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Lothar 1999 storm damage inventory
The aim of the federal government’s “Lothar” storm damage inventory was to produce a complete and uniform database of total and partial damage to forests throughout Switzerland. The following criteria and conditions were defined for this purpose: Area of total damage: Destroyed forest with a maximum degree of vegetation cover of the residual stand of <= 0.2 (20%), regardless of the previous vegetation cover of the forest. Area of partial damage: Partially destroyed forest with a residual stand in the upper layer and a degree of vegetation cover between 0.2 and 0.6; areas with a degree of vegetation cover >= 0.6 no longer qualify as areas of storm damage. Examples of delimitation problems relating to areas of total and partial damage are presented in chapter 8 (red boundaries on slides), together with the corresponding solutions. Areas of forest which had a low degree of vegetation cover before the occurrence of storm damage (e.g. woodlands with loose stands) represent particularly difficult challenges in terms of aerial photo interpretation. The examples shown in chapter 7.5 served as aids for estimating degrees of cover. Minimal areas: 1 hectare per recorded area. A template (slide) for various aerial image scales was used for verifying the elimination of stands. Collective forest areas: If areas of different types of damage existed, the entire area had to exceed 1 hectare. In some cases, a partial area may be less than 1 hectare.
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- Alternate title
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Lothar storm damage
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-01-19
- Citation identifier
- ch.bafu.waldschadenflaechen-lothar
Citation identifier
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Forest Division, Federal Office of the Environment
- Voice
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+41 58 464 78 64
- Facsimile
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+41 58 464 78 66
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- Protocol
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WWW:LINK
- Role
- Point of contact
- Last Name
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BAFU Wald
- Organisation Acronym
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FOEN
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GEMET
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storm damage
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wood
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opendata.swiss
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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 OPEN: Open use.
- Denominator
- 25000
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- F Geology, Soils, Natural Hazards
- F3 Natural Hazards
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- Description
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Switzerland
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OGC Geopackage (GPKG)
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OGC Geopackage (GPKG)
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- OnLine resource
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Preview map.geo.admin.ch
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MAP:Preview
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Preview map.geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.waldschadenflaechen-lothar
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OGC:WMTS
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WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Lothar storm damage"
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ch.bafu.waldschadenflaechen-lothar
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OGC:WMS
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WMS-FSDI service, layer "Lothar storm damage"
- OnLine resource
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Sturmschadeninventar LOTHAR 1999
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WWW:LINK
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Link to description
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STAC Browser
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
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Download server from geo.admin.ch
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Link to portal
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CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal
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Link to portal
- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-12T06:45:01.013Z
- Metadata standard name
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GM03 2+
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
Metadata author
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Forest Division, Federal Office of the Environment
- Voice
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+41 58 464 78 64
- Facsimile
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+41 58 464 78 66
Address
- Protocol
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WWW:LINK
- Role
- Point of contact
- Last Name
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BAFU Wald
- Organisation Acronym
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FOEN
