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6 datasets found

  • Automatic Classification of Avalanches

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the classification and localization results obtained during the automatic classification of avalanches during the winter season 2017.

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • avalanche
    • localization
    • machine-learning
    • monitoring
    • seismic
  • 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
  • Data-set for prediction of natural dry-snow avalanche activity and avalanche size using physics-based snowpack simulations

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data set contained in this repository was used in the analysis by Mayer et al. (2023): Mayer, S. I., Techel, F., Schweizer, J., and van Herwijnen, A.: Prediction of natural...

    Last updated: August 2, 2023

    • XLS
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-size
    • machine-learning
    • natural-avalanches
    • snowpack-model
  • High resolution land use forecasts for Switzerland in the 21st century

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We present forecasts of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change for Switzerland for three time-steps in the 21st century under the representative concentration pathways 4.5 and 8.5, and...

    Last updated: March 27, 2024

    • ZIP
    • land-cover
    • land-use
    • landscape
    • landscape-change
    • machine-learning
    • modelling
  • Evaluating the predictive performance of human avalanche forecasts and model predictions in Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set was used in the analysis by Techel et al. **Can model-based avalanche forecasts match the discriminatory skill of human danger level forecasts? A comparison from...

    Last updated: June 30, 2025

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • avalanche-forecast
    • avalanche-release-probability
    • forecast-models
    • machine-learning
    • spatial-modelling
  • Distributed Acoustic Sensing Brienz

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), radar detection data used for training and result analysis in the GRL paper titled `Automatic Monitoring of Rock-Slope...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • early-warning
    • landslide
    • machine-learning
    • natural-hazard
    • rockfall
    • seismic