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Vegetation height model 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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Identification info
- Alternate title
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Vegetation height model NFI
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-10-31
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-10-31
- Citation identifier
- ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell
Citation identifier
- Collective title
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Vegetation height model NFI
- 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
Address
- Website
- https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/de/home/amt/abteilungen-sektionen/abteilung-wald.html ( WWW:LINK )
- Role
- Owner
- Last Name
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BAFU Wald
- Organisation Acronym
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FOEN
Point of contact
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- Position name
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Info WSL
- Voice
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+41 44 739 21 11
Address
- Role
- Owner
- Organisation Acronym
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WSL
Point of contact
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- Position name
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Remote Sensing
- Voice
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+41 44 739 21 11
Address
- Website
- https://www.wsl.ch/en/about-wsl/organisation/research-units/land-change-science/remote-sensing/ ( WWW:LINK )
- Role
- Point of contact
- Organisation Acronym
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WSL
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
Appraisal AAP
- Duration of conservation
- 100
- Appraisal of archival value
- of archival value
- Reason for archiving value
- Evidence of business practice
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geocat.ch
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FISE (Forest Information System for Europe)
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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official geodata
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opendata.swiss
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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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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- 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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- G Forest, Flora, Fauna
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Basic geodata identifier
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164.19
- Basic geodata identifier type
- Federal
- Distribution format
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GeoTIFF (GEOTIFF)
()
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GeoTIFF (GEOTIFF)
()
Distributor 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
Address
- Website
- https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/de/home/amt/abteilungen-sektionen/abteilung-wald.html ( WWW:LINK )
- Role
- Distributor
- Last Name
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BAFU Wald
- Organisation Acronym
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FOEN
- OnLine resource
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Preview map.geo.admin.ch
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MAP:Preview
)
Preview map.geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell
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OGC:WMTS
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WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Vegetation height model NFI"
- OnLine resource
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Vegetation Height Model NFI
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WWW:LINK
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Link to description
- OnLine resource
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STAC Browser
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
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Link for download
- OnLine resource
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Link to description
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WWW:LINK
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Link to description
- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell
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OGC:WMS
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Vegetationshöhe LFI
- OnLine resource
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Link to portal
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CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal
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Link to portal
- OnLine resource
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RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
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ESRI:REST
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RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-04-29T11:03:36.519Z
- Metadata standard name
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GM03 2+
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
Metadata author
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
- Website
- https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/de/home/amt/abteilungen-sektionen/abteilung-wald.html ( WWW:LINK )
- Role
- Point of contact
- Last Name
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BAFU Wald
- Organisation Acronym
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FOEN
