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Assessment of the Biological Water Status: Fish
Regions and cities, Environment
Within the National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NAWA), water quality is recorded jointly by the federal and cantonal authorities at around 100 monitoring station...
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National Ecological Network REN, extensive agricultural area
Regions and cities, Environment
The National Ecological Network (REN) was developed in close collaboration with cantonal authorities for the protection of nature and landscapes. It issues a technical/sciencifi...
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Assessment of the Biological Water Status: Macrophytes
Regions and cities, Environment
Within the National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NAWA), water quality is recorded jointly by the federal and cantonal authorities at around 100 monitoring station...
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Interregional wildlife corridor
Regions and cities, Environment
First, known wildlife corridors were recorded from existing data at the cantonal level, and potential corridors were detected by GIS and then divided into wildlife corridors of ...
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Swiss National Park and parks of national importance (Perimeter)
Regions and cities, Environment
The dataset contains the protected area of the ‘Swiss National Park’, which is protected in accordance with the National Park Act of 19 December 1980 (SR454) as well as park pro...
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Water availability for plants
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
Too little water is available to the trees more and more often: •The vegetation and soil release water into the atmosphere, even moreso the warmer and drier the air. Plants evap...
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National Ecological Network REN, watercourses / lakes
Regions and cities, Environment
The National Ecological Network (REN) was developed in close collaboration with cantonal authorities for the protec-tion of nature and landscapes. It issues a technical/sciencif...
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National Ecological Network REN, wetland site
Regions and cities, Environment
The National Ecological Network (REN) was developed in close collaboration with cantonal authorities for the protec-tion of nature and landscapes. It issues a technical/sciencif...
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Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC)
Regions and cities, Environment
Within the National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NAWA), water quality is recorded jointly by the federal and cantonal authorities at around 100 monitoring station...
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Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Sulfur
Regions and cities, Environment
Interpolierte Element-Konzentrationen (mg/kg Feinerde) in den Oberböden (0–20 cm) der Schweiz. Für die Ordinary Kriging Interpolationen (1 km x 1 km) wurden Messdaten von insges...
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Tranquillity Map
Regions and cities, Environment
The "Tranquillity Map of the Swiss Plateau" illustrates where areas of near-natural character and low noise pollution still exist near large settlements within the Swiss Plateau...
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Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Total Phosphorus
Regions and cities, Environment
Within the National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NAWA), water quality is recorded jointly by the federal and cantonal authorities at around 100 monitoring station...
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Federal Inventory of Floodplains of National Importance - Appendix 2
Regions and cities, Environment
Floodplains, namely natural habitats in the flood zones of watercourses, are in decline. The scientific inventory of floodplains was commissioned by the FDHA in May 1981 and com...
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Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments
Regions and cities, Environment
Article 5 of the Federal Act of 1 July 1966 on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage (NCHA) orders the Federal Council to compile inventories of sites of national impor...
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Hydrogeological map of Switzerland 1:100000
Regions and cities, Environment
Published by the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, the specialist office of the Swiss Geological Survey responsible for hydrogeology.The hydrogeological map 1:100,000 sho...
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Ramsar sites in Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
To protect wetlands, particularly because they are habitats for waterbirds and migratory birds, an international convention was signed in 1971 in Ramsar, Iran. Switzerland ratif...
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Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Prunus laurocerasus
Regions and cities, Environment
The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring ...
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Amphibian observation and pond data (Aargau, Switzerland)
Education, culture and sport
In the canton of Aargau, hundreds of new ponds have been constructed since the 1990s to benefit declining amphibian populations. This dataset consists of monitoring data for all...
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Tree measurements 2002-2016 from the long-term irrigation experiment...
Education, culture and sport
To study the performance of mature Scots pine (_Pinus sylvestris_ L.) under chronic drought conditions in comparison to their immediate physiological response to drought release...
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European Snow Booklet – an Inventory of Snow Measurements in Europe
Education, culture and sport
The European Snow Booklet (ESB) is a book of reference for snow measurements that has been produced through collaboration with many European snow practitioners and snow scientis...
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Swiss FluxNet Site Lägeren
Education, culture and sport
The Swiss FluxNet Site Lägeren is a managed mixed deciduous mountain forest located on the steep Lägeren mountain (NW of Zurich, Swiss Plateau). The forest is highly diverse, do...
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Non-Binary Environmental Archive Data (NEAD) format
Education, culture and sport
Important note: From 2025 the NEAD format is being transformed into the interoperable CSV (iCSV) format, a formalized and standardized evolution of the NEAD format. Furthermore,...
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Seilaplan Tutorial: Merge DTM tiles
Education, culture and sport
In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. In this tutorial video, we show how to merge multiple DTM...
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Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download with SwissGeoDownloader
Education, culture and sport
In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. The plugin ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’, which is available for...
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Seilaplan Tutorial: DTM download from swisstopo website
Education, culture and sport
In order to use the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’ for digital cable line planning, a digital terrain model (DTM) is required. As an alternative to using the ‘Swiss Geo Downloader’ plu...