The Habitat Map of Switzerland v1

Lebensraumkarte der Schweiz/La carte des milieux naturels de Suisse The FOEN funded project ‘Developing a Habitat Map of Switzerland’ conducted at the WSL, has produced a map of Swiss habitats according to the TypoCH classification (Delarze et al. 2015) wall-to-wall across the whole of Switzerland, to at least the classification’s 2nd level of detail (where possible to the 3rd level of detail). The implementation of the Habitat Map of Switzerland is a vector data set, where each polygon of the dataset is classified to one habitat type only.

Habitats are mapped through a variety of approaches that can be grouped as either: 1: Derived from the existing Swiss-wide high quality landcover mapping from Swisstopo’s Topographical Landscape Model (TLM), 2: Modelled within the project using Random Forest or Ensemble Modelling techniques to model the spatial distribution of individual habitat types, 3: Combining existing species distribution models to determine habitat types, or 4: Classification with relatively simple rule-sets based on auxiliary spatial datasets, i.e. vegetation height models, the digital terrain model, the normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI) derived from aerial imagery and/or time-series of growing season Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. Further detail on the methodology can be found within the README document.

Funding Information:

This work was supported by:
  • FOEN

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Huber, Nica; Ginzler, Christian; Pazúr, Robert; Descombes, Patrice; Baltensweiler, Andri; Ecker, Klaus; Meier, Eliane; Price, Bronwyn (2022). Countrywide classification of permanent grassland habitats at high spatial resolution. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. doi:10.1002/rse2.298

Robert Pazúr; Nica Huber; Dominique Weber; Christian Ginzler; Bronwyn Price (2021). Cropland and grassland map of Switzerland based on Sentinel-2 data. EnviDat. doi: 10.16904/envidat.205

Rüetschi, M.; Weber, D.; Koch, T.L.; Waser, L.T.; Small, D.; Ginzler, C., 2021: Countrywide mapping of shrub forest using multi-sensor data and bias correction techniques. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 105: 102613 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2021.102613

Citation:

Price, Bronwyn; Huber, Nica; Ginzler, Christian; Pazúr, Robert; Rüetschi, Marius (2021). The Habitat Map of Switzerland v1. EnviDat. doi:10.16904/envidat.262.

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Metadata

Field Values
DOI 10.16904/envidat.262
Publication State Published
Authors
  • Email: bronwyn.pricefoo(at)wsl.ch ORCID: 0000-0003-3555-2588 Given Name: Bronwyn Family Name: Price Affiliation: WSL DataCRediT: Collection, Validation, Curation, Software, Publication, Supervision
  • Email: nica.huberfoo(at)wsl.ch ORCID: 0000-0001-5427-6836 Given Name: Nica Family Name: Huber Affiliation: WSL DataCRediT: Collection, Validation, Curation, Software, Publication
  • Email: christian.ginzlerfoo(at)wsl.ch ORCID: E-9544-2012 Given Name: Christian Family Name: Ginzler Affiliation: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL DataCRediT: Collection, Validation, Curation, Supervision
  • Email: robert.pazurfoo(at)wsl.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-9600-7420 Given Name: Robert Family Name: Pazúr Affiliation: WSL DataCRediT: Collection, Validation
  • Email: marius.rueetschifoo(at)wsl.ch Given Name: Marius Family Name: Rüetschi Affiliation: WSL DataCRediT: Collection, Validation
Contact Person Given Name: Bronwyn Family Name: Price Email: bronwyn.pricefoo(at)wsl.ch Affiliation: WSL ORCID: 0000-0003-3555-2588
Subtitles
Publication Publisher: EnviDat Year: 2021
Dates
  • Type: Collected Date: 2020-10-01
  • Type: Created Date: 2021-10-04
Version 1.0
Type dataset
General Type Dataset
Language English
Location Switzerland
Content License WSL Data Policy
Last Updated October 27, 2022, 06:50 (UTC)
Created November 18, 2021, 12:40 (UTC)