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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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Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Ammonium
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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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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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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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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Map of the recent earthquakes (last 90 days) in and around Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
The map of the earthquakes of the last 90 days shows the current seismic activity in Switzerland and the nearby regions recorded by the Swiss Seismological Service at the ETH Zu...
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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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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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Assessment of the Biological Water Status: Diatoms
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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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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Vegetation alpine floodplains
Regions and cities, Environment
Habitat protection pursuant to Article 18a of the Federal Act on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage (NHG, SR 451) aims to ensure effective protection for areas of na...
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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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Groundwater bodies of Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
The groundwater bodies layer shows a simplified and comprehensive breakdown of hydrogeological overview units for Switzerland. The groundwater bodies here have not been develope...
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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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Floodplains outside of the federal inventary
Regions and cities, Environment
Of all the floodplains mapped throughout Switzerland, the objects which have not been included in the federal inventory have been compiled in this dataset. A distinction has bee...
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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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Hydrological study areas
Regions and cities, Environment
Since 1957 the hydrology division of the FOEN has operated a network of hydrological study areas aimed at observing long-term changes in the water regime within Switzerland’s mo...
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National Air Pollution Monitoring Network NABEL: stations
Regions and cities, Environment
The National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL) monitors air quality at 16 different locations in Switzerland. The monitoring stations are spread over the entire country a...
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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...