The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research is concerned with the use, development and protection of natural and urban spaces. The focus of our research is on solving problems to do with the responsible use of landscapes and forests and a prudent approach to natural hazards, especially those common in mountainous countries. WSL occupies a leading position internationally in these research areas. We also provide groundwork for sustainable environmental policies in Switzerland.

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6 datasets found

  • Large GIS raster data derived from Natural Earth Data (Cross Blended Hypso with Shaded Relief and Water)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The attached data are some large GIS raster files (GeoTIFFs) made with Natural Earth data. Natural Earth is a free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. The data used...

    Last updated: April 29, 2022

    • TIFF
    • SERVICE
    • large-files
    • natural-earth
    • cross-blended-hypso-with-shaded-relief-and-water
    • gis
    • qgis
  • Snow Depth Mapping

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The available datasets are snow depth maps with a spatial resolution of 2m generated from image matching of ADS 80/100 data. Image acquisition took place at peak of winter (time...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • TIFF
    • PDF
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • dsm
    • avalanche
    • snow-depth
    • snow-hydrology
    • aerial-imagery
    • image-matching
  • Cropland and grassland map of Switzerland based on Sentinel-2 data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We developed a map of cropland and grassland allocation for Switzerland based on several indices dominantly derived from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery captured over multiple growing...

    Last updated: March 29, 2021

    • TIFF
    • GeoTIFF
    • SERVICE
    • agriculture
    • habitat
    • phenology
    • remote-sensing
    • machine-learning
    • switzerland
    • cropland
    • grassland
    • vegetation-indices
    • sentinel-2
  • Environmental layers for SDM simulations (GDPlants)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains seven environmental layers (average annual temperature, aridity [annual precipitation divided by annual potential evapotranspiration], frost change frequency,...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • TIFF
    • SERVICE
    • soil
    • frost-change-velocity
    • aridity
    • sdms
    • precipitation
    • ground-temperature
  • Sample Geodata and Software for Demonstrating Geospatial Preprocessing for Forest Accessibility and Wood Harvesting at FOSS4G2019

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains open vector data for railways, forests and power lines, as well an open digital elevation model (DEM) for a small area around a sample forest range in Europe...

    Last updated: December 2, 2019

    • PNG
    • ZIP
    • TIFF
    • SERVICE
    • openstreetmap
    • accessible-forest
    • geoprocessing
    • qgis
    • seilaplan
    • forest
  • UAS based snow depth maps Brämabüel, Davos, CH

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This snow depth map was generated 14 January 2015, close to peak of winter accumulation, applying Unmanned Aerial System digital surface models with a spatial resolution of 10 cm....

    Last updated: October 27, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • TIFF
    • uas
    • snow
    • remote-sensing
    • swe
    • snow-depth