20 datasets found

  • 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
    • agriculture
    • cropland
    • grassland
    • habitat
    • machine-learning
    • phenology
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • switzerland
    • vegetation-indices
  • 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

    • PDF
    • SHP
    • SERVICE
    • GeoTIFF
    • basic-services
    • built-up-classification
    • forest-gain
    • forest-persistence
    • land-use-and-cover-change
    • nature-conservation
    • planning-outcome
    • spatial-modelling
    • topography
    • urban-compactness
    • urban-morphology
    • urban-sprawl
  • 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: February 14, 2024

    • PNG
    • GeoTIFF
    • TXT
    • SERVICE
    • grassland
    • land-use
    • landsat
    • management
    • mowing
    • remote-sensing
    • sentinel-2
    • use-intensity
  • 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: September 19, 2024

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • air-temperature
    • century
    • climate
    • climate-layers
    • free-climate-data
    • maximum-temperature
    • minimum-temperature
    • precipitation
    • timeseries
  • 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 19, 2024

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • bioclim
    • climate
    • climate-change
    • climate-layers
    • climatology
    • free-climate-data
    • precipitation
    • temperature
  • 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 19, 2024

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • growing-degree-days
    • growing-season-length
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • soil-water-balance
    • solar-radiation
    • temperature
  • 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: June 2, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • beta-diversity
    • conservation
    • european-alps
    • functional-diversity
    • global-change
    • land-use-change
    • migclim
    • phylogenetic-diversity
    • plants
    • species-distribution-models
    • taxonomic-diversity
    • zonation
  • Historical Vegetation Height Model NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The main datasets available are 4 nationwide Digital Surface Models (DSMs) and corresponding Vegetation Height Models (VHMs) with a spatial resolution of 1 m. The...

    Last updated: July 3, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • TXT
    • dsm
    • forest
    • historical
    • nfi
    • photogrammetry
    • vhm
  • Large GIS raster data derived from Natural Earth Data (Cross Blended Hypso with Shaded Relief and Water)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The attached data are some large GIS raster files (GeoTIFFs) made with Natural Earth data. Natural Earth is a free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. The data used...

    Last updated: August 20, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • SERVICE
    • cross-blended-hypso-with-shaded-relief-and-water
    • gis
    • large-files
    • natural-earth
    • qgis
  • 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: August 26, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • air-temperature
    • glaciers
    • last-glacial-maximum
    • orography
    • paleo-climate
    • precipitation
  • 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: November 13, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • avalanches
    • davos
    • dischma
    • photogrammetry
    • snow-depth-distribution
    • snow-hydrology
  • Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Annual average of the modelled wind speed and direction at a height of 75 metres above the ground

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    The Wind Atlas of Switzerland describes the wind conditions at five different heights above the ground: 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150 metres. The data are based on a nation-wide...

    Last updated: October 23, 2019

    • WMS
    • GPKG
    • GDB
    • GeoTIFF
    • INTERLIS
    • SERVICE
    • renewable-energy-source
    • wind-power
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Frequency of meteorological icing at 100 metres above the ground

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    In Switzerland, the mountain regions (Jura, Alps and Alpine foothills) are the most suitable regions for exploiting wind energy potential. But here, the air temperature during the...

    Last updated: May 31, 2016

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • GeoTIFF
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • meteorology
    • energy
    • wind-power
    • wind-power-station
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Thermal networks: demand from residential and commercial buildings

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    The demand for heat and cooling is a key element in the strategic planning of thermal networks. Building a thermal network is only viable if sufficient sales turnover can be...

    Last updated: December 31, 2013

    • GPKG
    • GeoTIFF
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • INTERLIS
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Annual average of the modelled wind speed and direction at a height of 50 metres above the ground

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    The Wind Atlas of Switzerland describes the wind conditions at five different heights above the ground: 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150 metres. The data are based on a nation-wide...

    Last updated: October 23, 2019

    • WMS
    • GPKG
    • GDB
    • GeoTIFF
    • INTERLIS
    • SERVICE
    • renewable-energy-source
    • wind-power
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Thermal networks: demand from industry

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    In strategic planning, heat demand is used to identify large connected areas that may be appropriate for a thermal network. Areas with a heat density of at least 700 MWh/a per...

    Last updated: December 31, 2013

    • GPKG
    • GeoTIFF
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • INTERLIS
    • SERVICE
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Annual average of the modelled wind speed and direction at a height of 150 metres above the ground

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    The Wind Atlas of Switzerland describes the wind conditions at five different heights above the ground: 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150 metres. The data are based on a nation-wide...

    Last updated: October 23, 2019

    • WMS
    • GPKG
    • GDB
    • GeoTIFF
    • INTERLIS
    • SERVICE
    • renewable-energy-source
    • wind-power
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Annual average of the modelled wind speed and direction at a height of 100 metres above the ground

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    The Wind Atlas of Switzerland describes the wind conditions at five different heights above the ground: 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150 metres. The data are based on a nation-wide...

    Last updated: October 23, 2019

    • WMS
    • GPKG
    • GDB
    • GeoTIFF
    • INTERLIS
    • SERVICE
    • wind-power
    • renewable-energy-source
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Wind energy concept – Swiss federal government basic map of main areas with wind-power potential

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    The wind energy concept is a concept in accordance with Art. 13 of the Swiss Spatial Planning Act (SPA, SR 700). The concept defines both the principal federal government interests...

    Last updated: September 18, 2020

    • WMS
    • GeoTIFF
    • SERVICE
    • wind
    • planning
    • wind-power
    • renewable-energy-source
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Annual average of the modelled wind speed and direction at a height of 125 metres above the ground

    Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    The Wind Atlas of Switzerland describes the wind conditions at five different heights above the ground: 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150 metres. The data are based on a nation-wide...

    Last updated: October 23, 2019

    • WMS
    • GPKG
    • GDB
    • GeoTIFF
    • INTERLIS
    • SERVICE
    • renewable-energy-source
    • wind-power
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure