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Vegetation height model NFI
Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Switzerland based on stereo aerial images, acquired by the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo.
From the ADS-80/100 sensor data, first a digital surface model (DSM) with a spatial resolution of 1 × 1 m is processed. This DSM is then normalized using the digital terrain model (DTM) swissALTI3D (swisstopo). Buildings and other artificial objects are masked out from the normalized DSM (nDSM) using information from the topographic landscape model - TLM (swisstopo) to obtain the actual vegetation height model (VHM). These VHMs are produced in the framework of the Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI). Each year about 1/6 of Switzerland's surface is updated using the leaf-on aerial images acquired by swisstopo (May - October). Further information on the creation of the VHM NFI can be found in the paper Ginzler and Hobi (2015, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70404343).
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Vegetation height model NFI
- Date (Revision)
- 2026-03-05
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-10-31
- Identifier
- ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell
- Status
- Completed
Owner
Owner
Point of contact
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 25000
- Topic category
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- G Biota
Extent
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Duration of Conservation
- 100
- Appraisal of Archival Value
- A
- Reason for Archiving Value
- Evidence of business practice
- geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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official geodata
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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opendata.swiss
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FISE (Forest Information System for Europe)
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- GEMET
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wood
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forest resource
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- geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
Associated resource
- Title
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Vegetation height model NFI
- Association Type
- Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- 8859 Part 1
- Basic Geodata
- true
- Basic Geodata ID
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164.19
- Basic Geodata Legal Level
- Federal
- Distribution format
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GeoTIFF (GEOTIFF)
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Distributor
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- OnLine resource
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Vorschau map.geo.admin.ch
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ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Vegetation height model NFI"
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Vegetation Height Model NFI
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STAC Browser
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- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell
Vegetationshöhe LFI
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- OnLine resource
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RESTful API von geo.admin.ch
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 8b7c23ef-88a4-47d6-87dc-6f5b5d91928c
- 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
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/8b7c23ef-88a4-47d6-87dc-6f5b5d91928c
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-01-25T14:02:38Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-06-01T14:00:34.094255Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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eCH-0271
