geocat.ch
SWISSIMAGE Background: The Digital Orthophotomosaic of Switzerland
The Orthophotomosaic SWISSIMAGE (Background) is a composition of digital color aerial images of Switzerland and surroundings. The orthophotos of the neighboring countries come from SPOT 5 satellite images (Airbus Defence and Space) taken in 2004 and 2005 with a ground resolution of 5 m. An orthophoto is an aerial image in which the distortions created by the camera and the relief are corrected. The layer is used as base map in the swiss federal geoportal. It is also available as WMS and WMTS geoservices. Once a year, a copy of the WMTS tile pyramid is made available for download in JPEG format and in the Web Mercator coordinate system (EPSG:3857) up to zoom level/tile matrix 18 (0.5 m resolution).
Simple
- Alternate title
-
SWISSIMAGE Background
- Date (Creation)
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00
- Identifier
- ch.swisstopo.swissimage
- Purpose
-
Referenzdaten
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Owner
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 0.1 m
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 0.25 m
- Topic category
-
- A Imagery base maps earth cover
Extent
Extent
- Description
-
swissimage
- Geographic identifier
- swissimage
))
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
- User defined maintenance frequency
-
P3Y0M0DT0H0M0S
- Duration of Conservation
- 275
- Appraisal of Archival Value
- A
- Reason for Archiving Value
- Evidence of business practice
Resource format
- Title
-
JPEG (JPG)
- Date
- geocat.ch
-
-
Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
-
official geodata
-
FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
-
digital color orthophoto mosaic
-
orthophoto
-
- GEMET
-
-
aerial photograph
-
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
-
-
Orthoimagery
-
Associated resource
- Title
-
Orthofotos (Landesvermessung)
- Association Type
- Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Subtopic Category
- A3 Aerial and Satellite Imagery
- Basic Geodata
- true
- Basic Geodata ID
-
35.1
- Basic Geodata Legal Level
- Federal
- Basic Geodata Type
- Reference Geodata
- Attribute description
- RGB-Farbwerte und Graustufen
- Distribution format
-
-
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
-
JPEG (JPG)
-
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
-
SWISSIMAGE
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
-
ch.swisstopo.swissimage
WMS-FSDI service, layer "SWISSIMAGE Background"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
-
ch.swisstopo.swissimage
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "SWISSIMAGE Background"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
-
Vorschau map.geo.admin.ch
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
-
STAC Browser
The uncompressed tar archive contains the WebMercator (EPSG:3857) WMTS pyramid up to a resolution of 0.5 m or zoom level/tile matrix 18.
- Statement
-
Based on the aerial images
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Number of dimensions
- 2
- Cell geometry
- Point
- Transformation parameter availability
- 0
- Check point availability
- 0
- Pixel orientation code
-
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:21781
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- b52cd8fc-bd4a-4984-b951-0fe9cae2493f
- 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
-
https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/b52cd8fc-bd4a-4984-b951-0fe9cae2493f
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-05-30T11:10:20Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-04-13T08:58:29.396197Z
Metadata standard
- Title
-
eCH-0271
