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.

42 datasets found

  • 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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    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • official-geodata
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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    • 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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    • WMTS
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    • environment
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • official-geodata
  • 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
  • National Air Pollution Monitoring Network NABEL: stations

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL) monitors air quality at 16 different locations in Switzerland. The monitoring stations are spread over the entire country and...

    Last updated: January 1, 2021

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    • pollutant
    • air
    • air-pollutant
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • e-geoch
  • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • WMTS
    • API
    • 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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    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • WMS
    • API
    • 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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    • vector
    • renaturation
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • official-geodata
  • 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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    • WMS
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    • RDF XML
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • 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

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • 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

    • SERVICE
    • 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

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • 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