- Last updated
- October 30, 2025
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- Organization
- EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
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Description
The SwissRad10 dataset contains light availability maps at 10 m and hourly resolution across an entire annual cycle with wall-to-wall coverage across the whole of Switzerland. Areas below and within 25 m of forests include light availability calculated for both leaf-on and leaf-off canopy structure, and terrain only data is available across the full domain. The variables sky-view factor and direct-beam transmissivity are both included, allowing estimation of both direct and diffuse light at the ground surface. The dataset was calculated using the detailed synthetic hemispheric image-based ray-tracing Canopy Radiation Model (CanRad) with the latest airborne lidar and terrain surface data from the swissSURFACE3D dataset.
Resources
- SERVICE Data Download
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Additional information
- Identifier
- ad0fe95b-6cef-4ad3-9573-11367df9b6ca@envidat
- Issued date
- September 23, 2024
- Modified date
- October 30, 2025
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- Publisher
- EnviDat
- Contact points
- Languages
- English
- Further information
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- Landing page
- https://www.envidat.ch/#/metadata/swissrad10-hourly-light-availability-maps-at-10-m-resolution-over-switzerland
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- Temporal coverage
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- Metadata Access
- API (JSON) Download XML
