69 datasets found

  • Federal Inventory of Dry Grasslands of National Importance (DGS)

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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, the...

    Last updated: November 24, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • biotope
    • inventory
    • arid-land
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Extent of groundwater resources in karst regions

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Karst water resources layer shows the extent of the water-saturated zone of a karstified aquifer projected to the surface. It is determined by the karst water level and...

    Last updated: July 1, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • groundwater
    • environment
    • karst
    • hydrogeology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Hydrogeological sketch

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Groundwater is present in all subterranean rock. This map gives a hydrogeological overview of Switzerland and its various types of aquifers. Important unconsolidated aquifers are...

    Last updated: December 3, 2009

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • environment
    • geology
    • hydrography
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Grayling population of national importance: distribution area

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The data on grayling populations of national im-portance includes four subproducts; the distribution area layer includes the sections of watercourses with 20 major grayling...

    Last updated: September 5, 2011

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Amphibians appendix 3

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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...

    Last updated: November 1, 2017

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Stations hydrological forecasts

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map provides an overview of stations forecasted by FEWS.

    Last updated: January 30, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • water-geographic
    • hydrology
    • flowing-water
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Gauging stations for hydrological study areas

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 most...

    Last updated: July 27, 2016

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • gewiss
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Federal Inventory of Amphibian Spawning Sites of National Importance - Shifting Sites

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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...

    Last updated: November 1, 2017

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • National Ecological Network REN, extensive agricultural area

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The National Ecological Network (REN) was developed in close collaboration with cantonal authorities for the protection of nature and landscapes. It issues a technical/sciencific...

    Last updated: February 14, 2011

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies 2 km²

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 can...

    Last updated: July 1, 2010

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • hydrography
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Tranquillity Areas

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Based on the "Tranquillity Map of the Swiss Plateau" and its calculated "tranquillity" values, certain recreational areas were derived. For this purpose, areas that did not fall...

    Last updated: February 10, 2022

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • ZIP
    • GPKG
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • leisure-centre
    • space-provided-for-waters
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • tranquility
  • HWGWP flood crest gauge

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    This set of data depicts the locations of the federal flood measuring stations, known as "Hochwassergrenzwertpegel". The data was collected in 2005; readings are no longer being...

    Last updated: January 1, 2005

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • gewiss
  • Production regions NFI

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 represent...

    Last updated:

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • WMS
    • API
    • RDF XML
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • forest-resource
    • wood
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Groundwater temperature

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map provides an overview of Switzerland's current groundwater temperatures. The calculation is based on percentiles of the dataset for the standard period 1991–2020 or, in the...

    Last updated: June 23, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • hydrology
    • groundwater
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Swiss National Park

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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...

    Last updated: January 17, 2001

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Altitudinal vegetation belts in Switzerland for 2085 with less dry future climate

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

    This map shows the altitudinal vegetation belts of forest vegetation in Switzerland for the period 2070-2099 assuming a less dry future climate. The following altitudinal...

    Last updated: September 16, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • wood
    • forest-ecology
    • forest-resource
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Amphibian migration conflicting with traffic

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Since the mid-1950s, the number of amphibians being killed on roads has increased dramatically. Every year, hundreds of thousands of amphibians cross roads in Switzerland during...

    Last updated: January 1, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • transport
    • environment
    • amphibian
    • crossing-place-for-animals
    • transport-networks
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Catchments in karst regions

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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...

    Last updated: July 1, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • groundwater
    • karst
    • environment
    • hydrogeology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Economic regions NFI

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 of...

    Last updated:

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • WMS
    • API
    • RDF XML
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • wood
    • forest-resource
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Ramsar sites in Switzerland

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 ratified...

    Last updated: February 2, 2005

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • HTML
    • API
    • protected-sites
    • official-geodata
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • environment