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6 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
  • Energy Cooperatives in Switzerland: Survey Results // Energiegenossenschaften in der Schweiz: Befragungsergebnisse

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Topic of Survey The data at hand on energy cooperatives in Switzerland were collected in 2016 as part of the project "Collective financing of renewable energy projects in...

    Last updated: March 1, 2023

    • PDF
    • CSV
    • SERVICE
    • community-energy
    • cooperatives
    • energy-cooperatives
    • renewable-energy
    • switzerland
  • Environmental DNA Freshwater Switzerland VaudCatchment Modipl 2020

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Catchment-based sampling of river eDNA integrates terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity of alpine landscapes

    From 22-Jun-2020 to 26-Jun-2020, we sampled five sites comprising one...

    Last updated: June 19, 2024

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    • edna
    • environmental-dna
    • freshwater
    • sper01
    • spermatophytes
    • switzerland
    • vert01
    • vertebrates
  • Replication files for "Integrating biodiversity: A longitudinal and cross-sectoral analysis of Swiss politics"

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    Education, culture and sport

    Introduction

    The ZIP file contains all data and code to replicate the analyses reported in the following paper.

    Reber, U., Fischer, M., Ingold, K., Kienast, F., Hersperger, A....

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • bgb
    • biodiversity
    • environmental--policy
    • policy-analysis
    • policy-documents
    • switzerland
    • text-corpus
  • Robot-aided measurement of insect diversity on vegetation using environmental DNA

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Traditional methods of biodiversity monitoring are often logistically challenging, time-consuming, require experienced experts on species identification and sometimes include...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

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    • drone
    • edna
    • ins16s
    • insect
    • minion
    • switzerland
  • Alpine3D simulations of future climate scenarios for Graubunden

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This is the simulation dataset from "Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland", M. Bavay, T. Grünewald, M. Lehning,...

    Last updated: November 5, 2025

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    • alpine3d-simulations
    • climate-change
    • graubunden
    • snow
    • switzerland