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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Current drought situation in Switzerland

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the combined drought index for each region. This index summarises in one value the various factors affecting drought: precipitation, modelled soil moisture and...

Last updated: November 25, 2024
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- API
- HTML
- lake
- atmospheric-precipitation
- agriculture
- flowing-water
- hydrology
- water-geographic
- 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
- HTML
- atmospheric-precipitation
- lake
- water-geographic
- hydrology
- agriculture
- flowing-water
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
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
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
- 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
Vegetation height model Sentinel 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
- 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
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
- SERVICE
- 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
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
River basins (catchment areas)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The river basins form the uppermost aggregation level for the "Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies" geodata set. The large areas with a surface area of usually more...

Last updated: December 1, 2019
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- WMS
- WMTS
- API
- HTML
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
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
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- ZIP
- API
- water-geographic
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- gewiss
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
- HTML
- WMS
- WMTS
- API
- SERVICE
- e-geoch-geoportal
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- environment
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Floodplains outside of the federal inventary

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Of all the floodplains mapped throughout Switzerland, the objects which have not been included in the federal inventory have been compiled in this dataset. A distinction has been...

Last updated: November 1, 2017
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- environment
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- e-geoch
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- air-hygiene
Ammonia Concentration

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Ammonia can harm plants and animals and contributes to elevated nitrogen deposition. Critical levels for ammonia are established in the framework of the UNECE convention on...

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

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Higher concentrations of sulfur dioxide (SO₂) can have especially negative effects on the respiratory tract; asthmatics and people with chronic respiratory diseases are...

Last updated: January 1, 2025
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- SERVICE
- air-pollutant
- air
- atmospheric-conditions
- human-health-and-safety
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
Groundwater bodies of Switzerland

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The groundwater bodies layer shows a simplified and comprehensive breakdown of hydrogeological overview units for Switzerland. The groundwater bodies here have not been developed...

Last updated: April 25, 2017
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- groundwater
- hydrogeology
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Air pollution by particulate matter PM2.5

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

"Particulate matter" (PM2.5) refers to particles less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter. These particles are formed during industrial and commercial production processes, combustion...

Last updated: January 1, 2025
- HTML
- WMS
- WMTS
- SERVICE
- air-pollutant
- air
- atmospheric-conditions
- human-health-and-safety
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
Air pollution by nitrogen dioxide

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The term "nitrogen oxides" (NOx) embraces nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and nitrogen monoxide (NO). Nitrogen oxides form in the combustion of motor and heating fuels, especially when...

Last updated: January 1, 2025
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- SERVICE
- air-pollutant
- air
- atmospheric-conditions
- human-health-and-safety
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
Air pollution by particulate matter PM10

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

"Particulate matter" (PM10) refers to particles less than 10 micrometres in diameter. These particles are formed during industrial and commercial production processes, combustion...

Last updated: January 1, 2025
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- SERVICE
- air-pollutant
- air
- atmospheric-conditions
- human-health-and-safety
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
Air pollution by Ozone

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Ground-level ozone has negative impacts on human health and vegetation. High levels in particular lead to irritation of the respiratory tract and lung tissue. In plants, high ozone...

Last updated: January 1, 2025
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- SERVICE
- air-pollutant
- air
- atmospheric-conditions
- human-health-and-safety
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
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: November 1, 2017
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- environment
- protected-sites
- habitats-and-biotopes
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Biogeographical regions of Switzerland (CH)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The basis for establishing the biogeographical regions (in 6 or 12 classes) were the homogeneous surfaces of the river basins, where relevant and adequately extensive species...

Last updated: March 2, 2004
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- nature-conservation
- flora-biology
- fauna
- bio-geographical-regions
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

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