LCZ Generator

Welcome to the LCZ Generator!

Fast and easy Local Climate Zone mapping

The LCZ-Generator is back!

After a catastrophic server outage the LCZ-Generator is back and partially operational.

On 2025-01-26 at around 06:13:00 UTC we suffered a catastrophic server outage which lead to a total loss of one filesystem and of all data on this filesystem. The LCZ-Generator's database was also affected and fully lost. However, backups were available and the most recent backup was done 2025-01-26 00:00 UTC, so only submissions made between 2025-01-26 00:00 and 2025-01-26 06:13 UTC are irreversibly lost. The number of submissions affected remains unknown.

We moved the LCZ-Generator to new home and restored the database from the backup. The Tile Map Server (TMS) is still not operational, we are not sure when the LCZ-Generator will be fully available again. This can be a few days or more likely a few weeks.

We are sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

Getting started: ¶

Read Demuzere et al. (2021) it serves as the primary user guide

Download the Training Area Template kml file

Create your Training Areas following the guidelines

Once finished, use the submission form to submit your file.

Fill out the fields in the submission form; fields with an asterisk (*) are required.

Show detailed information

Fill out the first section containing your personal information
Select the continent and country of your Training Areas and fill out the city name
Select the kml Training Area file for upload
Select the date for which the Training Areas are representative / the aerial image was taken which was used for digitizing.
You may also provide a DOI or similar reference if the Training Area dataset is published in a (peer-reviewed) paper
You may add co-authors or other relevant information to the remarks field
Finally you can decide whether your name should be displayed in the results, including a suggestion how to cite your Training Area dataset. Otherwise it is left blank.

Submit the form. If you see a green box appear on the top of the page after clicking the submit button, your submission was successful and will be processed. If a red box appears, there was a problem with your Training Area file. Check out the FAQ for more information.

You will be notified via email once the processing has finished. Depending on the current load of the system it should take ~20 minutes.

After you received the email, your submission is also available in the submission table.

Please cite the tool using:¶

Demuzere, M., Kittner, J., Bechtel, B. (2021). LCZ Generator: a web application to create Local Climate Zone maps. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9:637455. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.637455