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.

65 datasets found

  • Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland, with average soil loss in tons/(ha*month), January

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland with a spatial resolution of 100m. The maps show the average soil loss in tons per hectare and month. Shades of green,...

    Last updated: June 27, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • soil-erosion
    • erosion
    • erosion-control
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
  • Monthly rainfall erosivity (R-factor) maps of Switzerland in MJ mm ha⁻¹ h⁻¹ month⁻¹, June

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Monthly rainfall erosivity maps (R-factor maps) of Switzerland with a spatial resolution of 100 m. The maps show the spatial and seasonal variability of rainfall erosivity in MJ...

    Last updated: February 27, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • erosion
    • erosion
    • erosion-control
    • precipitation-enhancement
    • soil-erosion
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
  • Monthly rainfall erosivity (R-factor) maps of Switzerland in MJ mm ha⁻¹ h⁻¹ month⁻¹, September

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Monthly rainfall erosivity maps (R-factor maps) of Switzerland with a spatial resolution of 100 m. The maps show the spatial and seasonal variability of rainfall erosivity in MJ...

    Last updated: February 27, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • erosion
    • erosion
    • erosion-control
    • soil-erosion
    • precipitation-enhancement
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
  • Monthly rainfall erosivity (R-factor) maps of Switzerland in MJ mm ha⁻¹ h⁻¹ month⁻¹, March

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Monthly rainfall erosivity maps (R-factor maps) of Switzerland with a spatial resolution of 100 m. The maps show the spatial and seasonal variability of rainfall erosivity in MJ...

    Last updated: February 27, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • precipitation-enhancement
    • erosion
    • erosion
    • erosion-control
    • soil-erosion
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
  • Exceedance of critical loads for nitrogen

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Excessive deposition of reactive nitrogen compounds (NO₂, NO₃⁻, HNO₃, NH₃, NH₄⁺) causes eutrophication (over-fertilisation) of sensitive ecosystems, contributes to soil...

    Last updated: August 15, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • air-pollutant
    • human-health-and-safety
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
  • Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland, with average soil loss in tons/(ha*month), March

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland with a spatial resolution of 100m. The maps show the average soil loss in tons per hectare and month. Shades of green,...

    Last updated: June 27, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • soil-erosion
    • erosion-control
    • erosion
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
  • Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland, with average soil loss in tons/(ha*month), May

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland with a spatial resolution of 100m. The maps show the average soil loss in tons per hectare and month. Shades of green,...

    Last updated: June 27, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • erosion
    • soil-erosion
    • erosion-control
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
  • Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland, with average soil loss in tons/(ha*month), February

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland with a spatial resolution of 100m. The maps show the average soil loss in tons per hectare and month. Shades of green,...

    Last updated: June 27, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • erosion-control
    • erosion
    • soil-erosion
    • human-health-and-safety
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
  • Monthly rainfall erosivity (R-factor) maps of Switzerland in MJ mm ha⁻¹ h⁻¹ month⁻¹, May

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Monthly rainfall erosivity maps (R-factor maps) of Switzerland with a spatial resolution of 100 m. The maps show the spatial and seasonal variability of rainfall erosivity in MJ...

    Last updated: February 27, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • erosion
    • erosion
    • erosion-control
    • soil-erosion
    • precipitation-enhancement
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
  • Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland, with average soil loss in tons/(ha*month), October

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland with a spatial resolution of 100m. The maps show the average soil loss in tons per hectare and month. Shades of green,...

    Last updated: June 27, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • erosion
    • erosion-control
    • soil-erosion
    • human-health-and-safety
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
  • Monthly rainfall erosivity (R-factor) maps of Switzerland in MJ mm ha⁻¹ h⁻¹ month⁻¹, July

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Monthly rainfall erosivity maps (R-factor maps) of Switzerland with a spatial resolution of 100 m. The maps show the spatial and seasonal variability of rainfall erosivity in MJ...

    Last updated: February 27, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • soil-erosion
    • erosion-control
    • erosion
    • erosion
    • precipitation-enhancement
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
  • Monthly rainfall erosivity (R-factor) maps of Switzerland in MJ mm ha⁻¹ h⁻¹ month⁻¹, August

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Monthly rainfall erosivity maps (R-factor maps) of Switzerland with a spatial resolution of 100 m. The maps show the spatial and seasonal variability of rainfall erosivity in MJ...

    Last updated: February 27, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • soil-erosion
    • erosion
    • erosion
    • erosion-control
    • precipitation-enhancement
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
  • 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

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • air-pollutant
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
  • 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: February 29, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • e-geoch
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • source-of-pollution
    • special-waste
    • waste-recycling
    • pollutant
    • emission-source
    • waste-disposal
    • production-and-industrial-facilities
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • 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: November 24, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • biotope
    • inventory
    • arid-land
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Altitudinal vegetation belts in Switzerland for 2085 with less dry future climate

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

    This map shows the altitudinal vegetation belts of forest vegetation in Switzerland for the period 2070-2099 assuming a less dry future climate. The following altitudinal...

    Last updated: September 16, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • wood
    • forest-ecology
    • forest-resource
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Forest ecoregions

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

    The map shows the Forest Ecoregions. They differ in terms of climatic factors, forest vegetation and altitudinal vegetation belts. The southernmost tip of Ticino is considered to...

    Last updated: June 3, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • forest-ecology
    • wood
    • forest-resource
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Water availability for plants

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

    Too little water is available to the trees more and more often: •The vegetation and soil release water into the atmosphere, even moreso the warmer and drier the air. Plants...

    Last updated: February 6, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • forest-resource
    • forest-ecology
    • wood
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Areas of silver fir

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

    The map shows the areas of silver fir occurrence. In the main area, fir is naturally involved to a considerable extent in the stand development in the upper montane and...

    Last updated: June 3, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • wood
    • forest-resource
    • forest-ecology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Modelled altitudinal vegetation belts for 1975

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

    This map shows the altitudinal belts of forest vegetation in Switzerland for the period 1961-1990. The following altitudinal vegetation belts only occur in the southern valleys:...

    Last updated: September 9, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • forest-ecology
    • forest-resource
    • wood
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure