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 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
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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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- water-geographic
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Reaches surveyed - cross section securing point

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the reaches of watercourses which are currently surveyed periodically under the leadership of the FOEN. They are usually surveyed every 10 years or after major floods...

Last updated: February 1, 2026
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Database of cross sections (CS) - surveyed sections

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the reaches of watercourses which are currently surveyed periodically under the leadership of the FOEN. They are usually surveyed every 10 years or after major floods...

Last updated: February 1, 2026
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Federal Inventory of Reserves for Waterbirds and Migratory Birds of international and national importance

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Switzerland is especially important as a wintering and resting site for various migratory waterbirds. As a result, in 1974 the Federal Council signed a convention on watercourses...

Last updated: July 1, 2023
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- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- migratory-bird
- waterfowl
- environment
- protected-sites
- habitats-and-biotopes
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Swiss National Park and parks of national importance (Zones)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The dataset contains the protected area of the ‘Swiss National Park’, which is protected in accordance with the National Park Act of 19 December 1980 (SR454) as well as park...

Last updated: April 30, 2025
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Swiss National Park and parks of national importance (Perimeter)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The dataset contains the protected area of the ‘Swiss National Park’, which is protected in accordance with the National Park Act of 19 December 1980 (SR454) as well as park...

Last updated: April 30, 2025
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- protected-sites
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Ecomorphology Level F - Structures

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

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

Last updated: August 8, 2013
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- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Ecomorphology Level F – Drop structures

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

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

Last updated: August 8, 2013
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- official-geodata
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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- official-geodata
Hydrogeological map of Switzerland 1:100000

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Published by the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, the specialist office of the Swiss Geological Survey responsible for hydrogeology.The hydrogeological map 1:100,000 shows...

Last updated: December 31, 2014
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- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
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
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- 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
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
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- forest-resource
- wood
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Extreme Point Precipitation

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The maps on extreme point precipitation describe the precipitation depths for rare heavy precipitation events under current climatic conditions. The analyses can be presented for...

Last updated: January 1, 2022
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- confederation
Database of wasterwater treatment plants (ARA-DB) - capacity (PE)

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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- gewiss
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Mean Annual Evaporation 1973–1992

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The present evaporation map was first published in the Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland in 1999. For the digital version of the atlas, these values will initially be used, since...

Last updated: January 1, 1999
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Federal Inventory of Hunting Ban Reserves

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Federal hunting bans have existed since 1875 and served the purpose of raising the populations of chamois, red deer and roe deer as well as ibex (cloven-hoofed game), which had...

Last updated: June 15, 2023
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- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- environment
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies: Area outlets

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The "Area outlets" data set is part of the "Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies" geodata set. It consists of point objects that represent the area outlets for a...

Last updated: July 1, 2010
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Protection forest regions 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 six areas. They represent different forest growth and protective forest conditions.

Last updated: November 16, 2020
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- RDF XML
- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- wood
- forest-resource
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Production regions 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 five areas, namely Jura, Central Plateau, Pre-Alps, Alps, and the southern side of the Alps. They represent...

Last updated: November 16, 2020
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- forest-resource
- wood
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

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