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Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finnish Flood Centre (Tulvakeskus), ELY Centres, Finnish Supervisory Agency (Valvira), in collaboration with Finnish water sector expert organisations

VESI Map service

The Vesi.fi Karttapalvelu (Map Service) is a national, interactive web-based GIS platform that provides spatial and thematic information on Finland’s water environment. It is a multi-layer national water GIS platform for monitoring, visualising, and communicating water-related environmental conditions and risks.

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What you can do with it

Input

  • Explore multi-layer spatial and thematic information on Finland's water environment
  • Use historical and present observational, socio-economic/exposure and other data layers

Output

  • Maps and narratives on water-related environmental conditions and risks

Use it to

  • Monitor, visualise and communicate water-related environmental conditions
  • Assess exposure to heavy precipitation, flooding, coastal flooding/storm surge, sea-level rise, heat, drought, cold waves and snow/avalanche
  • Support the "preparing the ground", risk-assessment and monitoring/evaluation stages of Finnish water-related adaptation work

Why is it relevant to climate adaptation

A genuinely cross-institutional national platform — built jointly by Finland's environment, meteorological, flood and supervisory agencies with water-sector experts — giving broad hazard coverage and multi-agency credibility in one GIS interface. Underlying data has no systematic update cycle, and it offers no nature-based-solution, cost-benefit or just-resilience functionality.

Used in

  • National water-environment monitoring and communication in Finland, jointly run by SYKE, FMI, the Finnish Flood Centre, ELY Centres and Valvira
  • Agriculture, biodiversity, buildings, business and industry, coastal areas, disaster risk reduction, energy, health, land use planning, marine and fisheries, tourism, transport, urban and water management

Metadata

User Group
National authoritiesSubnational authoritiesBusinesses/consultants
Geographic coverage
Countries:
Finland
Spatial resolution

Local

Support of Adaptation Policy Cycle
Step 1: Preparing the Ground for Adaptation
Step 2: Assessing Climate Change Risks and Vulnerabilities
Step 6: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
Adaptation sectors
AgricultureBiodiversityBuildings
Climate hazards
Heavy precipitation / extreme rainfallFloodingCoastal flooding / storm surge
Type of outputs
Maps and graphsNarratives
Temporality of data
Historical/pastPresent
Language
English, Finish
Accessibility and usability
Moderate
Data sources
Public datasets from external providersProject-generated or processed datasetsUser-provided input data
Tool validation use
Expert validation / reputable institution

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