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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37 datasets found

  • FORHYCS v. 1.0.0 model code

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Model code, technical documentation and auxiliary files for the dynamic ecohydrological model FORHYCS (FORests and HYdrology under Climate change in Switzerland). FORHYCS combines...

    Last updated: October 28, 2019

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    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • forest-dynamics
    • forest
    • hydrology
    • modeling
    • climate-change-impact
  • Dataset for OGRS 2018 publication

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the road and plot data used for the geospatial analysis example showcased in "Fostering Open Science at WSL with the EnviDat Environmental Data Portal", a...

    Last updated: October 28, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • roads
    • buffer
    • geospatial
    • jupyter
    • density
    • gis
  • 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

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    • TIFF
    • ZIP
    • PNG
    • forest
    • geoprocessing
    • accessible-forest
    • seilaplan
    • openstreetmap
    • qgis
  • IceCube_microCT_Snow_grainsize

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The specific surface area (SSA) of different snow types were measured with the IceCube instrument and the Scanco Medical microCT 40. In addition, the snow particles created during...

    Last updated: February 19, 2023

    • XLS
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • intercomparison
    • icecube
    • microct
    • specific-surface-area
    • snow
  • Wind crust formation: Microsoft Kinect data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data sets contains the Microsoft Kinect data from 15 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winter 2016/17....

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

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    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • wind-packing
    • snow
    • kinect
    • wind-crust
    • wind-tunnel
  • LWF Seehornwald Davos long-term research site

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

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    This research...

    Last updated: April 6, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • flux
    • lwf
    • swiss-fluxnet
    • plot
    • infrastructure
    • meteorological-data
    • swiss-forest-lab
    • meteorological-measurements
    • icos
    • forest
  • Phytodiversity is associated with habitat heterogeneity from Eurasia to Hengduan

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This research data is used to re includes 1 km resolution seed plant species range maps for the Hengduan mountain region (southwest China), elevation information for each species,...

    Last updated: July 27, 2023

    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • hengduan-mountains
    • hypervolume
    • model-residuals
    • phytodiversity
    • habitat-heterogeneity
  • Terrestrial laser scans on Hammarryggen Ice Rise, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Surface topography maps (spatial extent: 400 m x 400 m) obtained at approximately 300 m from the top of the Hammarryggen Ice Rise in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, using a...

    Last updated: September 20, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • gridded-data
    • antarctica
    • terrestrial-laser-scans
    • terrestiral-laserscanning
    • depth-of-snowfall
  • UAV-derived Digital Surface Models and orthoimages for three alpine glaciers

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    UAV-derived DSMs and orthoimages

    Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys were conducted between 2015 and 2016 on the Sankt Annafirn, Findelen- and Griesgletscher, situated in the...

    Last updated: December 14, 2020

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • sankt-annafirn
    • orthophoto
    • dem
    • drone
    • orthoimage
    • glacier
    • griesgletscher
    • gletscher
    • dsm
    • alps
    • findelengletscher
    • uav
  • Induced Rockfall Dataset (Small Rock Experimental Campaign), Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset of an experimental campaign of induced rockfall in Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland.

    The data archive contains site specific geographical data such as DEM and orthophoto...

    Last updated: October 27, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • rockfall-experiments
    • deposition-points
    • stonenodedata
    • dem
    • natural-hazards
    • rockfall-runout
    • sensor-stream
    • induced-rockfall
    • stonenode
    • rockfall
  • High resolution static data for WRF over Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Static input data (topography, landuse and soiltype) for the WRF preprocessing system WPS is provided for Switzerland and its neighboring countries between 45-49 N and 4-12 E. The...

    Last updated: July 16, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • wrf
    • cosmo-wrf
    • static-data
    • cryowrf
    • topography
    • landuse
  • The Habitat Map of Switzerland v1

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Lebensraumkarte der Schweiz/La carte des milieux naturels de Suisse The FOEN funded project ‘Developing a Habitat Map of Switzerland’ conducted at the WSL, has produced a map of...

    Last updated: October 27, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • remote-sensing
    • modelling
    • habitat
    • typoch
    • shrub-forest
    • milieux-naturels
    • lebensraum
    • wetlands
    • forest
    • lebensraumkarte
    • grassland
    • ensemble-modelling
    • random-forest
  • gbif.range - An R package to generate species range maps based on ecoregions and a user-friendly GBIF wrapper

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Although species range may be obtained using expert maps or modeling methods, expert data is often species-limited and statistical models need more technical expertise as well as...

    Last updated: August 8, 2023

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • occurrence-records
    • conservation
    • ecoregions
    • hard-limit
    • species-observations
    • accepted-name
    • landsca
    • synonyms
    • r-package
    • range-maps
    • flags
    • large-scale
    • gbif
    • filtering
    • taxonomy
    • species-distribution
  • Weissfluhjoch dataset for ESM-SnowMIP

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This Weissfluhjoch dataset is a processed version of the Weissfluhjoch dataset version 6 from https://doi.org/10.16904/6. This dataset was specially created for the ESM-SnowMIP...

    Last updated: May 30, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • esm-snowmip
    • snow-models
    • snow-depth
    • snow
    • weissfluhjoch
  • Stumps as a dead wood resource in forests - data based on the Swiss National Forest Inventory

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Based on the detailed tree stump inventory implemented in the Swiss NFI5 (https://www.lfi.ch/lfi/lfi.php), a study was conducted to obtain an accurate assessment of the stumps pool...

    Last updated: August 10, 2022

    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • national-forest-inventory
    • protection-forest
    • biomass
    • biodiversity
    • volume
    • carbon
  • Input data for break point detection of Swiss snow depth time series

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data set consists of monthly mean values for snow depth and days with snow on the ground intended for the use of break detection with ACMANT, Climatol and HOMER. List and...

    Last updated: February 21, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • homogenisation
    • snow-depth
    • break-detection
    • climate
    • snow-measurements
  • Wind crust formation: SnowMicroPen data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the SnowMicroPen (SMP) data from 38 wind tunnel experiments on wind-packing / wind crust formation. These experiments were performed in the winters 2015/16...

    Last updated: November 14, 2019

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • wind-packing
    • smp
    • wind-crust
    • snow
    • snowmicropen
  • Modeling snow failure with DEM

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes the modeling results described in the research article by Bobiller et al. (2020). All the figures in the article can be reproduced with the data provided.

    Last updated: April 20, 2022

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • discrete-element-modelling
    • snow-failure
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow-micro-mechanics
    • snow
  • High resolution sea ice surface topography from the SIPEX-2 expedition, East Antarctica, 2012

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset comprises of a post-processed set of terrestrial laser scans (TLS’s) of Antarctic sea ice obtained during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment-2 (SIPEX-2,...

    Last updated: May 31, 2022

    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • tls
    • terrestrial-laser-scans
    • sea-ice-elevation
    • polar
    • sea-ice
  • Simulated and observed prevalence of dispersal-related traits in tropical reef fish assemblages worldwide

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains all data and R codes (R Development Core Team, https://www.R-project.org) used in the following publication: Donati GFA, Parravicini V, Leprieur F, Hagen O,...

    Last updated: September 27, 2023

    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • ecology
    • traits
    • biodiversity
    • reef-fish
    • dispersal