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Stocking map along watercourses and lakeshores
Regions and cities, Environment
For the creation of the Switzerland-wide map of riparian woody vegetation, calculations were made based on available geodata. Riparian woodland was defined as vegetation over 2....
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Vegetation height model NFI
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
Information on the vegetation height is determined using remote sensing methods with active and passive sensors. LiDAR is an active sensor. An optical sensor, for example an aer...
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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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FOEN basic monitoring network for surfaces water
Regions and cities, Environment
The data show the locations of the stations in the basic monitoring network of the Hydrology Division of the FOEN. It includes all stations currently listed on the FOEN’s home p...
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Federal Inventory of Dry Grasslands of National Importance (DGS)
Regions and cities, Environment
Dry grasslands are habitats with a wide variety of species that are marked by agricultural use. In accordance with the Federal Act on Protecting Nature and Cultural Heritage, th...
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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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Federal Inventory of Raised and Transition Bogs of National Importance
Regions and cities, Environment
Raised bogs are some of the most susceptible habitats in Switzerland and are in sharp decline. Today, between 10% and 20% of the original stocks still exist. The scientific inve...
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Nighttime road traffic noise exposure
Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the nighttime road traffic noise to which the population is exposed. The data is based on area-wide model calculations (sonBASE). Switzerland's entire road network...
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Catchments in karst regions
Regions and cities, Environment
The Karst catchments layer depicts those areas where seepage water flows into a specific spring and feeds it. Catchments can occasionally overlap, namely where sections of them ...
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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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Vegetation alpine floodplains
Regions and cities, Environment
Der Biotopschutz gemäss Artikel 18a des Natur- und Heimatschutzgesetzes NHG (SR 451) hat einen wirksamen Schutz der national bedeutenden Flächen der wichtigsten Biotoptypen zum ...
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Windstorm: Gusts at return period 50 years
Regions and cities, Environment
The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the regi...
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Mean runoff in the future - results from the Hydro-CH2018 project
Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the percentage changes in summer runoff towards the end of the century (2070-2099) compared to the reference period (1981 - 2010) as calculated in the hydrological...
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Forest ecoregions
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the Forest Ecoregions. They differ in terms of climatic factors, forest vegetation and altitudinal vegetation belts. The southernmost tip of Ticino is considered t...
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Habitat Map of Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
The dataset maps Swiss habitats according to the TypoCH classification ('Lebensräume der Schweiz', Delarze et al. 2015) area-wide, to at least the second level of detail of the ...
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Water temperature of rivers and streams
Regions and cities, Environment
The map provides an overview of current water temperatures in Switzerland's rivers.
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Relief shading of vegetation height model NFI
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
Information on vegetation height is determined using remote sensing methods with active and passive sensors. LiDAR is an active sensor. An optical sensor, for example an aerial ...
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Federal Inventory of Hunting Ban Reserves
Regions and cities, Environment
Federal hunting bans have existed since 1875 and served the purpose of raising the populations of chamois, red deer and roe deer as well as ibex (cloven-hoofed game), which had ...
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Nase spawning grounds 1995 - 2004
Regions and cities, Environment
The data includes the coordinates of spawning grounds in Switzerland (around 100 sites) as well as the average number of breeding animals (10-year average). The FOEN conducted a...
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Daytime railway noise exposure
Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the daytime railway noise to which the population is exposed. The noise calculation is based on the real emissions of the year 2015. This emissions were calculated...
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