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Daytime railway noise exposure

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
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...

Last updated: December 31, 2021
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- WMTS
- HTML
- e-geoch
- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- traffic-noise
- noise
- noise-abatement
- noise-effect
- noise-pollutant
- noise-immission
- noise-level
- human-health-and-safety
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Air pollution by particulate matter PM2.5

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

"Particulate matter" (PM2.5) refers to particles less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter. These particles are formed during industrial and commercial production processes, combustion...

Last updated: January 1, 2025
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- WMTS
- SERVICE
- air-pollutant
- air
- pollutant
- atmospheric-conditions
- human-health-and-safety
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
Modelled altitudinal vegetation belts for 1975

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

This map shows the altitudinal belts of forest vegetation in Switzerland for the period 1961-1990. The following altitudinal vegetation belts only occur in the southern valleys:...

Last updated: September 9, 2021
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- WMS
- WMTS
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- forest-ecology
- forest-resource
- wood
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Map of seismic subsoil categories according to the standard SIA 261

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The site class is a required indication to determine the seismic action for a structure according to the building code SIA 261. The maps of site classes are indicative maps and are...

Last updated: August 13, 2025
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- WMTS
- WMS
- HTML
- API
- microzonation
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- earthquake
- natural-risk-zones
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Federal Inventory of Hunting Ban Reserves

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
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...

Last updated: June 15, 2023
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- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- environment
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Federal Inventory of Fens of National Importance

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
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...

Last updated: December 1, 2025
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- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
- environment
- protected-sites
- habitats-and-biotopes
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Areas of silver fir

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

The map shows the areas of silver fir occurrence. In the main area, fir is naturally involved to a considerable extent in the stand development in the upper montane and...

Last updated: June 3, 2020
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- WMS
- WMTS
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- wood
- forest-resource
- forest-ecology
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Nitrogen Deposition

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The time series shows the modelled total deposition of nitrogen for the years 1990, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020 in a resolution of 500m as a sum of wet, dry and gaseous...

Last updated: August 15, 2022
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- WMTS
- HTML
- air
- pollutant
- air-pollutant
- human-health-and-safety
- atmospheric-conditions
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
Water availability in the soil (site water balance)

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

The trees often have less water available during the vegetation period. •The water supply during the vegetation period is decisive for the growth and vitality of the forests. The...

Last updated: February 6, 2019
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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- forest-ecology
- wood
- forest-resource
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Air pollution by Ozone

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Ground-level ozone has negative impacts on human health and vegetation. High levels in particular lead to irritation of the respiratory tract and lung tissue. In plants, high ozone...

Last updated: January 1, 2025
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- SERVICE
- air-pollutant
- air
- atmospheric-conditions
- human-health-and-safety
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
UNESCO World natural heritage

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention, SR 0.451.41) was signed at the UNESCO General Conference in 1972....

Last updated: January 1, 2021
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- WMTS
- HTML
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- natural-heritage
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Forest ecoregions

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

The map shows the Forest Ecoregions. They differ in terms of climatic factors, forest vegetation and altitudinal vegetation belts. The southernmost tip of Ticino is considered to...

Last updated: June 3, 2020
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- wood
- forest-resource
- forest-ecology
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Vegetation height model NFI

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
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 aerial...

Last updated: October 31, 2023
- SERVICE
- WMTS
- HTML
- WMS
- API
- fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- wood
- forest-resource
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Nighttime railway noise exposure

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
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 as...

Last updated: December 31, 2021
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- noise-level
- noise
- noise-effect
- noise-pollutant
- noise-abatement
- noise-immission
- traffic-noise
- human-health-and-safety
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Vegetation height model Lidar NFI

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
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 aerial...

Last updated: October 31, 2024
- WMS
- WMTS
- SERVICE
- HTML
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
- wood
- forest-resource
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Biogeographical regions of Switzerland (CH)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The basis for establishing the biogeographical regions (in 6 or 12 classes) were the homogeneous surfaces of the river basins, where relevant and adequately extensive species...

Last updated: March 2, 2004
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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- nature-conservation
- flora-biology
- fauna
- bio-geographical-regions
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
National Air Pollution Monitoring Network NABEL: stations

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
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 and...

Last updated: January 1, 2021
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- WMS
- WMTS
- API
- pollutant
- air
- air-pollutant
- atmospheric-conditions
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- e-geoch
Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
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...

Last updated: November 15, 2022
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- HTML
- API
- e-geoch
- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- environment
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
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: December 1, 2025
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- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- biotope
- arid-land
- inventory
- protected-sites
- habitats-and-biotopes
- 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: December 1, 2025
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- HTML
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- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
- environment
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

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