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131 datasets found

  • Nitrogen Deposition

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the modelled total deposition of nitrogen for the year 2020 in a resolution of 500m as a sum of wet, dry and gaseous deposition. Nationwide deposition in 2020...

    Last updated: August 15, 2022

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • air-pollutant
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
  • 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
  • Relative air humidity in the year, period 1981-2010

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the mean relative air humidity at 13:30 in the year for the period 1981-2010. For the area-wide calculation the climate stations of MeteoSwiss served as support...

    Last updated: April 1, 2022

    • HTML
    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • forestry
    • storm-damage
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Phosphate

    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
  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Pueraria lobata

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring...

    Last updated: April 2, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • environment
    • 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

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • HTML
    • API
    • protected-sites
    • official-geodata
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • environment
  • Federal Inventory of Reserves for Waterbirds and Migratory Birds of international and national importance

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Switzerland is especially important as a wintering and resting site for various migratory waterbirds. As a result, in 1974 the Federal Council signed a convention on watercourses...

    Last updated: July 1, 2023

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • e-geoch
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • migratory-bird
    • environment
    • waterfowl
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Phytolacca americana

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

    The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring...

    Last updated: April 2, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Rubus armeniacus

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

    The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring...

    Last updated: April 2, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Wildlife Passages

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    In einer ersten Phase hat das BAFU anhand der verfügbaren Daten die Wildtierpassagen auf dem Nationalstrassen- und Schienennetz erfasst. Berücksichtigt wurden Kunstbauten, die...

    Last updated: August 23, 2023

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • environment
    • wild-animal
    • fauna
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • biotope-network
    • 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

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