Copyright

Initiative to POLARIN GIS

POLARIN GIS has been developed from the INTERACT GIS and SITES GIS platforms as an initiative of SLU, and with SLU as the principal investigator. The development work has been ongoing since 2011 with primary funding from the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme and EU Horizon 2020(via INTERACT), as well as from the Swedish Research Council(via SITES) and latest POLARIN via Horizon Europe. According to Swedish copyright law, SLU owns the intellectual property rights to POLARIN GIS, SITES GIS and INTERACT GIS, and the right to freely develop the system and offer it to users freely determined by SLU.This applies regardless of the amount of open components in the final software.SLU is also free to choose administrative and operational organisations for POLARIN GIS, SITES GIS and INTERACT GIS.

References to POLARIN GIS

If and when POLARIN GIS is mentioned in the media, SLU’s intellectual property rights shall be referred to with the following reference:

Thierfelder T., et al., 2025: POLARIN GIS
Thierfelder, T., Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Energy & Technology, P.O.Box 7032, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.