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.

58 datasets found

  • 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

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • gewiss
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Map of the recent earthquakes (last 90 days) in and around Switzerland

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map of the earthquakes of the last 90 days shows the current seismic activity in Switzerland and the nearby regions recorded by the Swiss Seismological Service at the ETH...

    Last updated: November 1, 2016

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • API
    • earthquake
    • landsat
    • natural-risk-zones
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Database of wastewater treatment plants (ARA-DB) - cleaning type

    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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    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • gewiss
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • water
  • Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies 2 km²

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The data set ‹sub-basins 2 km²› is the central element of the geodata set. It is made up of a comprehensive mosaic of over 22,000 topographically defined sub-basin areas that can...

    Last updated: July 1, 2010

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • hydrography
    • official-geodata
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Federal Inventory of Amphibian Spawning Sites of National Importance - Stationary Objects

    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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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Economic regions NFI

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

    Switzerland is divided into fourteen areas according to the geometry of the data set. They represent different forest growth and economic conditions and represent a refinement of...

    Last updated: November 16, 2020

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    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • WMS
    • API
    • RDF XML
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • forest-resource
    • wood
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Federal Inventory of Fens of National Importance

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Fens are vestiges of earlier natural and cultural landscapes and are in sharp decline. They are home to highly-adapted symbiotic communities of plants and animals that include a...

    Last updated: December 1, 2025

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    • 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
  • Swiss water topographical catchment areas: Main river section

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The data set “Main river section” is part of the geo dataset “Swiss water topographical catchment areas”. The main river in ​​a catchment area is the body of water that leaves the...

    Last updated: July 1, 2010

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • hydrography
    • 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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    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • 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
  • 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
  • Vegetation height model Lidar 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, 2024

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
    • wood
    • forest-resource
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • 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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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • pollutant
    • air
    • air-pollutant
    • atmospheric-conditions
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • e-geoch
  • 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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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • 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

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • 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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    • WMTS
    • HTML
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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

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • GDB
    • water-geographic
    • water
    • gewiss
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • 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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    • HTML
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • 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
  • Mean Precipitation throughout the Alps 1971–2008

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The present maps show the distribution of long-term mean precipitation in the Alpine region 1971–2008 for a a calendar year, the twelve calendar months, as well as the four...

    Last updated: January 1, 2018

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    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • confederation