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Vegetation height model Lidar NFI

Information on the vegetation height is determined using remote sensing methods with active and passive sensors. LiDAR is an active sensor. An optical sensor, for example an aerial camera, is a passive sensor. LiDAR is incorporated in Switzerland on a regional, cantonal and national level. Stereo aerial photos are regularly recorded on a national level in a three year cycle. Regular 3D data sets and digital surface models (DSM) with a high resolution are created from this predictable core data from swisstopo within the framework of the National Forest Inventory (NFI). From the difference between the DSM and the digital terrain model by swisstopo (swissAlti3D), a normalised digital surface model (nDSM) is calculated. Buildings are eliminated using a combination of the ground areas of the swisstopo topographic landscape model (TLM) and spectral information from the stereo aerial photos. The end result is a model of vegetation height (vegetation height model VHM) in Switzerland.

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Vegetation height model Lidar NFI

Date (Revision)
2024-10-31
Date (Creation)
2016-10-31
Citation identifier
ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_lidar

Citation identifier

No information provided.
Collective title

Vegetation height model NFI

Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Forest Division, Federal Office of the Environment

wald@bafu.admin.ch

Owner

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL

wslinfo@wsl.ch

Owner

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL

remotesensing@wsl.ch

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually

geocat.ch

  • Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation

  • official geodata

  • opendata.swiss

  • FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

  • FISE (Forest Information System for Europe)

GEMET

  • wood

  • forest resource

geocat.ch

  • FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
Denominator
25000
Language
Deutsch
Character set
8859 Part 1
Topic category
  • Biota

Extent

Description

Switzerland

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Reference system identifier
EPSG:2056
Geometric object type
Surface
Distribution format
Name Version

GeoTIFF (GEOTIFF)

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Forest Division, Federal Office of the Environment

wald@bafu.admin.ch

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:WMS

https://wms.geo.admin.ch/?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&lang=de

ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_lidar

OGC:WMTS

https://wmts.geo.admin.ch/EPSG/3857/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml?lang=de

ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_lidar

MAP:Preview

https://map.geo.admin.ch/?layers=ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_lidar

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OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK

https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/vegetation-height-model-nfi

Vegetation Height Model NFI

WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL

https://data.geo.admin.ch/browser/index.html#/collections/ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_lidar

STAC Browser

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal

https://map.bafu.admin.ch

Metadata

File identifier
2cabe809-dee5-4939-9d6d-e06e313efbc7 XML
Metadata language
Deutsch
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-04-30T11:12:14.455Z
Metadata standard name

GM03 2+

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

No information provided.
Other language
Language Character encoding
French UTF8
Italian UTF8
English UTF8
Romansh UTF8
German UTF8
 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

GEMET

forest resource wood
geocat.ch

Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation FISE (Forest Information System for Europe) FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure official geodata opendata.swiss


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