Open environmental information systems
Obligatory monitoring by cities, municipalities, industrial plants, and other operators provides information about the burdened and altered environment.
System downtime
The Hertta Information System will be down on Tuesday 25.11 at around 15-17 for a version update. We apologise for the inconvenience.
Hertta information system
The environmental information management system Hertta includes datasets that are freely accessible and have been compiled into the Open Environmental Information Systems service. This service provides information stored in the environmental administration’s information systems about water resources, the status of surface waters, groundwater, species, environmental load, and land use, as well as geospatial data related to the environment.
Registration and login
- Login to the Open environmental information systems service (ymparisto.fi)
Previously created OIVA service credentials can be used in the new service. - Registration
When using the service, the service license and responsibilities must be taken into account. Environmental information systems are under an open data license. Additionally, the Liiteri habitat information and analysis service has its own terms of use. During registration, the user must provide the requested information to the service provider. After registration, the user will be provided with the necessary password for the service. The user’s personal data will only be used for the purpose specified in the service’s privacy statement.
Datasets included in Hertta
Water resources
Status of surface waters
- Water quality (Syke metadata portal)
- Benthic animals (Syke metadata portal)
- VHS monitoring (Syke metadata portal)
1. Water management of the 1st planning period
2. Water management of the 2nd planning period
3. Water management of the 3rd planning period (Syke metadata portal) - Phytoplankton (Syke metadata portal)
- Algal blooms (Syke metadata portal)
- Zooplankton (ymparisto.fi) (no login required) (Syke metadata portal)
- Benthic diatoms (Syke metadata portal)
Groundwaters
- Groundwater areas (Syke metadata portal)
- Observation sites (public observation sites)
- Monitoring stations
Species
- Species information (Syke metadata portal) (public part of species information)
- References
- Regulations
Environmental load
Environmental map service
- Karpalo (ymparisto.fi) (no login required)