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Current drought situation in Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the combined drought index for each region. This index summarises in one value the various factors affecting drought: precipitation, modelled soil moisture and dis...
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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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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 ...
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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 emission data for 2021 as reported in the railway noise register as...
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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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Nighttime railway noise exposure
Regions and cities, Environment
The map shows the nighttime railway noise to which the population is exposed. The noise calculation is based on emission data for 2021 as reported in the railway noise register ...
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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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Swiss National Park and parks of national importance (Zones)
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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Swiss National Park
Regions and cities, Environment
Switzerland’s National Park was created in 1909 through private initiatives. When the Confederation took over, it was officially created on 1 August 1914. The park was expanded ...
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Ramsar sites in Switzerland
Regions and cities, Environment
To protect wetlands, particularly as habitats for waterbirds and waders, a convention of international importance was signed in 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar. Switzerland r...
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Database of total bedload (federal government)
Regions and cities, Environment
A bedload transport database for surface waters throughout Switzerland. Following the devastating events of the summer of 1987, which caused major damage in many regions of Swit...
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Ecomorphology Level F - Structures
Regions and cities, Environment
To enable surface waters to be fully protected, their status must be known. The Modular Stepwise Procedure provides the framework for standardized investigation and assessment o...
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Swiss Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (SwissPRTR)
Regions and cities, Environment
SwissPRTR is the publicly accessible Swiss Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. It provides information about releases of pollutants and transfers of wastes from facilities ...
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Mean Precipitation throughout the Alps 1971–2008
Regions and cities, Environment
The present maps show the distribution of long-term mean precipitation in the Alpine region 1971–2008 for a a calendar year, the twelve calendar months, as well as the four seas...
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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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Extreme Point Precipitation
Regions and cities, Environment
The maps on extreme point precipitation describe the precipitation depths for rare heavy precipitation events under current climatic conditions. The analyses can be presented fo...
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Mean Annual Evaporation 1973–1992
Regions and cities, Environment
The present evaporation map was first published in the Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland in 1999. For the digital version of the atlas, these values will initially be used, sinc...
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Relief shading of vegetation height model Sentinel 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 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...
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Sector plan on transport, road infrastructure section (SIN)
Regions and cities, Environment, Transport
The road infrastructure section of the sector plan on transport (SIN) coordinates the road infrastructure which is relevant to the sectoral plan and which falls within the spher...
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Building lines for motorways
Regions and cities, Environment
The dataset of building lines for motorways contains information about the location and authorisation status of building lines along motorways. Building lines meet the needs of ...
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Aspects related to the use of ground-mounted photovoltaic installations
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Aspects related to use as set out in the document "Freistehende Photovoltaikanlagen: Methodische Grundlage des Bundes" (Ground-mounted photovoltaic installations: methodological...
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Housing inventory and secondary homes rate
Regions and cities, Environment
The apartment inventory map service shows the status in blue primer of the municipalities that are subject to the building regulations of the Second Housing Act (ZWG, SR 702) an...
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Settlement
Regions and cities, Environment
The ‘Settlement’ is a geodata set of the settled landscape from a spatial development perspective. The data set serves as a geometric reference for various indicators in spatial...
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Proportion of areas worth examining from the federal government's...
Regions and cities, Environment
"This dataset represents the proportion of areas worth examinig according to the Confederation. It provides an initial indication of where areas worth examinig are located in Sw...