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Digital soil suitability map of Switzerland - Waterlogging
Regions and cities, Environment
If external water (runoff from slopes and groundwater) is present in the soil as well as precipitation, this is described as external waterlogging. (Details: Soil suitability ma...
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Digital soil suitability map of Switzerland - Stone content
Regions and cities, Environment
The stone content refers to the individual mineral components of the soil which are larger than 2 mm (sieve residue). In most cases the top 50 cm of the soil was evaluated. (Det...
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Climate suitability map for agriculture - Forage crops
Regions and cities, Environment
The four sheets of the map, which has a scale of 1:200,000, show an overall evaluation of the climatic conditions and restrictions for agriculture, broken down into 20 categorie...
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Digital soil suitability map of Switzerland - Water storage capacity
Regions and cities, Environment
The term refers to water which is retained in the soil by tension forces and can easily be taken up by plants (soil moisture tension 0.1 - 1 Atm). Estimates show that there is l...
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Flow-path map for erosion risk
Regions and cities, Environment
The flow-path map shows the new calculated flow paths for surface runoff (L-factor of the universal soil loss equation or of the erosion risk map) on the agriculturally producti...
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Climate suitability map for agriculture - Overview
Regions and cities, Environment
The four sheets of the map, which has a scale of 1:200,000, show an overall evaluation of the climatic conditions and restrictions for agriculture, broken down into 20 categorie...
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Climate suitability map for agriculture - Summer catch crops
Regions and cities, Environment
The four sheets of the map, which has a scale of 1:200,000, show an overall evaluation of the climatic conditions and restrictions for agriculture, broken down into 20 categorie...
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Climate suitability map for agriculture - Potatoes
Regions and cities, Environment
The four sheets of the map, which has a scale of 1:200,000, show an overall evaluation of the climatic conditions and restrictions for agriculture, broken down into 20 categorie...
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Mountain products
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities
Um die Bezeichnung „Bergprodukt“ (z.B. Bergkäse) verwenden zu können, müssen die Rohstoffe aus dem Berggebiet oder dem Sömmerungsgebiet stammen und in einer Gemeinde verarbeitet...
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Hanglagen Abschwemmung
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities
Der Datensatz Hanglagen Abschwemmung dient dazu, die Flächen zu bestimmen, auf welchen Massnahmen gegen Abschwemmung zu ergreifen sind. Die Massnahmen gegen Abschwemmung richten...
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Climate suitability map for agriculture - Precipitation
Regions and cities, Environment
The four sheets of the map, which has a scale of 1:200,000, show an overall evaluation of the climatic conditions and restrictions for agriculture, broken down into 20 categorie...
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Climate suitability map for agriculture - Cereal crops
Regions and cities, Environment
The four sheets of the map, which has a scale of 1:200,000, show an overall evaluation of the climatic conditions and restrictions for agriculture, broken down into 20 categorie...
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Climate suitability map for agriculture - Special crops
Regions and cities, Environment
The four sheets of the map, which has a scale of 1:200,000, show an overall evaluation of the climatic conditions and restrictions for agriculture, broken down into 20 categorie...
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Daytime road traffic noise exposure
Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the daytime road traffic noise to which the population is exposed. The data is based on area-wide model calculations (sonBASE). The Swiss road network included in ...
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National Long-Term Surveillance of Swiss Rivers
Regions and cities, Environment
The National River Monitoring and Survey Programme (NADUF) tracks the concentrations of substances occurring in selected Swiss watercourses. NADUF, launched in 1972, is a projec...
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Database of wastewater treatment plants (ARA-DB) - cleaning type
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Since the 1980s, the FOEN (formerly the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape) has kept a database with information about the central ARA. The underlying origi...
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Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies 2 km²
Regions and cities, Environment
The data set ‹sub-basins 2 km²› is the central element of the geodata set. It is made up of a comprehensive mosaic of over 22,000 topographically defined sub-basin areas that ca...
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Federal Inventory of Amphibian Spawning Sites of National Importance -...
Regions and cities, Environment
There are currently 19 different amphibian species that live in Switzerland, and nearly all of them are included in the Red List of Threatened Species. The areas that contain we...
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Economic regions NFI
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
Switzerland is divided into fourteen areas according to the geometry of the data set. They represent different forest growth and economic conditions and represent a refinement o...
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Federal Inventory of Fens of National Importance
Regions and cities, Environment
Fens are vestiges of earlier natural and cultural landscapes and are in sharp decline. They are home to highly-adapted symbiotic communities of plants and animals that include a...
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Swiss water topographical catchment areas: Main river section
Regions and cities, Environment
The data set “Main river section” is part of the geo dataset “Swiss water topographical catchment areas”. The main river in a catchment area is the body of water that leaves t...
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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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Database of wastewater treatment plants (ARA-DB) - percentage waste water in...
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Since the 1980s, the FOEN (formerly the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape) has kept a database with information about the central ARA. The underlying origi...
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Vegetation height model Lidar 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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Database of cross sections (CS) - surveyed sections
Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the reaches of watercourses which are currently surveyed periodically under the leadership of the FOEN. They are usually surveyed every 10 years or after major flo...