About Geoscope
What is Geoscope?
Geoscope is a tool for exploring the environment around any Nova Scotia land parcel. Enter an eight-digit Parcel Identifier (PID) and Geoscope assembles satellite imagery, topographic maps, wetland data, wildlife observations, soil classification, flood projections, and more — all in one place.
All data displayed by Geoscope comes from publicly available government and community datasets. No account is required and nothing is stored.
Data sources
Geoscope integrates the following open datasets:
Parcels, wetlands, surficial aquifers, protected areas, arsenic risk, soil types, ecological land classification, coastal flood projections, and forest inventory.
Property and municipal datasets from across Nova Scotia.
Citizen-science species observations recorded on or near the parcel by local naturalists.
Reverse geocoding to display a human-readable address.