swissTLMRegio Landcover
The topic Landcover describes the topographic land cover. It consists of one feature class. The polygons build up a surface network, where gaps and overlays (according to the overlay matr...
swissTLMRegio Miscellaneous
The topic Miscellaneous contains a selection of prominent single point and line features and elevation points. It consists of sixfeature classes.
swissTLMRegio Names
The topic Names of the product swissTLMRegio is comprised of the two Feature Classes TLMRegio_NamedLocation and TLMRegio_NamedLocation_PLY which contains names of cities, places, peaks an...
swissTLMRegio Protected Areas
Territorial boundaries: Boundaries of protected areas in Switzerland and in neighbouring countries.
Areas of silver fir
The map shows the areas of silver fir occurrence. In the main area, fir is naturally involved to a considerable extent in the stand development in the upper montane and high-montane veget...
Thermal waters
This dataset contains an overview of groundwater in Switzerland that have been heated by geothermal energy. The increased temperature of thermal groundwater results from the interaction w...
Thermal continentality at 1000 m a.s.l. in the year, period 1981-2010
The thermal continentality in °C was calculated as the difference between the highest and lowest value of the daily variation of the temperature of the year in the period under investigat...
Thermal continentality at 1000 m a.s.l. in July, period 1981-2010
The thermal continentality in °C was calculated as the difference between the highest and lowest value of the daily variation of the temperature of July in the period under investigation ...
Thermal networks: demand from industry
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 hectare are...
Thermal networks: demand from residential and commercial buildings
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 generated fro...
Thermal networks (local heating, district heating, district cooling)
Thermal networks – including district heating-, local heating- or district cooling networks – are systems that provide a number of separate buildings with thermal energy. They supply heat...
Potential heat recovery from wastewater treatment plants
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) treat and purify wastewater. Wastewater is water that has been polluted through activities such as cooking, doing laundry or showering and then transpo...
Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies 2 km²
The data set ‹sub-basins 2 km²› is the central element of the geodata set. It is made up of a comprehensive mosaic of over 22,000 topographically defined sub-basin areas that can be quick...
Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies 40 km²
The "40 km² catchment areas" data set is one of four possible aggregation levels for the "Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies" geodata set. It consists of a comprehensive m...
Swiss water topographical catchment areas: Main river section
The data set “Main river section” is part of the geo dataset “Swiss water topographical catchment areas”. The main river in a catchment area is the body of water that leaves the catchme...
Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies: Area outlets
The "Area outlets" data set is part of the "Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies" geodata set. It consists of point objects that represent the area outlets for a possible to...
Topographical Map (Dufour Map)
The first official map of Switzerland. First issued between 1844 and 1864, updated up to 1939. 25 sheets. Map format: 70 x 48 cm = 3360 km2. Representation of the terrain: Shaded hachures...
Total Intensity Map of Switzerland 1:500000
Geomagnetic maps are the result of measurements of total intensity, declination and inclination. The geomagnetic field is defined by a vector, which isrepresented in terms of its directio...
Tranquillity Areas
Based on the "Tranquillity Map of the Swiss Plateau" and its calculated "tranquillity" values, certain recreational areas were derived. For this purpose, areas that did not fall below a c...
Tranquillity Map
The "Tranquillity Map of the Swiss Plateau" illustrates where areas of near-natural character and low noise pollution still exist near large settlements within the Swiss Plateau. These ar...
River Typology for Switzerland
The typology of rivers groups the diversity of Swiss rivers according to abiotic, physiographic criteria, not considering anthropogenic impacts. They are a basis for assessment of the eco...
Ramsar sites in Switzerland
To protect wetlands, particularly as habitats for waterbirds and waders, a convention of international importance was signed in 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar. Switzerland ratified th...
Exceedance of critical loads for nitrogen
Excessive deposition of reactive nitrogen compounds (NO₂, NO₃⁻, HNO₃, NH₃, NH₄⁺) causes eutrophication (over-fertilisation) of sensitive ecosystems, contributes to soil acidification and ...
Aquaprotect” areas of flooding: 100-year recurrence period
The areas of flooding included in “Aquaprotect” take the form of a rough overview (prepared with the aid of basic methods) of areas of Switzerland that are susceptible to damage caused by...