Swiss landscape data

Spatially-referenced data on elevation, forest cover, and water at a 1km-sq resolution.

data(Switzerland)

Format

A data frame with 42275 observations on the following 5 variables.

x

Easting (m)

y

Northing (m)

elevation

a numeric vector (m)

forest

a numeric vector (percent cover)

water

a numeric vector (percent cover)

Details

Forest and water coverage (in percent area) was computed using the 1992-97 landcover dataset of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (http://www.bfs.admin.ch). Median elevation (in metres) was computed using a median aggregation of the digital elevation model of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office.

x and y are the coordinates of the center of each 1km2 pixel.

The coordinate reference system intentionally not specified.

These data can only be used for non-profit projects. Otherwise, written permission must be obtained from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office

Source

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (http://www.bfs.admin.ch)

Examples

library(lattice)
data(Switzerland)
str(Switzerland)
#> 'data.frame':	42275 obs. of  5 variables:
#>  $ x        : int  910942 910942 911942 911942 911942 911942 911942 911942 911942 911942 ...
#>  $ y        : int  54276 55276 54276 55276 56276 57276 61276 62276 63276 64276 ...
#>  $ elevation: int  340 340 380 390 357 357 500 472 462 472 ...
#>  $ forest   : int  6 11 4 72 9 5 0 43 6 0 ...
#>  $ water    : int  0 1 0 3 7 5 0 0 0 0 ...

levelplot(elevation ~ x + y, Switzerland, aspect="iso",
    col.regions=terrain.colors(100))

if (FALSE) {
library(raster)
el.r <- rasterFromXYZ(Switzerland[,c("x","y","elevation")], crs =
"+proj=somerc +lat_0=46.95240555555556 +lon_0=7.439583333333333
+k_0=1 +x_0=600000 +y_0=200000 +ellps=bessel
+towgs84=674.374,15.056,405.346,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs")
plot(el.r)
spplot(el.r)
}