Federal Office for the Environment FOEN

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.

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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
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- 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
Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Sedum spurium

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
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- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Senecio rupestris

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
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- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
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
Diffuse dissolved phosphorus inputs into waters, modelled values

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Phosphorus inputs into waters represent an undesirable pollution load. Over recent decades high inputs of dissolved phosphorus have led to eutrophication of the lakes of the...

Last updated: January 1, 2023
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- phosphorus
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- water-geographic
Database of wastewater treatment plants (ARA-DB) - percentage waste water in the receiving watercourses at low water

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

Since the 1980s, the FOEN (formerly the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape) has kept a database with information about the central ARA. The underlying original...

Last updated: January 1, 2014
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- gewiss
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- water
HQStat flood statistics

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Data on flood events is managed and statistically evaluated by the FOEN; the findings are made available in the form of result sheets. A systematic statistical evaluation of flood...

Last updated: January 1, 2014
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- gewiss
- water-geographic
- 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
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- 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
Hydrological study areas

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Since 1957 the hydrology division of the FOEN has operated a network of hydrological study areas aimed at observing long-term changes in the water regime within Switzerland’s most...

Last updated: January 1, 2013
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- gewiss
- water-geographic
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Mean daily temperature high in July, period 2070-2099, Scenario RCP 8.5

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Mean daily temperature high in July (period 2070-2099). The temperature increase of the climate scenario was added to the map «Air temperature July 1981-2010». Among the...

Last updated: April 1, 2022
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- forestry
- climate
- air
- climate
- air
- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- 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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- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- nature-conservation
- flora-biology
- fauna
- bio-geographical-regions
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Artemisia verlotiorum

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
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- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Elodea nuttallii

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
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- WMTS
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- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Diffuse total nitrogen inputs into waters, modelled values

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Nitrogen inputs into waters represent an undesirable pollution load. Under the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR),...

Last updated: January 1, 2023
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- nitrogen
- agriculture
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- water-geographic
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
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- natural-risk-analysis
- natural-risk
- wind
- air-movement
- storm
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
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
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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- e-geoch
- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- environment
- protected-sites
- 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: March 3, 2025
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- hazard
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- official-geodata
- natural-hazard
Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Nitrate

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
Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Lonicera japonica

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: May 4, 2015
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- WMTS
- HTML
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

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