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Why Icon Map for Environmental?

The environment is measured everywhere and changes by the hour. Icon Map brings sensors, warnings, designations and risk together on one live map, inside the Power BI reports and Microsoft Fabric workspaces your teams already use, so everyone from field teams to the board sees the same picture.

Live river levels: Environment Agency (Open Government Licence)

Monitor, protect, report

Environmental data, where it belongs: on the map

River gauges, water quality samples, air monitors, habitat surveys, permits and incidents all describe places. Icon Map puts them on an interactive map beside your charts and KPIs, so you can see what is happening, where it matters and who it affects, then act on it.

Build environmental reports in Power BI with Icon Map Pro, or bring live monitoring and analysis together in Microsoft Fabric with Icon Map for Fabric. The Icon Map Catalog adds ready-made context, from protected sites to flood risk zones and river networks.

  • Live monitoringSensor readings and warnings on the map as they arrive, colored by what normal looks like at each site.
  • Risk in contextFlood zones, protected sites and receptors in one view, so you see who and what is exposed.
  • Ready-made contextThousands of environmental layers in the Icon Map Catalog: designations, habitats, rivers, flood risk and more.
  • Reporting that adds upClick an area, a site or a catchment and every chart and table in the report follows.

Live river levels and flood warnings

Every river gauge in England, right now

This map reads the Environment Agency's open real-time data as the page opens: the latest level at every river gauge, colored against that gauge's own typical range, and the flood warnings in force, drawn as their warning areas. Click a gauge for its last five days, pick a warning to fly to it, and switch on catalog layers for context.

Live data: Environment Agency real-time flood-monitoring API, Open Government Licence v3. Context layers: OS Open Rivers (contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right), Environment Agency flood risk zones and Natural England SSSIs, all from the Icon Map Catalog. In Microsoft Fabric, a pipeline or notebook can land readings like these in a Lakehouse or Eventhouse on a schedule and Icon Map for Fabric maps them; in Power BI, Icon Map Pro maps them from your semantic model.

How it works

From sensor to decision

  1. Collect

    Sensors, field apps, lab results and open data feeds land in OneLake through pipelines, notebooks or Eventstreams, or in the data sources your Power BI reports already use.

    Lakehouse · Eventhouse · Dataflows · semantic models
  2. Add context

    Join each reading to its site, catchment or water body, and add designations, flood zones, habitats and boundaries from the Icon Map Catalog in a couple of clicks.

    Icon Map Catalog: environmental, boundary and reference layers
  3. Map and report

    Colour every site against its own thresholds, aggregate readings into hexagons or catchments, and cross-filter the charts beside the map, in Fabric or in Power BI.

    Icon Map for Fabric · Icon Map Pro for Power BI

Across environmental work

Where environmental teams use Icon Map

Flood and water monitoring

Map river and groundwater levels, rainfall and warnings against each site's normal range, and see which communities and assets sit in the areas at risk.

Water quality

Bring sampling points, discharge consents and storm overflows together by catchment, and trace a result back to the water bodies and protected sites downstream.

Air quality and emissions

Map monitors and emission sources, aggregate readings into hexagons or local areas, and compare exposure against the people and places nearby.

Biodiversity and protected sites

Overlay survey records on SSSIs, national parks and habitat networks from the catalog, and see where development, land use or pressures meet designated sites.

Climate risk and ESG

Score your sites, suppliers or portfolio against flood zones and other physical risks, and give stakeholders a map they can explore alongside the numbers.

Permits, incidents and compliance

Plot permitted sites, inspections and pollution incidents, then select a radius or a catchment to see every receptor and report within it.

Weather and conditions

Add weather layers to read readings against the conditions behind them. Icon Map for Fabric adds live wind, rain and temperature from the global forecast models.

Land, terrain and nature recovery

Show land cover, peat, woodland and restoration projects over 3D terrain and aerial imagery, and track progress area by area against your targets.

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Put your environmental data on the map

Build environmental reports in Power BI today with Icon Map Pro, or bring live monitoring together in Microsoft Fabric with Icon Map for Fabric.