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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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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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- 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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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- hazard
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- official-geodata
- natural-hazard
Federal Inventory of Dry Grasslands of National Importance (DGS)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Dry grasslands are habitats with a wide variety of species that are marked by agricultural use. In accordance with the Federal Act on Protecting Nature and Cultural Heritage, the...

Last updated: December 1, 2025
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- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- biotope
- arid-land
- inventory
- protected-sites
- habitats-and-biotopes
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Federal Inventory of Amphibian Spawning Sites of National Importance - Shifting Sites

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

There are currently 19 different amphibian species that live in Switzerland, and nearly all of them are included in the Red List of Threatened Species. The areas that contain...

Last updated: December 1, 2025
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- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
- environment
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Federal Inventory of Floodplains of National Importance - Appendix 2

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Floodplains, namely natural habitats in the flood zones of watercourses, are in decline. The scientific inventory of floodplains was commissioned by the FDHA in May 1981 and...

Last updated: November 1, 2017
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- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- environment
- protected-sites
- habitats-and-biotopes
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Database of total bedload (federal government)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

A bedload transport database for surface waters throughout Switzerland. Following the devastating events of the summer of 1987, which caused major damage in many regions of...

Last updated: January 1, 2009
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- GDB
- water-geographic
- water
- gewiss
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies: Area outlets

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The "Area outlets" data set is part of the "Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies" geodata set. It consists of point objects that represent the area outlets for a...

Last updated: July 1, 2010
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- hydrography
- official-geodata
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Protection forest regions NFI

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

According to the geometry of the data set, Switzerland is divided into six areas. They represent different forest growth and protective forest conditions.

Last updated: November 16, 2020
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- RDF XML
- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- wood
- forest-resource
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Ecomorphology Level F – Drop 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
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- HTML
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- vector
- renaturation
- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- official-geodata
Numeric data from drought platform

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

This dataset includes all numerical data published on the national drought platform. For all drought-related variables, historical time series are available since 1991 with monthly...

Last updated: November 25, 2024
- HTML
- hydrology
- water-geographic
- atmospheric-precipitation
- lake
- agriculture
- flowing-water
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Cantons NFI

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

According to the geometry of the data set, Switzerland is divided into cantons. Basel Stadt and Basel-Landschaft are considered as a single unit.

Last updated: January 1, 2021
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- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
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- forest-resource
- wood
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- bio-geographical-regions
- species-distribution
- habitats-and-biotopes
- national
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: March 3, 2025
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- WMTS
- HTML
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- hazard
- environment
- natural-hazard
- official-geodata
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Residual flow map of Switzerland: catchment

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Federal Act of 24 January 1991 on the Protection of Water against Pollution (LPEP) and its provisions on residual flows came into force on November 1, 1992 in Kraft getreten....

Last updated: January 1, 2004
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- WMS
- WMTS
- API
- environment
- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- official-geodata
Relief shading of vegetation height model NFI

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

Information on 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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- WMS
- HTML
- API
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- forest-resource
- wood
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Swiss Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (SwissPRTR)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

SwissPRTR is the publicly accessible Swiss Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. It provides information about releases of pollutants and transfers of wastes from facilities and...

Last updated: July 9, 2025
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- WMTS
- API
- e-geoch
- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- waste-disposal
- waste-recycling
- source-of-pollution
- emission-source
- special-waste
- pollutant
- chemical
- production-and-industrial-facilities
- human-health-and-safety
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Database of wasterwater treatment plants (ARA-DB) - capacity (PE)

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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- WMTS
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- gewiss
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- water
Mean Annual Evaporation 1973–1992

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The present evaporation map was first published in the Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland in 1999. For the digital version of the atlas, these values will initially be used, since...

Last updated: January 1, 1999
- SERVICE
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- confederation
Extreme Point Precipitation

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The maps on extreme point precipitation describe the precipitation depths for rare heavy precipitation events under current climatic conditions. The analyses can be presented for...

Last updated: January 1, 2022
- SERVICE
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- confederation
Mean Precipitation throughout the Alps 1971–2008

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The present maps show the distribution of long-term mean precipitation in the Alpine region 1971–2008 for a a calendar year, the twelve calendar months, as well as the four...

Last updated: January 1, 2018
- SERVICE
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- confederation
Geodata model and documentation "NoisePollutionRegisterForRailwayInfrastructure_LV95_V1_4"

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Minimales Geodatenmodell und Dokumentation zum Geobasidatensatz "Lärmbelastungskataster für Eisenbahnanlagen", Identifikator 126.1. Bezugsrahmen LV95. Die Kataloge werden auch...

Last updated: April 29, 2025
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- minimum-geodata-model-mgdm
- minimum-geodata-model-mgdm
- model-documentation
- model-documentation
- noise
- railway

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