HISP (crowdsourcing)

Notify about satellite obsearvations

You can notify about satellite observation phenomenas by using a notifying form. Currently, there is only a notification form of Lake Ice Service which can be found under the theme Lake Ice Service in the right side of the Map Viewer:

Zoom to the phenomena visible in the satellite obsrvation until it fits the red dash-box (you can close the notification form to zoom in the map)

The form automatically saves the phenomena’s

  • date

  • Tarkka-url to the phenomena, and

  • the central coordinates and the coordinates of the outer corners.

Choose one from the following three choices:

You can also notify other ice-cover phenomenas (multiple choices)

You may also give a description of the phenomena into the text field. Please leave out all the personal information!

Note! Notified phenomena come publicly visible to the Lake Ice Service interface



Additional information on finding phenomenas from satellite observations

Crowdsourced screening for phenomena in satellite observations by Syke

Report problems or send improvement proposals by email to havaitsemaan@syke.fi.

Additional information on crowdsourcing by Syke

Syke’s crowdsourcing database (CitobsDB) terms of use for the HISP-data (currently only in Finnish)

Syke-crowdsourcing (currently only in Finnish)

Technical description of collected data

HISP lake ice service description

Latest 1000 observations on api since Nov 11 2023