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What's new
- Sea-level rise: Download building flooding information
- Detailed contour maps and editable buildings in Workspaces
- New in Modelspaces: Explore hydrodynamic simulations and visualise the dynamics of flow velocity
- National German high-resolution land cover map
- Specify basins and protrusions by drawing their outer boundary
- Simplified path features
- National Norwegian high-resolution land cover map
- Organise and communicate on a digital canvas
- New sidebar to help organize your analyses and queries
- Sliding contours
- Ny skyfallsanalys och en ännu bättre marktäckekarta
- New land cover map for Finland
- Depths in the depression map
- New Danish land cover map with more classes
- National Swedish High-Resolution Impervious Surface Mapping
- Watershed tool updated with even better descriptions of catchment characteristics
- National Flash Flood Map with Infiltration and Drainage for Denmark
- Add your own WMS layers to SCALGO Live
- Enriched building data in Denmark
- National hydrological corrections and Land Cover for Poland
- National hydrological corrections for Norway
- Updated Impervious Surface Mapping for Denmark
- National hydrological corrections and updated local data for Finland
- Fast and intuitive tools to work with infiltration and land use
- Improvements to vector imports and exports
- National Danish groundwater model
- New Sweden high-resolution model
- New powerful depression map and more analyses visualization options
- Introducing Modelspaces: Get your hydrodynamic models into SCALGO Live
- Use case videos
- Access a EA flood maps inside SCALGO Live
- Improved map export
- New powerful ways to edit the elevation model
- Better coloring of flooding layers and sea-level depth filtering
- National Danish High-Resolution Impervious Surface Mapping
- National access for local and regional organizations
- Simpler, more powerful downloads
- Customize Layer Transparency
- Hydrological corrections and new data in Sweden
- Improved export functionality
- Access a wide range of authorative data inside SCALGO Live
- Importing VASP data
- Measure gradients, undo edits, and Norway updates
- New terrain edit features, soil balance information and much more...
- Browse historical orthophotos in SCALGO Live
- Emergency planning with sea-level rise from national forecast data
- Detailed information about watershed composition
- Better styling of imported vector layers
- New Danish Elevation Model
- Work with gradients in the profile widget
- Flood risk screening from rivers and flow paths
- New workspace tool: Raise and lower terrain uniformly
- Importing LandXML TINs, LAS point clouds
- New model in Sweden
- Side slopes on workspace features
- Drag and drop enhancements
- Swedish contour maps
- Subsurface basins and sewage drains in workspaces
- New Interface
- Volume information for watersheds and flow paths
- New powerful tool for emergency response and coastal flood prevention
- Denmark: New flash flood map
- Sweden: Geodatasamverkan setting for Swedish users
- Import custom terrain models
- New Hydrological Corrections
- Elevation contours now available
- Download orthophotos as JPEG and PNG
- Subsurface structures in workspace
- Sea-levels in terrain profiles
- Updated orthophotos
- Models and analysis update
- User interface updates
- User interface updates
- GeoDanmark/FOT data, Matrikelkortet now available
- New flash flood map
- Download of risk polygons
- Updated orthophotos
- Nationwide hydrology on the new DHM/2015 model now available
- New flash flood map computation available with watershed download
- DHM/2015 variants and sea-levels now available nationwide
- DHM/2015 now available nationwide
- Hydrology on the new DHM/2015 model now available
- New DHM/2015 Model - now with buildings
- New DHM Model
- Watershed Tool
- Ad hoc layers
- Nationwide contour maps for all countries
- User Interface
- Canvas
- Analysis
- Workspaces
- Core+ DynamicFlood
- Streams and Flow
- Modelspaces
- Physical properties
- Country Specific
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About
Land cover – Mapping
The high-resolution land cover map in SCALGO Live is produced by SCALGO based on machine learning techniques. It is available as a standalone layer in the Land Cover category in the library.
Note, the land cover map is not available for all countries, please consult the country specific documentation for more information.
![](https://scalgo-web.imgix.net/documentation/landcover.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&cs=srgb&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=350&q=80&w=750&s=3daaf2d8ffc7bbf2456f3017cc379ba0 750w, https://scalgo-web.imgix.net/documentation/landcover.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&cs=srgb&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=466&q=80&w=1000&s=74878896a128bba3b0815e566d6186f0 1000w, https://scalgo-web.imgix.net/documentation/landcover.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&cs=srgb&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=583&q=80&w=1250&s=16cbc0577b60e9069c4e7f52477101f6 1250w, https://scalgo-web.imgix.net/documentation/landcover.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&cs=srgb&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=699&q=80&w=1500&s=534bd9f7b77405241902e43a3c34f435 1500w, https://scalgo-web.imgix.net/documentation/landcover.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&cs=srgb&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=816&q=80&w=1750&s=c8b5058c90e1df446978f7e8d46b8708 1750w)
Landcover excerpt from Germany.
Watershed queries
When you perform a watershed query you can see the land cover distribution of the watershed.
![](https://scalgo-web.imgix.net/documentation/landcover-watersheddelin.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&cs=srgb&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=384&q=80&w=750&s=b2c7274108cd967cd45766168c7bde0f 750w, https://scalgo-web.imgix.net/documentation/landcover-watersheddelin.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&cs=srgb&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=512&q=80&w=1000&s=deabde175bd9d35d0530304491747ee0 1000w, https://scalgo-web.imgix.net/documentation/landcover-watersheddelin.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&cs=srgb&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=641&q=80&w=1250&s=8c7512ff1a0d612d70816d159649f59a 1250w, https://scalgo-web.imgix.net/documentation/landcover-watersheddelin.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&cs=srgb&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=742&q=80&w=1448&s=b86adb3b67d54d97cd3a78816915db69 1448w)
Land cover information aggregated into a watershed query.
Annotated administrative regions
In the countries where we have released the land cover map, we have also annotated a number of datasets with aggregated land cover information. This could be: cadastral parcels, sewer catchments, planning zones and municipal regions, but the exact set of layers depends on data availability in each country. You can find these layers in the Land Cover category alongside the land cover map itself. For each area in those data sets we have added a field that provides the total artificial area in the region, as well as the ratio of artificial area to natural area in the region.
![](https://scalgo-web.imgix.net/documentation/landcover-parcels.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&cs=srgb&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=222&q=80&w=750&s=4606ec3854f43cf96e774fed13d594d2 750w, https://scalgo-web.imgix.net/documentation/landcover-parcels.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&cs=srgb&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=296&q=80&w=1000&s=9b1b19e9aa17df2c9b00548f74552015 1000w, https://scalgo-web.imgix.net/documentation/landcover-parcels.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&cs=srgb&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=370&q=80&w=1250&s=65bce255f4f61f85d854535c8ac8b361 1250w, https://scalgo-web.imgix.net/documentation/landcover-parcels.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&cs=srgb&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=426&q=80&w=1440&s=81bb650101a87f05c0e276b44dedad6e 1440w)
Land cover aggregated at the cadastral level. Each cadastral unit is colored according to how much artificial area it contains. For a complete breakdown of the land cover composition of a cadastral unit you can use the point query tool.
Below is the full list of our land cover classes. Their numeric ID is provided for reference, in case the map is downloaded. Please note that not all classes may be available in each country.
Code | Name |
1 | Bare land |
2 | Water |
3 | Other paved |
4 | Snow-ice |
6 | Shallow vegetation |
7 | Dense vegetation |
8 | Field |
9 | Paved road |
10 | Unpaved road |
12 | Railroad |
15 | Bare rock |
16 | Building |
17 | Unclassified |