Landscape Change in Switzerland

The Swiss land use statistics not only generate statistical data, but they also document landscape changes. During the work on the land use statistics 2004/09 and 2013/18 aerial image were documented, georeferenced and recorded according to a separate nomenclature. These illustrate the landscape change in Switzerland over 33 years with four and over 24 years with three aerial views. The Federal Statistical Office is now making over 1500 image comparisons available to the general public on the Administration's Geoportal.With the 1979/85, 1992/97, 2004/09 and 2013/18 surveys, Switzerland's land use statistics provide results on the condition of and changes in settlement areas, forests, woodland, farmland, meadows, pastures, waters, glaciers and many other uses. They convey the changing picture of the mosaic of land cover and land use conditions throughout Switzerland, including its regional and local geographical differentiation.

Simple

Alternate title

Documentation of landscape change

Date (Creation)
2020-06-26
Identifier
ch.bfs.landschaftswandel

Purpose

Detailed survey of land use and land cover in Switzerland with the aim of documenting its condition and development periodically and in a statistically significant way.

Status
On going

Point of contact

Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Anton Beyeler
Espace de l'Europe 10
Neuchâtel
2010
CH
http://www.statistik.admin.ch/

Owner

Bundesamt für Statistik
Espace de l'Europe 10
Neuchâtel
2010
https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home.html
Hours of service

Mo-Fr: 10:00-11:30 + 14:00-16:00
Spatial representation type
Vector
Topic category
  • A Imagery base maps earth cover

Extent

Extent

Description

Switzerland

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note

The survey work for the land use statistics 2004/09 started in 2005 and was completed in 2013. An update based on aerial photographs from 2013-18 is currently in progress.

Maintenance and update frequency
userDefined
User defined maintenance frequency
P6Y0M0DT0H0M0S
Duration of Conservation
100
Appraisal of Archival Value
A
Reason for Archiving Value
Evidence of business practice
Comment on Archival Value

Datensatz hat insbesondere auch einen hohen wissenschafltichen Wert.

Resource format

Title

Portable Document Format (PDF)

Date
geocat.ch

  • official geodata

  • Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land cover

  • Land use

GEMET

  • aerial photograph

  • territory

  • photograph

  • vegetation

  • territorial policy

geocat.ch

  • FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

GEMET

  • landscape

geocat.ch

  • nature

Resource constraints

Other constraints

Commercial utilisation requires a written agreement and specific fees.

Associated resource

Title

Arealstatistik der Schweiz

Association Type
Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Français
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Italiano
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Supplemental Information

In GEOSTAT, original results for all recent land use statistics including metadata of all image documentation are managed in relational databases in which each sample point (identical for each survey date) represents a data record. For the dissemination, structured text files (normal case), as well as GIS-compatible vector (point data) or raster data (GRID, GeoTIFF) can be generated if required

Subtopic Category
A2 Land Cover, Land Use
Subtopic Category
A1 Base Maps, Landscape Models
Basic Geodata
true
Basic Geodata ID

12.3

Basic Geodata Legal Level
Federal
Distribution format

  • TEXT, semicolon separated (CSV)

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Vorschau map.geo.admin.ch

Preview map.geo.admin.ch

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

ch.bfs.landschaftswandel

WMS-FSDI service, layer "Documentation of landscape change"

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

ch.bfs.landschaftswandel

WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Documentation of landscape change"

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Fachportal

Thematic information

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

RESTful API von geo.admin.ch

RESTful API from geo.admin.ch

Reference system identifier
CH1903+

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note

Nachführung erfolgt, wenn Dokumentation fehlerhaft oder verbesserungsbedürftig.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
826921fb-2bf7-44af-a71a-af56bda3dd6d

Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Français
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Italiano
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Rumantsch
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Romain Douard (Head GEOSTAT)
Espace de l'Europe 10
Neuchâtel
2010
CH
http://www.statistik.admin.ch/

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/826921fb-2bf7-44af-a71a-af56bda3dd6d

Date info (Creation)
2019-07-09T11:44:10Z
Date info (Revision)
2026-04-13T09:36:15.518854Z

Metadata standard

Title

eCH-0271

 
 

Spatial extent

Keywords

GEMET

aerial photograph landscape photograph territorial policy territory vegetation
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Land cover Land use
geocat.ch

Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure nature official geodata


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