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Springs and swallow holes in karst regions

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Karst springs and swallow holes layer shows the main points where groundwater emerges from the karst system as well as important infiltration points. Distinctions are made...

Last updated: July 1, 2015
- groundwater
- hydrogeology
- spring-hydrology-land
- karst
- environment
Underground flow paths in karst regions

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Underground flow paths layer indicates the probable direction taken by the groundwater in karst regions within the catchments towards the relevant spring. These interpretations...

Last updated: July 1, 2015
- karst
- environment
- spring-hydrology-land
- hydrogeology
- groundwater
Extent of groundwater resources in karst regions

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Karst water resources layer shows the extent of the water-saturated zone of a karstified aquifer projected to the surface. It is determined by the karst water level and...

Last updated: July 1, 2015
- hydrogeology
- spring-hydrology-land
- environment
- karst
- groundwater
Catchments in karst regions

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Karst catchments layer depicts those areas where seepage water flows into a specific spring and feeds it. Catchments can occasionally overlap, namely where sections of them...

Last updated: July 1, 2015
- karst
- groundwater
- environment
- hydrogeology
- spring-hydrology-land
Catchment units in karst regions

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Karst catchment units layer consists of the unit areas from which similar groundwater flow behaviour towards the karst spring can be expected. In particular, it allows for the...

Last updated: July 1, 2015
- environment
- hydrogeology
- groundwater
- karst
- spring-hydrology-land
Forest mix rate NFI

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

Information on the degree of forest mix rate NFI is modelled using remote sensing methods. Based on the freely available Copernicus (ESA) Sentinel-1 and -2 satellite data (image...

Last updated: October 31, 2023
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- official-geodata
- fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- deciduous-forest
- mixed-woodland
- wood
- forest-resource
- coniferous-forest
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Swiss residual flow maps Supply

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
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
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- wood
- forest-resource
- forest-ecology
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Geodata model and documentation "NoisePollutionRegisterForRailwayInfrastructure_LV95_V1_4"

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Minimales Geodatenmodell und Dokumentation zum Geobasidatensatz "Lärmbelastungskataster für Eisenbahnanlagen", Identifikator 126.1. Bezugsrahmen LV95. Die Kataloge werden auch...

Last updated: April 29, 2025
- XML
- PDF
- minimum-geodata-model-mgdm
- minimum-geodata-model-mgdm
- model-documentation
- model-documentation
- noise
- railway
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
- SERVICE
- WMS
- ZIP
- lake
- water-geographic
- hydrology
- flowing-water
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Areas of silver fir

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

The map shows the areas of silver fir occurrence. In the main area, fir is naturally involved to a considerable extent in the stand development in the upper montane and...

Last updated: June 3, 2020
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- wood
- forest-resource
- forest-ecology
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Altitudinal vegetation belts in Switzerland for 2085 with less dry future climate

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

This map shows the altitudinal vegetation belts of forest vegetation in Switzerland for the period 2070-2099 assuming a less dry future climate. The following altitudinal...

Last updated: September 16, 2021
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- wood
- forest-ecology
- forest-resource
- 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
- SERVICE
- WMS
- ZIP
- lake
- hydrology
- water-geographic
- watercourse
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Areas of storm damage caused by “Vivian” in 1990

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Federal government inventory of damage caused by “Vivian” in February 1990: database of areas of total damage in forests. Defined criteria and conditions: Area of total damage:...

Last updated: January 15, 1992
- SERVICE
- WMTS
- WMS
- forestry
- storm-damage
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
General situation of groundwater levels and spring discharges

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map provides an overview of the current groundwater levels and spring discharges in Switzerland. Percentiles based on the daily values of the reference period 1991–2020 are...

Last updated: September 21, 2016
- SERVICE
- WMS
- ZIP
- hydrology
- water-geographic
- 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
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
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
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- API
- environment
- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- official-geodata
Nitrogen Deposition

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The time series shows the modelled total deposition of nitrogen for the years 1990, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020 in a resolution of 500m as a sum of wet, dry and gaseous...

Last updated: August 15, 2022
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- air
- pollutant
- air-pollutant
- human-health-and-safety
- atmospheric-conditions
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
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

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