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Potential of small hydropower plants in Switzerland
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The geodata product ‘Potential of small hydropower plants in Switzerland’ is the result of a GIS-based analysis carried out in 2012 as part of the research project 102835 ‘Surve...
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Sustainable potential of woody biomass resources for bioenergy in...
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Biomass is a renewable resource for energy which can be transformed into several forms of energy: heat, electricity, biogas or liquid fuels. Woody types of biomass were investig...
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Thermal networks: demand from residential and commercial buildings
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The demand for heat and cooling is a key element in the strategic planning of thermal networks. Building a thermal network is only viable if sufficient sales turnover can be gen...
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Suitability of façades for the use of solar energy
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The sun's energy that reaches the Earth's surface can be used, via two proven forms of solar technology – photovoltaics (electric current) and solar thermal energy (heat) – to g...
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Potential heat recovery from wastewater treatment plants
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) treat and purify wastewater. Wastewater is water that has been polluted through activities such as cooking, doing laundry or showering and th...
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Suitability of roofs for the use of solar energy
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Solar energy that reaches the earth’s surface can be utilised with the aid of the two established solar technologies, photovoltaics (electricity) and solar thermal energy, for t...
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Sustainable potential of non-woody biomass resources for bioenergy in...
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Biomass is a renewable resource for energy which can be transformed into several forms of energy: heat, electricity, biogas or liquid fuels. Non-woody types of biomass were inve...
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Statistics on hydropower plants (WASTA)
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The "Statistics on hydropower plants" (WASTA) contain data concerning the Swiss hydropower plants with an output of at least 300 kW. This includes technical data relating to asp...
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Nuclear Power Plants
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Nuclear power plants are facilities for the commercial generation of electrical power from controlled nuclear fission. The four Swiss nuclear power plants have a total output of...
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Heating with renewables: Detached homes and apartment blocks with up to 6 apartments
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
A ‘renewable heating’ advice service is available to building owners who have oil, gas or electric heating and who wish to find out which renewable low-carbon heat source is mos...
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Erosion risk map for arable land – qualitative classification
Regions and cities, Environment
Erosion risk map for arable land – qualitative classification (Federal Office for Agriculture) Erosion risk map for arable land in Switzerland in a 2x2-metre grid based on Swiss...
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swissNAMES3D geographical names of the national Survey
Regions and cities, Environment
swissNAMES3D is the most comprehensive collection of geographical names for Switzerland and Liechtenstein. swissNAMES3D contains over 400,000 georeferenced entries divided in di...
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Geographical UAS zones of Switzerland
Regions and cities, Transport
A UAS geographical zone is a portion of airspace designated by the competent authority in which the operation of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) is permitted, restricted or for...
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Built-up areas as defined in Swiss civil aviation legislation
Regions and cities, Transport
In Swiss civil aviation legislation, the term "built-up areas" refers to the definition of areas, in both quantitative terms and with respect to aviation criteria, that is appli...
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Sanctuaries for silence and nature for aviation
Regions and cities, Transport
Sanctuaries for silence and nature are areas of defined dimensions where antrophogenic (man-made) noise sources have been suppressed to a minimum level. The aim of such sanctuar...
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SORA - Map for intrinsic ground risk
Regions and cities, Transport
European unmanned aircraft regulation (EU) 2019/947 Article 11 requires a SORA (Specific Operational Risk Assessment) to be performed for flights which fit into the Specific cat...
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Mountain landing sites: specially designated landing sites situated above...
Regions and cities, Transport
Mountain landing sites are landing fields that are located outside an aerodrome at over 1100 m altitude and that have no infrastructure. They are used for instruction and traini...
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Civil and military aerodromes
Regions and cities, Transport
Aerodromes are facilities defined in the Sectoral aviation infrastructure plan as intended for aircraft take-off and landing. The official list of aerodromes and heliports autho...
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Site of tick bite reported for tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Switzerland, 2012-2022
Health, Regions and cities
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is an infectious viral disease transmitted by ticks, which is subject to a statutory duty to report. This map shows in orange the communes in which...
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Tick bite model
Health, Regions and cities
The Federal Office of Public Health presents the updated “Tick Hazard Model” of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein. It shows the static geographical distribution ...
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TBE: recommendation of vaccination
Health, Regions and cities
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is an infectious disease that is caused by the TBE virus and can give rise to meningitis. The disease is transmitted via bites from infected ticks....