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10 datasets found

  • 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
  • CHELSA-TraCE21k: Downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the last glacial maximum

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    High resolution, downscaled climate model data are used in a wide variety of applications in environmental sciences. Here we present the CHELSA-TraCE21k downscaling algorithm to...

    Last updated: June 7, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • PDF
    • GeoTIFF
    • orography
    • precipitation
    • paleo-climate
    • glaciers
    • air-temperature
    • last-glacial-maximum
  • Present and future multifaceted plant diversity, uniqueness and conservation in the European Alps

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains extensive data for the European Alps:

    • Observations of ~3,500 plant species
    • Climate (1-km), soil (100-m) and land cover predictors (1km); current...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

    • GeoTIFF
    • european-alps
    • land-use-change
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • functional-diversity
    • conservation
    • global-change
    • zonation
    • species-distribution-models
    • beta-diversity
    • plants
    • phylogenetic-diversity
    • migclim
  • Spatially explicit data to evaluate spatial planning outcomes in a coastal region in São Paulo State, Brazil

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper entitled “The role of spatial planning in land change: An assessment of urban planning and nature conservation...

    Last updated: January 6, 2022

    • GeoTIFF
    • SHP
    • PDF
    • SERVICE
    • planning-outcome
    • spatial-modelling
    • basic-services
    • built-up-classification
    • urban-compactness
    • forest-persistence
    • forest-gain
    • nature-conservation
    • urban-sprawl
    • topography
    • urban-morphology
    • land-use-and-cover-change
  • 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
  • Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at high...

    Last updated: September 10, 2021

    • PDF
    • GeoTIFF
    • bioclim
    • climate
    • climate-layers
    • precipitation
    • climate-change
    • temperature
    • climatology
    • free-climate-data
  • Snow depth mapping by airplane photogrammetry (2017 - ongoing)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The available datasets are snow depth maps with a spatial resolution of 0.5 m derived from images of the survey camera Vexcel Ultracam mounted on a piloted airplane. Image...

    Last updated: August 23, 2023

    • GeoTIFF
    • dischma
    • snow-depth-distribution
    • avalanches
    • photogrammetry
    • snow-hydrology
    • davos
  • CHELSAcruts - High resolution temperature and precipitation timeseries for the 20th century and beyond

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    CHELSAcruts is a delta change monthly climate dataset for the years 1901-2016 for mean monthly maximum temperatures, mean monthly minimum temperatures, and monthly precipitation...

    Last updated: April 20, 2021

    • PDF
    • GeoTIFF
    • climate-layers
    • air-temperature
    • climate
    • minimum-temperature
    • precipitation
    • maximum-temperature
    • century
    • free-climate-data
    • timeseries
  • Vegetation Height Model NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A national vegetation height model was calculated for Switzerland using digital aerial images. We used the stereo aerial images acquired by the Federal Office of Topography...

    Last updated: September 12, 2023

    • PDF
    • GeoTIFF
    • SERVICE
    • point-cloud
    • vegetation-height-model
    • forest
    • photogrammety
    • 3d
  • CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ A novel set of global climate-related predictors at kilometre-resolution

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A multitude of physical and biological processes on which ecosystems and human societies depend are governed by climatic conditions. Understanding how these processes are altered...

    Last updated: September 21, 2022

    • PDF
    • GeoTIFF
    • solar-radiation
    • temperature
    • relative-humidity
    • precipitation
    • growing-degree-days
    • growing-season-length
    • soil-water-balance