimental Watershed Database.
  2. Use of the data is permitted for academic research or educational purposes. Use for commercial purposes is prohibited.
  3. If the application is considered to conflict with the scientific/educational purposes of other data users, it may be denied.
  4. All applicants are required to send application information along to gUsage Guideh. The information is examined by the researchers involved in observation of the experimental watersheds. When the application is approved, an ID and password with an expiration date will be sent via e-mail.
  5. Sharing the ID and password is prohibited. It is also prohibited to transfer, replicate and/or redistribute data to any other people.
  6. Although we do our best to ensure accuracy of the data, FFPRI does not take any responsible for whatever a user communicates about or concludes using the data. Also, note that the data may be corrected in future. When revisions are made, the date will be clearly indicated on the web page.
  7. To make the data more accurate, please tell us (below e-mail address) if any errors or mistakes are found.
  8. Data has been organized since the 1930fs through the long-term sustained effort of many scientists and technicians, and published in Bulletin of the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute and other journals. Therefore, when publishing a result that use the data, please clearly cite the data source, such as gBulletin of the Forestry and Forest Products Research Instituteh, etc.
  9. If results will be published, please tell us, with attaching documentation such as a reprint so the office is aware of the content.

[Contact]
Person in charge of FWDB, Department of Disaster Prevention, Meteorology and Hydrology
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8687, Japan
E-mail: fwdb@ffpri.affrc.go.jp