The federal environmental authority. It is responsible for ensuring that natural resources are used sustainably, that the public is protected against natural hazards, and that the environment is protected from unacceptable adverse impacts.

97 datasets found

  • 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
  • Reaches surveyed - cross section securing point

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 floods...

    Last updated: April 1, 2024

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Database of cross sections (CS) - surveyed sections

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 floods...

    Last updated: April 1, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Strahler stream order

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The stream order according to Strahler specifies the degree of branching of a hydrographic network. It forms the basis for morphological studies and descriptions of a watercourse....

    Last updated: August 6, 2014

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
  • 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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    • WMS
    • HTML
    • API
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • watercourse
  • Ecomorphology Level F - Structures

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    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 of...

    Last updated: August 8, 2013

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • HTML
    • renaturation
    • vector
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Floodplains outside of the federal inventary

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Of all the floodplains mapped throughout Switzerland, the objects which have not been included in the federal inventory have been compiled in this dataset. A distinction has been...

    Last updated: November 1, 2017

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • e-geoch
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • air-hygiene
  • Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 100 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • storm
    • air-movement
    • wind
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Ecomorphology Level F – River reaches

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    To enable watercourses to be fully protected, their status must be known. The Modular Stepwise Procedure provides the framework for standardised investigation and assessment of...

    Last updated: August 8, 2013

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • renaturation
    • vector
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • 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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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Gusts at return period 30 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • storm
    • wind
    • air-movement
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 300 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • storm
    • wind
    • air-movement
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Vegetation alpine floodplains

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Der Biotopschutz gemäss Artikel 18a des Natur- und Heimatschutzgesetzes NHG (SR 451) hat einen wirksamen Schutz der national bedeutenden Flächen der wichtigsten Biotoptypen zum...

    Last updated: January 1, 2006

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    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Underground flow paths in karst regions

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Underground flow paths layer indicates the probable direction taken by the groundwater in karst regions within the catchments towards the relevant spring. These interpretations...

    Last updated: July 1, 2015

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • karst
    • environment
    • groundwater
    • hydrogeology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Springs and swallow holes in karst regions

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Karst springs and swallow holes layer shows the main points where groundwater emerges from the karst system as well as important infiltration points. Distinctions are made...

    Last updated: July 1, 2015

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • karst
    • groundwater
    • environment
    • hydrogeology
    • 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

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • groundwater
    • environment
    • karst
    • hydrogeology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Gusts at return period 300 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • storm
    • wind
    • air-movement
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • 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

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • gewiss
  • Windstorm: Gusts at return period 50 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • storm
    • wind
    • air-movement
    • 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
    • crossing-place-for-animals
    • amphibian
    • transport-networks
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure