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Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies 40 km²

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The "40 km² catchment areas" data set is one of four possible aggregation levels for the "Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies" geodata set. It consists of a...

Last updated: July 1, 2010
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- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- hydrography
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Habitat Map of Switzerland

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The dataset maps Swiss habitats according to the TypoCH classification ('Lebensräume der Schweiz', Delarze et al. 2015) area-wide, to at least the second level of detail of the...

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- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Nitrite

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
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 stations....

Last updated: March 26, 2014
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- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- watercourse
Emerald sites

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Emerald Network is a Europeanwide network that seeks to protect endangered animal and plant species and natural habitats listed in the Bern Convention. To obtain Emerald...

Last updated: September 17, 2009
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- WMTS
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- biotope
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- 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
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- WMTS
- API
- SERVICE
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- environment
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- leisure-centre
- space-provided-for-waters
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- tranquility
Water status monitoring stations CH

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The data set represents the monitoring stations where the water status is recorded. The cantons are responsible for water protection enforcement, as they are for other...

Last updated: March 1, 2013
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- environment
- human-health-and-safety
- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- water
Basis for determining Q347 flow rate

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Water Protection Act specifies how appropriate residual flows can be determined. This applies to new water withdrawals and also to existing withdrawals for which concessions...

Last updated: January 1, 2000
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- water-geographic
- 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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- microzonation
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- earthquake
- natural-risk-zones
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Cantonal & private gauging stations (HADES 5.1.2)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

This set of data represents the locations of hydrometric gauging stations belonging to cantons (data source: “KANTON”) and private owners (data source: “HADES”). The data was...

Last updated: January 1, 2003
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- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- water-geographic
- gewiss
Warning Forest Fire Danger

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

The FOEN's forest fire danger warning contains the general daily forest fire danger based on meteorological data and the resulting forest fire indices.

Last updated: November 17, 2022
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- forest-fire
- wood
- prevention-of-forest-fires
- natural-risk
- land-use
- fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Forest fire prevention measures of the cantons

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

Contains the forest fire prevention measures currently in force in the cantons.

Last updated: November 17, 2022
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- natural-risk
- prevention-of-forest-fires
- forest-fire
- wood
- land-use
- fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Map of past earthquakes in Switzerland and neighbouring regions

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

ECOS09 is the earthquake catalogue of Switzerland and bordering regions. It integrates the following sources: - Macroseismic Earthquake Catalogue of Switzerland (MECOS 02) with...

Last updated: April 28, 2011
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- earthquake
- catalogue
- natural-risk-zones
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Assessment of the Biological Water Status: Fish

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
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 stations....

Last updated: March 26, 2014
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- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- watercourse
Base areas (catchment areas) HADES

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The base areas form the lowest layer of the system of catchment areas that describe Switzerland’s hydrographical structure (Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland, HADES). As many...

Last updated: January 1, 2004
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- GDB
- water-geographic
- atlas
- hydrology
- gewiss
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- water
Interregional wildlife corridor

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

First, known wildlife corridors were recorded from existing data at the cantonal level, and potential corridors were detected by GIS and then divided into wildlife corridors of...

Last updated: February 1, 2025
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- fauna
- wild-animal
- biotope-network
- habitats-and-biotopes
- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Alpine Floodplains outside of the federal inventary

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

As past of the systematic inventory of flood plains, properties that were until recently not evaluated as having national significance will also be included in the federal...

Last updated: July 4, 2019
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- environment
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- e-geoch
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- biotope
- space-provided-for-waters
Balance areas (catchment areas) HADES

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The balance areas form the middle layer of the system of catchment areas that describe Switzerland’s hydrographical structure (Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland, HADES). They are...

Last updated: January 1, 2004
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- water-geographic
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- gewiss
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: September 1, 2020
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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- nature-conservation
- fauna
- flora-biology
- bio-geographical-regions
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Alpine pastures protected by livestock guardian dogs

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The return of large predators to Switzerland has led to the use of livestock guardian dogs on our alpine pastures. Herd guards are used to protect livestock against larger...

Last updated: January 5, 2025
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- 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: September 2, 2024
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- WMTS
- GDB
- SHP
- HTML
- ZIP
- API
- transport
- environment
- amphibian
- crossing-place-for-animals
- transport-networks
- habitats-and-biotopes
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

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