269 datasets found

Sustainable potential of woody biomass resources for bioenergy in Switzerland...

Energy, Environment

Biomass is a renewable resource for energy which can be transformed into several forms of energy: heat, electricity, biogas or liquid fuels. Woody types of biomass were investig...

Sustainable potential of non-woody biomass resources for bioenergy in Switzer...

Energy, Environment

Biomass is a renewable resource for energy which can be transformed into several forms of energy: heat, electricity, biogas or liquid fuels. Non-woody types of biomass were inve...

Waste incineration plants (MWI)

Energy, Environment

Waste incineration is the burning of combustible waste components to reduce the volume of the waste while using the energy it contains.In 2017, Switzerland had 30 municipal wast...

Potential use of lakes and rivers for heat extraction and heat discharge

Energy, Environment

Lakes and rivers provide a great yet largely untapped source of thermal energy. In Switzerland, this renewable source of energy source could be used for heating (heat extraction...

Public energy advice services

Energy, Environment

There is a wide variety of public energy advice services available in Switzerland. They offer impartial advice (neutral relative to products and companies) to the public in gene...

Nuclear Power Plants

Energy, Environment

Nuclear power plants are facilities for the commercial generation of electrical power from controlled nuclear fission. The four Swiss nuclear power plants have a total output of...

Switzerland During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 1:500000

Regions and cities, Environment

The map (GK500-LGM) shows the maximum extent of glaciation in Switzerland at the height of the last Ice Age around 24,000 years ago. It presents the latest results of current re...

Inclination Map of Switzerland 1:500000

Geomagnetic maps are the result of measurements of total intensity, declination and inclination. The inclination is the angle formed by the orientation of the magnetic field rel...

Lithological-petrographic map of Switzerland – Classification of rocks 1:500000

The 1:500,000 geotechnical map (GK500) of the Georesources Switzerland Group shows the subsurface strata classified according to lithological-petrographic criteria. The legend i...

Switzerland During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 1:500000 (vector map)

The map (GK500-LGM) shows the maximum extent of glaciation in Switzerland at the height of the last Ice Age around 24,000 years ago. It presents the latest results of current re...

Image strips swisstopo

In context of the update cycle of the national maps and the production of the orthoimage mosaic SWISSIMAGE, swisstopo records the whole area of Switzerland with aerial image str...

Official index of cities and towns including postal codes and perimeter

In Article 24 of the regulations governing geographic names (GeoNV), the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) is commissioned to establish, administer and publish the new of...

swissBOUNDARIES3D

swissBOUNDARIES3D contains all administrative units and national boundaries of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein in vector form. The product is based on an optim...

swissTLMRegio Transportation road network

The topic Transportation contains different features connected with traffic (road, railway, airports, car-ferry, ...). It consists of 12 feature classes and 3 tables. The lines ...

swissTLMRegio Names

The topic Names is comprised of the two Feature Classes NamedLocation and TLMRegio_NamedLocation_PLY which contains names of municipalities, places, peaks and numerous other imp...

swissALTI3D monodirectional Hillshade

The hillshade is derived from the digital elevation model swissALTI3D. It illustrates the surface relief of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein. A hillshade is der...

swissNAMES3D geographical names of the national Survey

swissNAMES3D is the most comprehensive collection of geographical names for Switzerland and Liechtenstein. swissNAMES3D contains over 400,000 georeferenced entries divided in di...

Cadastral Surveying (OpenData)

Die amtliche Vermessung (AV) beschreibt die Lage, die Form und den Inhalt eines Grundstückes. Die digitalen AV-Daten sind in mehreren thematischen Informationsebenen gegliedert,...

SWISSIMAGE 10 cm, digital orthophotomosaic of Switzerland

The orthophoto mosaic SWISSIMAGE 10 cm is a composition of new digital color aerial photographs over the whole of Switzerland with a ground resolution of 10 cm in the plain area...

swissSURFACE3D

swissSURFACE3D models all natural and man-made objects of the surface of Switzerland in the form of a classified point cloud. These high-accuracy and high spatial density data a...

swissTLMRegio Protected Areas

Territorial boundaries: Boundaries of protected areas in Switzerland and in neighbouring countries.

swissTLMRegio "Miscellaneous"

The topic Miscellaneous contains a selection of prominent single point and line features and elevation points. It consists of sixfeature classes.

swissTLMRegio Transportation public transport

The topic Transportation contains different features connected with traffic (road, railway, airports, car-ferry, ...). It consists of 12 feature classes and 3 tables. The lines ...

Administrative units Switzerland - INSPIRE

Administrative units is based on the data set swissBOUNDARIES3D by swisstopo. It contains all administrative units and national boundaries of Switzerland and the Principality of...

Gravimetric Map of Switzerland (Isostatic Anomalies) 1:500000

Isostatic anomalies can be deduced using the Pratt or Airy hypothesis. These anomalies correspond to the static flotation of the Earth’s crust in the upper mantle. The deviation...