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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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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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- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- natural-risk
- natural-risk-analysis
- air-movement
- wind
- storm
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Swiss National Park and parks of national importance (Zones)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The dataset contains the protected area of the ‘Swiss National Park’, which is protected in accordance with the National Park Act of 19 December 1980 (SR454) as well as park...

Last updated: April 30, 2025
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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- environment
- protected-sites
- official-geodata
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Bathing water quality

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Assessment of bathing water quality is carried out on the basis of cantonal water monitoring data relating to the hygienic parameters E. coli and intestinal enterococci (faecal...

Last updated: December 31, 2024
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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- RDF XML
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- gewiss
Pro Natura: Nature Preserves

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Pro Natura sichert mit Verträgen über 770 Naturschutzgebiete in der Schweiz mit einer Gesamtfläche von rund 270 km2. Aus unterschiedlichen Gründen dürfen öffentlich nur 763 Gebiete...

Last updated: December 31, 2022
- WMS
- WMTS
- SERVICE
- API
- GPKG
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Emerald sites

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Emerald Network is a Europeanwide network that seeks to protect endangered animal and plant species and natural habitats listed in the Bern Convention. To obtain Emerald...

Last updated: September 17, 2009
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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- biotope
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Swiss National Park and parks of national importance (Perimeter)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The dataset contains the protected area of the ‘Swiss National Park’, which is protected in accordance with the National Park Act of 19 December 1980 (SR454) as well as park...

Last updated: April 30, 2025
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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- environment
- protected-sites
- official-geodata
- 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
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- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- forestry
- storm-damage
- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
UNESCO World natural heritage

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention, SR 0.451.41) was signed at the UNESCO General Conference in 1972....

Last updated: January 1, 2021
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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- natural-heritage
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Stations hydrological forecasts

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map provides an overview of stations forecasted by FEWS.

Last updated: January 30, 2015
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- WMS
- ZIP
- hydrology
- flowing-water
- water-geographic
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Basis for determining Q347 flow rate

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Water Protection Act specifies how appropriate residual flows can be determined. This applies to new water withdrawals and also to existing withdrawals for which concessions...

Last updated: January 1, 2000
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- API
- water-geographic
- 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
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- WMS
- WMTS
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- wood
- forest-resource
- forest-ecology
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Estimation of direct CO₂ emissions based on heat demand according to SIA standard 380/1 (2016)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Swiss building stock is responsible for around a quarter of CO2 emissions. Reductions in this area are key to achieving the climate targets.
The map "CO2 Emissions...

Last updated: September 9, 2022
- WMS
- WMTS
- API
- SERVICE
- HTML
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- climate
Vegetation height model 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, 2023
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- WMS
- API
- fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- wood
- forest-resource
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Swiss residual flow maps Return flows

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
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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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- 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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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- 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
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- 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
- SERVICE
- API
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- 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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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- 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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- WMS
- WMTS
- API
- HTML
- gewiss
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- water

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