International Cooperation for Monitoring ¶

The environment is closely monitored at an international level. At a European level, we lend both technical and scientific support to various land monitoring activities. We also contribute to their improvement and enhancement.

Large-scale environmental monitoring takes place at both national and international levels. At the European level, it is coordinated by the European Environment Agency (EEA). As a member of the EEA, Switzerland provides its national environmental data, which are then used in European environmental reports. The landscape and its changes have been continuously monitored at the European level for a long time. For example, since 1990, the development of land use (e.g. agriculture, forestry, and industry) and land cover (e.g. grassland, forest, and buildings) has been comprehensively recorded in the "CORINE Land Cover (CLC)" inventory. Parameters such as impervious surfaces, tree densities and river areas are also mapped at a high resolution every three years throughout Europe. On behalf of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), we lend technical and scientific support for European land monitoring by contributing our knowledge of remote sensing methodology and our many years of experience with monitoring programmes at an international level.

FOEN - State-of-the-environment reports at the international level

Flyers EEA Land Monitoring

High Resolution Layers Summary

Technical Libraries EEA

• European Environment Agency
• Copernicus Land Monitoring
• EAGLE Working group
• EIONET network