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Potential use of lakes and rivers for heat extraction and heat discharge
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Lakes and rivers provide a great yet largely untapped source of thermal energy. In Switzerland, this renewable source of energy source could be used for heating (heat extraction...
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Sectoral Plan Deep Geological Repositories
Regions and cities, Environment
Most of the radioactive waste in Switzerland comes from the country's five nuclear power plants, though a certain amount is also produced in the healthcare sector, in industry a...
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Electricity Transmission Lines sectoral plan
Regions and cities, Environment
Sectoral planning is the federal government’s overlying planning and coordination tool for implementing its spatial planning duties. Projects concerning the construction and exp...
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Solar irradiation on a surface inclined 30° to the south
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The irradiation maps show the solar radiation on a south-facing surface for four different inclinations: Horizontal, 30°, 75° and 90°. The data is based on Switzerland-wide mode...
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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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Solar irradiation on a horizontal surface
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The irradiation maps show the solar radiation on a south-facing surface for four different inclinations: Horizontal, 30°, 75° and 90°. The data is based on Switzerland-wide mode...
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Dams under federal supervision
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The dataset contains fundamental information about dams in Switzerland which come under the direct supervision of the Swiss Confederation. This includes data concerning the cons...
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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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Compensation for losses due to the use of hydraulic power (CLHPO)
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Protected areas under the terms of the Ordinance of 25 October 1995 on Compensation for Losses due to the Use of Hydraulic Power (CLHPO), based on contractual regulations betwee...
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Solar irradiation on a surface inclined 75° to the south
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The irradiation maps show the solar radiation on a south-facing surface for four different inclinations: Horizontal, 30°, 75° and 90°. The data is based on Switzerland-wide mode...
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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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Electricity Transmission Lines sectoral plan - consultations
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Current or past consultations of the cantons and communes as well as information and participation of the population in accordance with Art. 19 RPV of the Electricity Transmissi...
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Groundwater heat utilisation potential
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The thermal energy stored in groundwater can be used for heating purposes. With groundwater heat pump systems, the heat can be extracted from the groundwater and transferred to ...
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Solar irradiation on a surface inclined 90° to the south
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The irradiation maps show the solar radiation on a south-facing surface for four different inclinations: Horizontal, 30°, 75° and 90°. The data is based on Switzerland-wide mode...
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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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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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Database of wasterwater treatment plants (ARA-DB) - capacity (PE)
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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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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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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Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies: Area outlets
Regions and cities, Environment
The "Area outlets" data set is part of the "Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies" geodata set. It consists of point objects that represent the area outlets for a p...
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Protection forest regions NFI
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
According to the geometry of the data set, Switzerland is divided into six areas. They represent different forest growth and protective forest conditions.
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Production regions NFI
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
According to the geometry of the data set, Switzerland is divided into five areas, namely Jura, Central Plateau, Pre-Alps, Alps, and the southern side of the Alps. They represen...
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Reaches surveyed - cross section securing point
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...
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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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River Typology for Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
The typology of rivers groups the diversity of Swiss rivers according to abiotic, physiographic criteria, not considering anthropogenic impacts. They are a basis for assessment ...