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.

235 datasets found

  • Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 30 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • natural-risk
    • air-movement
    • wind
    • storm
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Gusts at return period 100 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk
    • air-movement
    • storm
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • wind
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Gusts at return period 30 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • storm
    • wind
    • air-movement
    • natural-risk
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Gusts at return period 300 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • natural-risk
    • wind
    • air-movement
    • storm
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 300 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • air-movement
    • wind
    • storm
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Gusts at return period 50 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • wind
    • storm
    • air-movement
    • natural-risk
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 100 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • air-movement
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • wind
    • storm
    • natural-risk
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 50 years

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2014

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • air-movement
    • storm
    • wind
    • natural-risk
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Emerald sites

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Emerald Network is a Europeanwide network that seeks to protect endangered animal and plant species and natural habitats listed in the Bern Convention. To obtain Emerald...

    Last updated: September 17, 2009

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • biotope
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • HWGWP flood crest gauge

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    This set of data depicts the locations of the federal flood measuring stations, known as "Hochwassergrenzwertpegel". The data was collected in 2005; readings are no longer being...

    Last updated: January 1, 2005

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • water-geographic
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • gewiss
  • Interregional wildlife corridor

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    First, known wildlife corridors were recorded from existing data at the cantonal level, and potential corridors were detected by GIS and then divided into wildlife corridors of...

    Last updated: February 1, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • fauna
    • wild-animal
    • biotope-network
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Wildlife network system

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    First, known wildlife corridors were recorded from existing data at the cantonal level, and potential corridors were detected by GIS and then divided into wildlife corridors of...

    Last updated: February 19, 2013

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • WMS
    • HTML
    • wild-animal
    • fauna
    • biotope-network
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • 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: September 1, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fauna
    • flora-biology
    • nature-conservation
    • bio-geographical-regions
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Rhus typhina

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

    The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring...

    Last updated: April 2, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Biosphere reserves

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Biosphere reserves are not only used to protect and preserve ecosystems, but also for environmental research, environmentally-friendly land use and environmental education. They...

    Last updated: January 1, 2017

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • biosphere
    • protected-area
    • biosphere-reserve
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Molybdenum

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Interpolierte Element-Konzentrationen (mg/kg Feinerde) in den Oberböden (0–20 cm) der Schweiz. Für die Ordinary Kriging Interpolationen (1 km x 1 km) wurden Messdaten von insgesamt...

    Last updated: June 30, 2023

    • HTML
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • SERVICE
    • soil
    • soil
    • interpolation
    • biogeochemistry
    • atlas
    • confederation
    • soil-mapping
    • soil-properties
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Overland flow map

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The areas affected by overland flow were determined using a simplified method the over entire Switzerland and Liechtenstein. They were determined by modelling without any...

    Last updated: February 9, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • surface-runoff
    • thunderstorm
    • flooding
    • flood
    • natural-risk-analysis
    • natural-hazard
    • rain
    • danger-analysis
    • natural-risk
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Lonicera henryi

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring...

    Last updated: April 2, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Seismic zones according to the SIA 261 standard

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Map of seismic zones from the SIA 261 Standard “Actions on Structures” (2020). A design value is specified for the horizontal ground acceleration agd (in m/s2). This design value...

    Last updated: March 30, 2011

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • natural-risk
    • hazard-area
    • earthquake
    • natural-risk-zones
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • hazard-map
  • 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