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.

261 datasets found

  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Solidago gigantea

    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
  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Solidago canadensis

    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

    • HTML
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • SERVICE
    • e-geoch-geoportal
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • National Long-Term Surveillance of Swiss Rivers

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The National River Monitoring and Survey Programme (NADUF) tracks the concentrations of substances occurring in selected Swiss watercourses. NADUF, launched in 1972, is a project...

    Last updated: December 7, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • gewiss
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Relief shading of vegetation height model Sentinel 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

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
    • forest-resource
    • wood
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Monthly rainfall erosivity (R-factor) maps of Switzerland in MJ mm ha⁻¹ h⁻¹ month⁻¹, December

    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
    • HTML
    • precipitation-enhancement
    • soil-erosion
    • erosion-control
    • erosion
    • soil
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
  • 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
    • HTML
    • API
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • gewiss
  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Reynoutria japonica

    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
  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Elodea canadensis

    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
  • 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
    • HTML
    • erosion
    • erosion-control
    • soil-erosion
    • soil
    • precipitation-enhancement
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
  • Inventory of quaking bogs

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The inventory of quaking bogs in Switzerland contains discovered primary quaking bogs of a specific minimum size with transition and raised bog characteristics (83 bogs). This...

    Last updated: January 1, 1990

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • WMS
    • HTML
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • inventory
    • bryophyte
    • bog
    • species-distribution
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Bunias orientalis

    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 N.N.

    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: October 8, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Current drought hazard level

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The drought warning map shows the current drought hazard (issued at levels 1, 2 and 4) for all regions of Switzerland. The hazard level results from a weekly expert assessment of...

    Last updated: November 25, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • API
    • HTML
    • water-geographic
    • lake
    • atmospheric-precipitation
    • flowing-water
    • hydrology
    • agriculture
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • 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
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • leisure-centre
    • space-provided-for-waters
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • tranquility
  • Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Uranium

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Interpolierte Uran-Konzentrationen (mg/kg Feinerde) in den Oberböden (0–20 cm) der Schweiz. Für die Ordinary Kriging Interpolationen (1 km x 1 km) wurden Messdaten von insgesamt...

    Last updated: June 30, 2023

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • heavy-metal-load
    • biogeochemistry
    • interpolation
    • toxic-metal
    • atlas
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • confederation
    • soil-properties
    • soil-mapping
    • soil
  • Frequency of Föhn in the year, period variable (maximum 1969-2013)

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the average frequency (in %) of the number of Föhn hours per year. A value of e.g. 12 % means that on 44 days in the year the Föhn blows, whereby the duration of the...

    Last updated: April 1, 2022

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • forestry
    • storm-damage
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • FOEN basic monitoring network for surfaces water

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The data show the locations of the stations in the basic monitoring network of the Hydrology Division of the FOEN. It includes all stations currently listed on the FOEN’s home...

    Last updated: December 31, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • environment
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Federal Inventory of Raised and Transition Bogs of National Importance

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Raised bogs are some of the most susceptible habitats in Switzerland and are in sharp decline. Today, between 10% and 20% of the original stocks still exist. The scientific...

    Last updated: December 1, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Diffuse total phosphorus inputs into waters

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Phosphorus inputs into waters represent an undesirable pollution load. A total of some 3,400 tonnes of total phosphorus (dissolved and particulate phosphorus) enter Swiss waters...

    Last updated: January 1, 2023

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • phosphorus
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • water-geographic