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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
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- Core+ DynamicFlood
- Streams and Flow
- Modelspaces
- Physical properties
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About
Soil types – Mapping
Soil types in SCALGO Live
We use the following set of soil types in our analyses:
- Rocks and boulders
- Gravel
- Coarse sand
- Fine sand
- Coarse sand with clay
- Fine sand with clay
- Coarse clay with sand
- Fine clay with sand
- Clay
- Fine clay
- Very fine clay
- Silt
- Gyttja/peat
- Bedrock
- Glacier
- Water
We refer to the country specific information for detail on what soil type we assign to each class in the respective country's soil map.
Note that not all countries have a soil type map available currently. Please contact us if you have questions about availability for your country.
The topsoil map
Following this mapping from national soil types to the soil typology above, we perform an adjustment of the soil type map to better reflect the type of soil we expect in the top layer of the soil. We use the land cover map and urban polygons for this mapping.
The process of going from the generalized soil map to the topsoil map is as follows:
- If the land cover map says bare rock, the soil type map is set to bedrock, regardless of what it was before.
- If the land cover map says snow/ice, the soil type is set to glacier, regardless of what it was before.
- If the land cover map says water, the soil type is set to water, regardless of what it was before.
- If the land cover map says railroad, the soil type is set gravel, regardless of what it was before.
Furthermore, some land cover types affect only some soil types, these rules are shown in the table below. The soil types not listed in the table are not affected at this step. The modifications based on unpaved road are made to ensure that infiltration rates are reduced due to the (natural) paving for soil types with high infiltration rates, but remains the same for soil types with low infiltration rates (where the lower infiltration rate in the original soil limits the infiltration rate through the paving material). The modifications based on the presence of vegetation (farmland, shallow vegetation and dense vegetation) are made to reflect that it's improbable to find vegetaion directly on e.g. gravel or bedrock, and therefore the topsoil is set to the most probable soil type found on top of that original soil type.
Soil type \ Land Cover | Unpaved road | Farmland | Shallow vegetation | Dense vegetation |
Rocks and boulders | Coarse clay with sand | Coarse sand | Coarse sand | Coarse sand |
Gravel | Coarse clay with sand | Coarse sand | Coarse sand | Coarse sand |
Coarse sand | Coarse clay with sand | - | - | - |
Fine sand | Coarse clay with sand | - | - | - |
Coarse sand with clay | Coarse clay with sand | - | - | - |
Fine sand with clay | Coarse clay with sand | - | - | - |
Silt | Coarse clay with sand | - | - | - |
Gyttja/peat | Coarse clay with sand | - | - | - |
Bedrock | - | Coarse clay with sand | Clay | Clay |
Finally, we do the following inside urban areas, to reflect the probable human modifications to the original soils:
- Coarse sand, fine sand and coarse sand with clay are set to fine sand with clay.
- Clay, fine clay, very fine clay are set to fine clay with sand.
To see what data we use to define urban areas, please see the country specific information
Both the final topsoil map and the original national soil map is available for you to see in SCALGO Live, but it is the topsoil layer that is used in our analyses.