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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NFI: Topics by tree species (5 classes)

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

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a periodic survey of condition and development of the Swiss forest. It is produced in close cooperation between the Federal Office for the...

Last updated: October 14, 2024
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- forest
- forestry
- national-forest-inventory
NFI: Topics by aspect (9 classes)

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

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a periodic survey of condition and development of the Swiss forest. It is produced in close cooperation between the Federal Office for the...

Last updated: October 14, 2024
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- HTML
- forest
- forestry
- national-forest-inventory
NFI: Topics by diameter at breast height (in 4 cm classes)

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

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a periodic survey of condition and development of the Swiss forest. It is produced in close cooperation between the Federal Office for the...

Last updated: October 14, 2024
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- SPARQL
- forest
- forestry
- national-forest-inventory
NFI: Topics by diameter at breast height (main diameter classes)

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

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a periodic survey of condition and development of the Swiss forest. It is produced in close cooperation between the Federal Office for the...

Last updated: October 14, 2024
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- HTML
- forest
- forestry
- national-forest-inventory
Forest fire prevention measures

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

Contains the forest fire prevention measures currently in force in the cantons.

Last updated: December 17, 2025
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NFI: Change

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

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a periodic survey of condition and development of the Swiss forest. It is produced in close cooperation between the Federal Office for the...

Last updated: October 14, 2024
- SPARQL
- HTML
- forest
- forestry
- national-forest-inventory
Federal Inventory of Mire Landscapes of Particular Beauty and National Significance

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Mire landscapes are essentially semi-natural landscapes shaped by mires that are also home to other noteworthy natural and cultural elements. They are the last remaining habitats...

Last updated: November 1, 2017
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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 National Park

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Switzerland’s National Park was created in 1909 through private initiatives. When the Confederation took over, it was officially created on 1 August 1914. The park was expanded...

Last updated: January 17, 2001
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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
- environment
- landscape
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Nighttime road traffic noise exposure

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the nighttime road traffic noise to which the population is exposed. The data is based on area-wide model calculations (sonBASE). The Swiss road network included in...

Last updated: December 31, 2021
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
- noise-abatement
- noise-immission
- noise-effect
- traffic-noise
- noise-level
- noise
- noise-pollutant
- human-health-and-safety
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Federal Inventory of Floodplains of National Importance

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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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- e-geoch
- official-geodata
- biodiversity
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- environment
- protected-sites
- habitats-and-biotopes
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Daytime road traffic noise exposure

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the daytime road traffic noise to which the population is exposed. The data is based on area-wide model calculations (sonBASE). The Swiss road network included in...

Last updated: December 31, 2021
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- official-geodata
- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- noise-pollutant
- noise-abatement
- noise
- traffic-noise
- noise-effect
- noise-immission
- noise-level
- human-health-and-safety
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Ecomorphology Level F – River reaches

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

To enable watercourses to be fully protected, their status must be known. The Modular Stepwise Procedure provides the framework for standardised investigation and assessment of...

Last updated: August 8, 2013
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- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- vector
- renaturation
- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- official-geodata
Distribution of ibex colonies

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

After being resettled in 1906, Alpine (Capra) ibex live in colonies of varying sizes throughout the Alpine region and in the Jura mountains. Because the growth of stocks in...

Last updated: March 31, 2021
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- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
- official-geodata
- environment
- game-animals
- wild-animal
- species-distribution
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
Federal Inventory of Floodplains of National Importance

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

1987 liess das BUWAL eine detaillierte Vegetationskartierung der Objekte des Vernehmlassungsversion des Aueninventars ausarbeiten. Im Rahmen dieser Kartierungen wurden die...

Last updated: May 26, 2015
- WMTS
- environment
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- e-geoch
Precipitation since 1864

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

These maps show the distribution of precipitation in Switzerland since 1864, both as annual, seasonal, and monthly totals for individual years and as standard values averaged over...

Last updated: January 1, 2020
- SERVICE
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- confederation
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
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

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