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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Water status monitoring stations CH

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The data set represents the monitoring stations where the water status is recorded. The cantons are responsible for water protection enforcement, as they are for other...

Last updated: March 1, 2013
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- environment
- human-health-and-safety
- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- water
Assessment of the Biological Water Status: Macrophytes

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Within the National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NAWA), water quality is recorded jointly by the federal and cantonal authorities at around 100 monitoring stations....

Last updated: March 26, 2014
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- WMS
- HTML
- API
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- watercourse
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
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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Groundwater temperature

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map provides an overview of Switzerland's current groundwater temperatures. The calculation is based on percentiles of the dataset for the standard period 1991–2020 or, in the...

Last updated: June 23, 2022
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- WMS
- ZIP
- hydrology
- groundwater
- 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
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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
General situation of rivers and lakes

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the current Swissriver discharges and lake water levels compared with the monthly percentiles of the long term hourly averages (expressed in percentiles). The...

Last updated: October 30, 2014
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- WMS
- ZIP
- lake
- water-geographic
- hydrology
- flowing-water
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Comparison of discharge and water gauge data with hazard levels

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the current discharge at all the stations, as compared with flood hazard levels.

Last updated: October 30, 2014
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- WMS
- ZIP
- lake
- hydrology
- water-geographic
- watercourse
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Flood alert map

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The flood alert map shows the current flood danger level (1 to 5) for all and for the regions in relation to small and medium-sized rivers. The rivers of national interest are...

Last updated: November 5, 2014
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- WMS
- ZIP
- flood
- flowing-water
- hydrology
- lake
- natural-hazard
- water-geographic
- 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
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- 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
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- WMTS
- SERVICE
- HTML
- heavy-metal-load
- biogeochemistry
- interpolation
- toxic-metal
- atlas
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- confederation
- soil-properties
- soil-mapping
- soil
Water temperature of rivers and streams

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map provides an overview of current water temperatures in Switzerland's rivers.

Last updated: October 30, 2014
- SERVICE
- WMS
- ZIP
- flowing-water
- hydrology
- water-geographic
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
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

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