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Vegetation height model Sentinel NFI
Countrywide vegetation height models (VHM) were generated for Switzerland based on Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery and the digital terrain model (DTM) swissALTI3D from the Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo. A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model was trained to estimate the maximum vegetation height at the spatial resolution of the Sentinel-2 pixel of 10 m. Vegetation heights from the spatially higher-resolved VHM Lidar NFI were used as reference data for the CNN training. Within the framework of the Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI), the VHMs were modelled annually based on available Sentinel-2 imagery from May – September of the respective year. Further details on the creation of the VHM Sentinel NFI can be found in the paper Jiang et al. (2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2023.100099). Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Vegetation height model Sentinel NFI
- Date (Revision)
- 2026-03-05
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-10-31
- Identifier
- ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_sentinel
- 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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FISE (Forest Information System for Europe)
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opendata.swiss
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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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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ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_sentinel
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Vegetation height model Sentinel NFI"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_sentinel
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Vegetation height model Sentinel NFI"
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- OnLine resource
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Vorschau map.geo.admin.ch
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- OnLine resource
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Vegetation Height Model NFI
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- OnLine resource
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STAC Browser
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- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- da98f1ff-d427-4e8f-b4fc-691e6ff31ed0
- 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/da98f1ff-d427-4e8f-b4fc-691e6ff31ed0
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-03-06T09:44:51.756Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-04-13T09:21:01.139464Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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eCH-0271
