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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3 datasets found

  • Regional bark beetle windthrow and snow breakage disturbance predisposition maps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Regional disturbance predisposition maps for windthrow, bark beetle and snow breakage. The maps are created using spatially explicit data of classified forest structure and site...

    Last updated: February 18, 2026

    • ZIP
    • als
    • bark-beetle
    • canopy-cover
    • development-stage
    • forest-structure
    • itd
    • predisposition
    • predisposition-mapping
    • snow-breakage
    • stand-height
    • stem-number
    • tree-detection
    • windthrow
  • Forest Canopy Layer Code

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    R script for large-scale mapping of forest canopy layering. The approach combines tree-based and area-based methods, using airborne laser scanning point clouds together with...

    Last updated: November 11, 2025

    • ZIP
    • forest
    • forest-management
    • itd
    • lidar
    • mountain-forest
    • protective-forest
    • vhm
  • Individual Detected Trees

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset provides individual detected trees for selected Swiss Cantons (Appenzell Outer-Rhodes - AR, Grisons - GR, Nidwald - NW, Obwald - OW and St. Gall - SG), including the...

    Last updated: November 14, 2025

    • ZIP
    • development-stage
    • forest-management
    • forest-structure
    • itd
    • mountain-forest
    • nfi