Switzerland FOEN Hydro Linked Data Service (LINDAS)
Linked Data / SPARQL service publishing the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN/BAFU) real-time hydrological monitoring data (discharge, water level, temperature, flood danger levels) as a knowledge graph, updated every ~10 minutes. Programmatic alternative to the hydrodaten web portal already listed.
environment.ld.admin.ch
At a glance
- Region
- Switzerland (Europe)
- Coverage
- National
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
What's inside
- Streamflow
- Water Level
- Water Temperature
- Flood Warnings
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Because it has: Streamflow
- 02
Low flows
Set environmental flows and check what is left in the river in a dry year.
- 03
Hazard maps
Map flood-prone areas and who and what is exposed.
Because it has: Flood Warnings
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
- 02
Ungauged basins
Combine with catchment data to estimate flow where there is no gauge.
- 03
Flood extent from SAR
Segment flooded areas in radar imagery, even through cloud.
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- CAMELS-CH: 331 catchments in hydrologic Switzerland (DORA record)Europe | Free
- CAMELS-CH Reproducibility Guide and Dataset (Switzerland)Europe | Free
- CAMELS-CH: Hydro-meteorological Time Series and Attributes for 331 Catchments (Eawag DORA)Europe | Free
- CHMI Open Data Portal (Hydrology)Europe | Free
- NVE Hydrological API (HydAPI)Europe | Registration Required
- Swiss Federal Office for the Environment Hydrology DataEurope | Free
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