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148 datasets found

  • Forest Canopy Layer Code

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    R script for large-scale mapping of forest canopy layering. The approach combines tree-based and area-based methods, using airborne laser scanning point clouds together with...

    Last updated: November 11, 2025

    • ZIP
    • forest
    • forest-management
    • itd
    • lidar
    • mountain-forest
    • protective-forest
    • vhm
  • Case study applications demonstrating the use and potential of the TreeMig framework v1

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The TreeMig framework allows for an easy application of the forest landscape model TreeMig for simulating forest dynamics in space under changing environmental and land use...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

    • PDF
    • ZIP
    • SERVICE
    • bioclimatic-variables
    • climate-change
    • example-applications
    • forest
    • forest-dynamics
    • forest-management
    • land-use
    • r-package
    • spatial-modelling
    • species-migration
    • treemig
  • Capillary rise rise experiments in snow using neutron radiography

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset consists of data related to capillary rise experiments performed with neutron radiography. There are 4 videos of capillary rise experiments as well as the files used...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • measurements
    • pore-water
    • snow
    • soil
    • transport
    • water
  • Soil measurements of Seewer Berg and Davos

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains measured values of soil liquid water content, matric potential, and soil texture of 40 soil samples in Davos, Switzerland. The measurements were used for...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

    • TXT
    • CSV
    • ZIP
    • alpine
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • lwc
    • matric-potential
    • measurements
    • soil
    • soil-classification
    • soil-texture
  • Phytodiversity is associated with habitat heterogeneity from Eurasia to Hengduan

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    Education, culture and sport

    This research data is used to re includes 1 km resolution seed plant species range maps for the Hengduan mountain region (southwest China), elevation information for each species,...

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • CSV
    • habitat-heterogeneity
    • hengduan-mountains
    • hypervolume
    • model-residuals
    • phytodiversity
  • Dataset for "Sorting and Surging 3D LiDAR and Pulse-Doppler Radar Analysis of a Natural Debris Flow"

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    Education, culture and sport

    LiDAR and PD radar data as well as camera videos of the 30 June 2022 debris flow at the Illgraben (Switzerland).

    Last updated: November 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • 3d-lidar
    • analysis
    • debris-flow
    • illgraben
    • pulse-doppler
    • radar
  • Individual Detected Trees

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset provides individual detected trees for selected Swiss Cantons (Appenzell Outer-Rhodes - AR, Grisons - GR, Nidwald - NW, Obwald - OW and St. Gall - SG), including the...

    Last updated: November 14, 2025

    • ZIP
    • development-stage
    • forest-management
    • forest-structure
    • itd
    • mountain-forest
    • nfi
  • Swiss electricity system modeling -- HV grid - hydropower topology and inflows - renewable productions - past and forecast meteorological data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains several useful components for Swiss Electricity system modeling:

    1. High-voltage Swiss grid: 2019 snapshot of the high-voltage (>150kV) grid composed...

    Last updated: November 20, 2025

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • electricity-grid
    • forecast-models
    • hydropower
    • meteorological-data
    • renewable-energy
    • reservoir-inflow
    • solar-irradiance