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4 datasets found

  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 18'737 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 24 January 2018. The outlines have different attributes described in the data example key...

    Last updated: April 20, 2023

    • SHP
    • natural-hazard
    • snow
    • satellite
    • hazard-mapping
    • avalanche
  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 16 January 2019

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 6'041 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 16 January 2019. The dataset was acquired following a period with very high avalanche danger....

    Last updated: May 12, 2023

    • SHP
    • avalanche
    • satellite
    • hazard-mapping
    • natural-hazard
    • snow
  • 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
  • HYDROpot_integral

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A spatial dataset and tool to simultaneously assess hydropower potential and ecological potential of the Swiss river network (Version 2016)

    Introduction The steadily growing...

    Last updated: May 30, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • SHP
    • decision-making
    • integral-water-management
    • ecosystem-protection
    • gis
    • hydropower