GIS Service Centre
swisstopo’s GIS Service Centre (SC GIS) supports the armasuisse Real Estate with the digitalisation and everyday management of the large amount of spatial information used in the course of the DDPS’s real estate management activities.

armasuisse Real Estate (ar Real Estate) manages around 24,000 hectares of land and 7,000 DDPS buildings and facilities. This real estate portfolio is one of the most extensive and diverse in Switzerland. swisstopo’s SC GIS provides the specialist geoinformatics and geoinformation services needed by ar Real Estate. The SC-GIS’s responsibilities include operating the real estate geographic information system (ImmoGIS), geodata management, performing spatial analyses and supporting projects in areas relating to geoinformation and building information modelling (BIM).
Operation and development of the real estate geographic information system
The geodata for the DDPS’s real estate management activities is mainly spatially displayed using the WebGIS application ImmoGIS. This application allows military and civil geodata available to the various organisations within the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) for use during their day-to-day work to be combined. The SC GIS takes care of the technical operation, support and development of the system in cooperation with the Federal Administration’s ICT service providers.
Tasks, analyses and project support
The SC GIS provides support to geoinformation projects. It helps everyone involved in the DDPS’s real estate processes to create new geographic datasets and geoinformation solutions. For example, it works with armasuisse Real Estate and the General Secretariat of the DDPS to implement the minimal geodata model for the noise exposure register for military training areas, shooting grounds and exercise grounds.Employees of ar Real Estate are able to commission the SC GIS directly to a certain extent. For instance, the results of spatial and statistical data analyses are used in the sustainability report published by armasuisse Real Estate.