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FOEN basic monitoring network for surfaces water
The data show the locations of the stations in the basic monitoring network of the Hydrology Division of the FOEN. It includes all stations currently listed on the FOEN’s home page. The basic monitoring network now comprises a total of 260 surface water gauging stations. In addition to lake water levels, river discharge is measured at 200 sites. 90% of all stations have automatic remote retrieval facilities.
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
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Hydrological gauging stations
- Date (Revision)
- 2019-12-31T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- ch.bafu.hydrologie-hydromessstationen
Citation identifier
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Federal Office for the Environment / Hydrology Division
- Voice
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+41 58 464 71 87
- Facsimile
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+41 58 464 76 81
Address
- City
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Bern
- Postal code
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3003
- Country
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CH
- Electronic mail address
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hydrologie@bafu.adm hydrologie@bafu.admin.ch
- Protocol
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WWW:LINK
- Role
- Point of contact
- Last Name
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BAFU Hydrologie
- Organisation Acronym
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FOEN
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
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GEMET
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environment
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental monitoring facilities
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geocat.ch
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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.
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Topic category
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- I Inland Waters
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Distribution format
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ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
()
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ESRI File Geodatabase FileGDB (GDB)
()
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ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
()
- 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.hydrologie-hydromessstationen
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OGC:WMS
)
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Hydrological gauging stations"
- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.hydrologie-hydromessstationen
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OGC:WMTS
)
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Hydrological gauging stations"
- OnLine resource
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Basic monitoring network: water levels and discharge in surface waters
(
WWW:LINK
)
Link to description
- OnLine resource
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STAC Browser
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
)
Download server from geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
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Discharge and water level
(
CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal
)
Link to portal
- OnLine resource
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RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
(
ESRI:REST
)
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-07-17T11:33:18.041Z
- 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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Federal Office for the Environment / Hydrology Division
- Voice
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+41 58 464 71 87
- Facsimile
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+41 58 464 76 81
Address
- City
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Bern
- Postal code
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3003
- Country
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CH
- Electronic mail address
-
hydrologie@bafu.adm hydrologie@bafu.admin.ch
- Protocol
-
WWW:LINK
- Role
- Point of contact
- Last Name
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BAFU Hydrologie
- Organisation Acronym
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FOEN
