Switzerland's Land Use Statistics

Switzerland, the Federal Office of Statistics Arealstatistik rises at intervals of 12 years, information on land use and land cover of Switzerland on the basis of aerial photographs of the Federal Office of Topography ( swisstopo ). In addition to statistics, the land use statistics and basic geographical data in hectares resolution for Geographic Information Systems ( GIS ) of the Confederation, the cantons, the research institutes and universities ready. It also provides inputs for national programs and systems of indicators.

The legal base 73, 75, 77, 104 serve the complex statistics of Article 65, of the Federal Constitution, Article 3 of the Federal Statistics Law, the Federal Council dated 17 February 1982 and the Regulation of 30 June 1993 on the implementation of statistical surveys of Federal (SR 431.012.1 ), Booth 2004.

The land use statistics is carried out in the form of a point sampling on aerial photographs of the Federal Office of Topography. It made ​​100 m in increments of 100 mm × 4.1 million sample points.

Measures the total area of ​​Switzerland on the plains Switzerland, cantons, districts, municipalities and hectares as well as any room units. The collection features are in 72 categories of land use and land cover in the areas of settlement (building & industrial area, traffic areas, recreational facilities, mining, landfill, construction sites ), agriculture (arable land, meadows, pastures, orchards, vineyards and horticulture), stocked areas ( forest, shrub forest, woodland), and unproductive areas (water, unproductive vegetation, rock, sand, boulders, glaciers, snow ) divided.

The land use statistics is carried out every 12 years since 1979. The statistics produced in the following year the production of aerial photographs and is available no later than two years after the corresponding aerial photography. The aerial photographs of the Federal Office of Topography arise in each six- year cycle ( 1979/85, 1992/97, 2004/ 09).