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Relief shading of vegetation height model NFI
Information on 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.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Surface model NFI
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-10-31
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-10-31
- Citation identifier
- ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_relief
Citation identifier
- Collective title
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Relief shading of vegetation height model NFI
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Forest Division, Federal Office of the Environment
Owner Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Owner Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
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geocat.ch
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opendata.swiss
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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official geodata
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FISE (Forest Information System for Europe)
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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GEMET
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forest resource
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wood
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geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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- 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
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- Biota
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Distribution format
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Name Version GeoTIFF (GEOTIFF)
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name MAP:Preview
https://map.geo.admin.ch/?layers=ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_relief Preview map.geo.admin.ch
OGC:WMTS
https://wmts.geo.admin.ch/EPSG/3857/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml?lang=de ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_relief
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK
https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/hillshade-for-vegetation-height-model-nfi Hillshade for Vegetation Height Model NFI
OGC:WMS
https://wms.geo.admin.ch/?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&lang=de ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_relief
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
https://data.geo.admin.ch/browser/index.html#/collections/ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_relief STAC Browser
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal
https://map.bafu.admin.ch ESRI:REST
https://api3.geo.admin.ch/rest/services/api/MapServer/ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_relief RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
Metadata
- File identifier
- 55eb4917-ce3b-423b-873f-2c8efb1c6762 XML
- Metadata language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-04-29T11:09:37.313Z
- Metadata standard name
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GM03 2+
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
Metadata author
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French UTF8 Italian UTF8 English UTF8 Romansh UTF8 German UTF8
