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Industrial minerals refer to minerals or rocks that are important for technical processes and industrial applications. Gypsum and salt are two well-known industrial minerals, wh...
The Swiss Saltworks cover the entire demand of Switzerland for de-icing, industrial and table salts. This dataset shows the active and decommissioned mining and production sites...
Geotopes are geoscientific natural monuments. Geotopes that represent geological history show the development of the landscape, the climate and life, the formation and disappear...
The 1:500'000 geotechnical map (GK500) of the Swiss Geotechnical Commission (SGTK) shows the subsurface strata classified according to lithological-petrographic criteria. The le...
Gypsum is used primarily in the construction and cement industries but also in the handicraft and the ceramics industries. This dataset shows the active and decommissioned gypsu...
This dataset shows the active and decommissioned cement and lime mining and production sites in Switzerland. It forms part of the Resources Information System of the Georesource...
This dataset shows the use of stone in the construction of over 4,000 buildings in Switzerland. The data was collected by Francis de Quervain between 1954 and 1983. Over the pas...
The overall magnetisation of a rock consists of induced magnetisation caused by the Earth's magnetic field and of remanent magnetisation acquired by the rock during its formatio...
The map (GK500-LGM) shows the maximum extent of glaciation in Switzerland at the height of the last Ice Age around 24,000 years ago. It presents the latest results of current re...
The data on the brickworks is part of the Geotechnical Environmental Atlas (GEA) of the Swiss Geotechnical Commission, a database of mineral deposits in Switzerland. This databa...
The mosaic of Landsat satellite images is a composition of 20 individual images taken by the American satellite Landsat 5, in the years 1990 to 1994. It is a unique set of image...
The displacement vectors of the pass points (TSP2) point from LV03 to LV95 and therefore in the direction and absolute value of the local rectification (infobox).
swissBOUNDARIES3D municipal boundaries constitute the administrative borders of the municipalities of Switzerland and the principality of Liechtenstein. The commune is the small...
swissNAMES3D is the most comprehensive collection of geographical names for Switzerland and Liechtenstein. swissNAMES3D contains about 400,000 georeferenced entries divided in d...
The aerial imagery catalogue of swisstopo comprises around 360’000 analogue aerial photographs (black and white, colour or infrared colour). About 280’00 aerial images are repre...
About 4,000 black and white oblique aerial photos form a small part of the image collection of swisstopo. There are snapshots of small towns and photos of the atmosphere in the ...
The SWISSIMAGE 25 orthophoto mosaic is a composition of digital colour aerial images with a resolution of 25 m per pixel. SWISSIMAGE 25 has been resampled from the SWISSIMAGE or...
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