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5 datasets found

  • Data reliability study: avalanche size estimates and outlines

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the data used and collected to investigate the reliability of avalanche size estimates and avalanche outlines (see related publications). Namely this is

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    Last updated: September 1, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • avalanche
    • reliability
    • remote-sensing
    • avalanche-size-estimation
    • avalanche-mapping
  • Grassland-use intensity maps for Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A rule-based algorithm (Schwieder et al., 2022) was used to produce annual maps for 2018–2021 of grassland-management events, i.e....

    Last updated: August 3, 2023

    • GeoTIFF
    • PNG
    • TXT
    • use-intensity
    • sentinel-2
    • remote-sensing
    • landsat
    • mowing
    • land-use
    • grassland
    • management
  • 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

    • GeoTIFF
    • SERVICE
    • TIFF
    • cropland
    • grassland
    • remote-sensing
    • agriculture
    • sentinel-2
    • habitat
    • switzerland
    • vegetation-indices
    • phenology
    • machine-learning
  • Challenging the sustainability of urban beekeeping: evidence from Swiss cities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Data on: (1) spatial distribution of urban beekeeping (number of hives and number of beekeeping locations) in 14 Swiss cities (Geneva, Lausanne, Biel, Neuchatel, Basel, Zurich,...

    Last updated: February 10, 2023

    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • remote-sensing
    • sustainability
    • pollination
    • honeybees
    • urbanization
    • urban-biodiversity
  • 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
    • swe
    • remote-sensing
    • snow
    • snow-depth
    • uas