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154 datasets found

  • Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014

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    Education, culture and sport

    In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • field-test
    • trajectory
    • field-tests
    • field-data
    • natural-hazards
    • experiments
    • rockfall
    • experiment
    • mass-movements
  • Long-term meteorological and snow station at 2090 m a.s.l., Stillberg, Davos, Switzerland (1975 - present)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Important This EnviDat entry is outdated. The most recent, usable version of the data can be found under the new EnviDat entry "Long-term meteorological station Stillberg, Davos,...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • CSV
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    • atmospheric-conditions
    • wind
    • temperature-profiles
    • precipitation
    • radiation
  • Environmental DNA Marine France Evhoe 2021

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    Education, culture and sport

    Environmental DNA complements scientific trawling in surveys of marine fish biodiversity (Dataset 2021) At the end of October and the beginning of November 2021, we selected 18...

    Last updated: July 10, 2025

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    • actinopterygii
    • bay-biscay
    • metabarcoding
    • atlantic-region
    • teleo
    • chondrichthyes
    • edna
    • fish-composition
  • Vertebrate and plant taxa recovered from 10 catchments in Vaud using an eDNA-metabarcoding approach

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the results of a five-day field excursion which the extent to which eDNA sampling can capture the diversity of a region with highly heterogeneous habitat...

    Last updated: May 26, 2025

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    • environmental-dna
    • biodiversity-assessment
    • spatial-ecology
    • biomonitoring
    • dna-metabarcoding
  • Swiss FluxNet Site LĂ€geren

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    Education, culture and sport

    The Swiss FluxNet Site LĂ€geren is a managed mixed deciduous mountain forest located on the steep LĂ€geren mountain (NW of Zurich, Swiss Plateau). The forest is highly diverse,...

    Last updated: March 25, 2025

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    • swiss-forest-lab
    • swiss-fluxnet
    • flux
    • greenhouse-gas
    • forest
    • meteorological-measurements
    • eddy-covariance
  • Environmental DNA Marine France LaPerouse 2019

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    Fish environmental DNA data set collected in the shallow seamount of La Pérouse located between Madagascar and Réunion Island

    In 2019, we sampled the shallow seamount of La...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

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    • edna
    • indian-ocean
    • teleo
    • laperouse
    • environmental-dna
    • marine
    • coral-reef
    • fish-composition
  • IRKIS Soil moisture measurements Davos

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    Education, culture and sport

    Meteorological and soil moisture measurements from soil moisture stations installed from October 2010 - October 2013 in the area surrounding Davos, in particular in the Dischma...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

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    • dischma-catchment
    • davos
    • meteo-station
    • meteorological-measurements
    • soil-moisture
  • Data reliability study: avalanche size estimates and outlines

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the data used and collected to investigate the reliability of avalanche size estimates and avalanche outlines (see related publications). Namely this is

    ...

    Last updated: July 31, 2025

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    • remote-sensing
    • avalanche-size-estimation
    • avalanche-mapping
    • avalanche
    • reliability
  • Automatic Classification of Avalanches

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    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the classification and localization results obtained during the automatic classification of avalanches during the winter season 2017.

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • avalanche
    • seismic
    • localization
    • monitoring
    • machine-learning
  • Cropland and grassland map of Switzerland based on Sentinel-2 data

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    Education, culture and sport

    We developed a map of cropland and grassland allocation for Switzerland based on several indices dominantly derived from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery captured over multiple growing...

    Last updated: March 29, 2021

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    • GeoTIFF
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    • habitat
    • phenology
    • machine-learning
    • cropland
    • agriculture
    • grassland
    • sentinel-2
    • vegetation-indices
    • remote-sensing
    • switzerland
  • Carabid beetles in forests

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    Education, culture and sport

    Carabidae data from all historic up to the recent projects (21.10.2019) of WSL, collected with various methods in forests of different types.

    Version 2 ('FIDO_global_extract...

    Last updated: February 12, 2025

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    • running-beetles
    • carabidae
    • trapping
    • insects
    • coleoptera
    • arthropoda
    • forest
  • Flowering Plants (Angiospermae) in Urban Green Areas in five European Cities

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    Education, culture and sport

    Data of a survey of flowering plants in 80 sites in five European cities and urban agglomerations (Antwerp, Belgium; greater Paris, France; Poznan, Poland; Tartu, Estonia; and...

    Last updated: February 13, 2023

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    • floral-inventories
    • zurich
    • antwerp
    • paris
    • tartu
    • angiospermae
    • urban
    • plants
    • poznan
    • floral-resources
  • Seilaplan Tutorial: Load WMS layers as background maps

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    Education, culture and sport

    In order to digitally plan a cable line using the QGIS plugin ‘Seilaplan’, maps with various background information are helpful. In this tutorial we show you how to obtain maps...

    Last updated: August 30, 2022

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    • open-source
    • wms-data
    • digital-planning
    • geoinformation-system
    • qgis-plugin
    • cable-yarding
    • seilaplan
    • swiss-geodata
    • digital-elevation-model
  • Data of national dishes, their similarity and trade flows

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data described in this article were collected daily over the period 4 June 2018 to 23 August 2018 and contains information of several data sources. The database includes...

    Last updated: April 8, 2025

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    • food-taste-similarity
    • latent-semantic-analysis
    • agro-food-trade
    • food-preferences
    • national-dishes
  • Short-term Drainage Density Dynamics Dataset for the Erlenbach Catchment

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    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset contains time series of water levels, precipitation measured in the two sub-catchments of the Erlenbach catchment and its vicinity during summer and autumn 2021, as...

    Last updated: October 30, 2024

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    • XLS
    • drainage
    • dynamics
    • data
    • channel
    • dataset
    • erlenbach
    • precipitation
    • drainage-network
    • catchment-data
    • catchment
    • water-level
  • lsUDPS Large-scale urban development projects in European urban regions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Table of Content: 1. General context of the data set "lsUDPs" ; 2. Background and aims of the study using the data set lsUDPs; 3. The data set lsUDPs: 3.1 Selection of cases and...

    Last updated: March 15, 2022

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    • land-use-change
    • urban-transformations
    • spatial-planning
    • land-use-transformations
    • strategic-projects
    • large-scale-urban-development-projects
    • strategic-spatial-planning
    • europe
  • Planning intentions in strategic plans of European urban regions

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the report titled Gradinaru S.R., Hersperger A.M., Schmid F. (2021). Deriving Planning Intentions from written planning documents. Report on CONCUR...

    Last updated: March 1, 2022

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    • development-priorities
    • strategic-plans
    • urban-region
    • europe
    • spatial-information
  • SnowMicroPen measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

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    Education, culture and sport

    SnowMicroPen (SMP) measurements and manual snowpits from Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Measurements were taken in the vicinity of the Belgium Princess Elisabeth Station...

    Last updated: June 21, 2022

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    • antarctica
    • snow-density
    • snow-density-profile
    • microstructure
    • snowmicropen
  • Bibliography of the long-term treeline research site Stillberg, Switzerland

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    Education, culture and sport

    Background information

    The Stillberg ecological treeline research site in the Swiss Alps was established in 1975, with the aim to develop ecologically, technically, and...

    Last updated: October 19, 2023

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    • literature-review
    • mountain-ecology
    • treeline-ecosystems
    • long-term-experiment
    • stillberg
  • Robot-aided measurement of insect diversity on vegetation using environmental DNA

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    Education, culture and sport

    Traditional methods of biodiversity monitoring are often logistically challenging, time-consuming, require experienced experts on species identification and sometimes include...

    Last updated: June 26, 2025

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    • insect
    • minion
    • switzerland
    • drone
    • edna
    • ins16s