This layer represents Land use polygons as determined by a combination of analytic techniques, mostly using Landsat 5 image mosaics . BTM 1 was done on a federal satellite image base that was only accurate to about 250m. The images were geo-corrected, not ortho-corrected, so there is distortion in areas of high relief. This is not a multipart feature

Fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (fAPAR) quantified the absorbed by green foliage. fAPAR has been identified by the Global Climate Observing System as an essential climate variable required for ecosystem, weather and climate modelling and monitoring. This product consists of a national scale coverage (Canada) of monthly maps of fAPAR during a growing season (May-June-July-August-September) at 20m resolution. References: L. Brown, R. Fernandes, N. Djamai, C. Meier, N. Gobron, H. Morris, C. Canisius, G. Bai, C. Lerebourg, C. Lanconelli, M. Clerici, J. Dash. Validation of baseline and modified Sentinel-2 Level 2 Prototype Processor leaf area index retrievals over the United States IISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote Sens., 175 (2021), pp. 71-87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.02.020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924271621000617 Richard Fernandes, Luke Brown, Francis Canisius, Jadu Dash, Liming He, Gang Hong, Lucy Huang, Nhu Quynh Le, Camryn MacDougall, Courtney Meier, Patrick Osei Darko, Hemit Shah, Lynsay Spafford, Lixin Sun, 2023. Validation of Simplified Level 2 Prototype Processor Sentinel-2 fraction of canopy cover, fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation and leaf area index products over North American forests, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 293, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113600. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425723001517

BTM ( Baseline Thematic Mapping) Landsat Image Catalogue Acquisition Dates. This polygon coverage contains the date of capture of the Landsat images making up the seamless BC Landsat image catalogue. This is not a multipart feature

Each pixel value corresponds to the day-of-week (1-7) from which the Weekly Best-Quality NDVI retrieval is obtained (1 = Monday, 7 = Sunday).

Each pixel value corresponds to the mean historical “Best-quality” Max-NDVI value for a given week, as calculated from the previous 20 years in the MODIS historical record (i.e. does not include data from the current year). These data are also often referred to as “weekly baselines” or “weekly normals”.

Each pixel value corresponds to the quality control, cloud cover and snow fraction value for each pixel in the Best-Quality Max-NDVI product.

IBL - Imagery, basemaps, and land cover (imageryBaseMapsEarthCover) Basemaps. For example, resources describing land cover, topographic maps, and classified and unclassified images

The Saskatchewan Digital Land Cover was created to be used in the interim. The National Land Cover Project plans to integrate land cover information compiled by Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The Saskatchewan Digital Land Cover raster provides a seamless provincial coverage of the province and was created by combining the Saskatchewan Research Council's Northern Digital Land Cover (NDLC) with the Southern Digital Land Cover (SDLC).  With exception to the SDLC's value 2 (i.e. Hay Crops) and value 3 (i.e. Native Dominant Grass Lands), the NDLC takes precedence over the SDLC in areas that the two rasters overlap because the NDLC is more current than the dated SDLC. The SDLC's values 2 and 3 were preserved because these land covers are not specifically represented in the NDLC. For the purpose of this dataset, some of the SDLC and NDLC values were reclassified to new values to reconcile varying definitions.  It should also be noted that because the NDLC's 30 x 30 metre pixels do not align with the SDLC's 30 x 30 metre pixels, this raster was snapped to the NDLC. Last, as is with the SDLC and the NDLC, the extent of this raster does not extend all of the way to the Saskatchewan boundary, specifically, the Information Services Corporation's SaskGIS Provincial Boundary dataset, in numerous areas along the west, south and southeast borders: There are gaps of up to 500 m wide of "no data" between the provincial boundary and the raster along these areas of the Saskatchewan boundary. Classification Value AGRICULTURE 1 HAY CROPS 2 NATIVE DOMINANT GRASSLANDS 3 TALL SHRUBS 4 PASTURE 5 HARDWOODS (OPEN CANOPY) 6 HARDWOODS (CLOSED CANOPY) 7 JACKPINE (CLOSED CANOPY) 8 JACKPINE (OPEN CANOPY) 9 SPRUCE (CLOSED CANOPY) 10 SPRUCE (OPEN CANOPY) 11 MIXED WOODS 12 TREED ROCK 13 RECENT BURNS 14 REVEGETATING/REGENERATION BURN 15 CUTOVERS 16 WATER 17 MARSH 18 HERBACEOUS FEN 19 MUD/SAND/SALINE 20 SHRUB FEN (TREED SWAMP) 21 TREED BOG 22 OPEN BOG 23 FARMSTEAD 24 UNCLASSIFIED 25 BARREN LAND 26 MIXED SOFTWOODS (OPEN & CLOSED) 27 PASTURE UPLAND HERBACEOUS GRAMINOID 30 1. AGRICULTURE - Cropland, including all lands dedicated to the production of annual cereal, oil seed, and other specialty crops, and typically cultivated on an annual basis; and agricultural clearing areas.  2. HAY CROPS (Forage) - Alfalfa and alfalfa/tame grass mixtures.  3. NATIVE DOMINANT GRASSLANDS - Native dominant grasslands. (May contain tame grasses and herbs.)  4. TALL SHRUBS - Communities containing both low and tall shrub, snowberry, saskatoon, chokecherry, buffaloberry, and willow.  5. PASTURE (Seeded Grass Lands) - Grassland dominated by tame grass species.  6. HARDWOODS (I.E. OPEN CANOPY) - Greater than 75% hardwoods by area, including trembling aspen, white birch, balsam poplar; 10 - 55% crown closure.  7. HARDWOODS (I.E. CLOSED CANOPY) - Greater than 75% hardwoods by area, including trembling aspen, white birch, balsam poplar; Greater than 55% crown closure.  8. JACKPINE (I.E. CLOSED CANOPY) - Greater than 75% of Jack Pine by area; Greater than 55% crown closure.  9. JACKPINE (I.E. OPEN CANOPY) - Greater than 75% of Jack Pine by area; 10 - 55% crown closure.  10. SPRUCE (I.E. CLOSED CANOPY) - Greater than 75% or greater Black and White Spruce; Greater than 55% crown closure.  11. SPRUCE (I.E. OPEN CANOPY) - Greater than 75% Black and White Spruce; 10-55% crown closure.  12. MIXED WOODS - All softwood/hardwood mixtures; open and closed canopy (i.e. An area of hardwood and softwood combinations in which neither hardwood nor softwood account for greater than 75% of species by area, and where the crown closure is greater than 10%).  13. TREED ROCK - Areas of exposed bedrock with generally less then 10% tree cover.  14. RECENT BURNS - An area showing evidence of recent burning natural or prescribed and there is little to no regeneration or revegetation visible.  15. REVEGETATING/REGENERATION BURN - An area showing evidence of natural or prescribed burning and where regeneration or revegetation is visible.  16. CUTOVERS - An area of deforestation, vegetated and non-vegetated.  17. WATER - These areas include lakes, rivers, streams and reservoirs  18. MARSH - A periodically wet or continually flooded but non peat-forming area supporting grasses, sedges, and reeds.  19. HERBACEOUS FEN - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat supporting vascular and nonvascular plants (i.e. grasses, sedges, reeds).  20. MUD/SAND/SALINE - Water saturated soil, sand containing no vegetation, and salt water.  21. SHRUB FEN (I.E. TREED SWAMP) - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat supporting low shrubs, forbs, grass, moss, and a sparse tree cover.  22. TREED BOG - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat moss, lichen, and shrubs, with 10% or more canopy by trees (i.e. primarily black spruce and tamarack).  23. OPEN BOG - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat moss, lichen, and sparse tree cover.  24. FARMSTEAD - Farmsteads, towns, cities, exposed areas with little or no vegetation.  25. UNCLASSIFIED  26. BARREN LAND - Any area of exposed rock, soil, or non-vegetated land.  27. MIXED SOFTWOODS (OPEN & CLOSED) - Jack Pine/Spruce, Spruce/Jack Pine Open and Closed, an area of softwood combinations in which neither Jack Pine or Spruce account for greater than 75% of species by area, and where crown closure is greater than 10%.  30. PASTURE UPLAND HERBACEOUS GRAMINOID - Lands containing known pastures, tame or native grasses, and herbaceous vegetation. These lands may contain low-lying shrubs with less then 10% tree cover.

Landcover dataset created for the agricultural portion of Saskatchewan. Download: here A satellite imagery classification of Southern Saskatchewan based mainly on 1994 Landsat5 imagery. Developed by the Saskatchewan Research Council after 1997. Background: A group of Provincial and Federal Agencies formed a partnership in March of 1997 to share the cost of obtaining satellite imagery and interpreting this imagery to create a landcover dataset for the agricultural portion of Saskatchewan. The partnership included Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC), Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food (SAF), Saskatchewan Crop Insurance (SCI), Saskatchewan Property Management Corporation (SPMC), Environment Canada, the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) and Saskatchewan Environment Resource Management (SERM). The University of Regina was also involved as an 'in kind' partner providing research services in the area of land cover classifications, accuracy assessment and data conversions. The Partnership Agreement required SRC (partner doing the bulk of data processing) to provide digital files for each of 328 1:50,000 NTS map sheets. The digital files included not only raw imagery, but also one file for each map sheet where the imagery was classified into 24 landcover types. The accuracy of this classification was to be demonstrated by SRC to be at least 90 per cent correct. In addition to the data processing done by SRC, SPMC provided the necessary positional control data (road intersection coordinates) and verified the positional accuracy of the final product. The other partners provided feedback to SRC on classification errors, which improved the overall accuracy of the final product. Classification Value No Data 0 Crop Land 1 Hay Crops (Forage) 2 Native Dominant Grass Lands 3 Tall Shrubs 4 Pasture (Seeded Grass Lands) 5 Hardwoods (Open Canopy) 6 Hardwoods (Closed Canopy) 7 Jack Pine (Closed Canopy) 8 Jack Pine (Open Canopy) 9 Spruce (Close Canopy) 10 Treed Rock 13 Recent Burns 14 Revegetating Burns 15 Cutovers 16 Water Bodies 17 Marsh 18 Herbaceous Fen 19 Mud/Sand/Saline 20 Shrub Fen (Treed Swamp) 21 Treed Bog 22 Open Bog 23 Slopes 25 Slopes 26 0. No Data 1. Crop Land - All lands dedicated to the production of annual cereal, oil seed and other specialty crops, and typically cultivated on an annual basis.  2. Hay Crops (Forage) - Alfalfa and alfalfa/tame grass mixtures.  3. Native Dominant Grass Lands - Native dominant grasslands/may contain tame grasses and herbs.  4. Tall Shrubs - Communities containing both low and tall shrub, snowberry, saskatoon, chokecherry, buffaloberry, and willow.  5. Pasture (Seeded Grass Lands) - Grassland dominated by tame grass species.  6. Hardwoods (Open Canopy) - Corresponds to Provincial Forest Inventory: over 75% hardwoods; 10-30% crown closure.  7. Hardwoods (Closed Canopy) - Corresponds to Provincial Forest Inventory: over 75% hardwoods; 30-100% crown closure.  8. Jack Pine (Closed Canopy) - Similar to Provincial Forest Inventory: 75% or greater Jack Pine; 30-100% crown closure.  9. Jack Pine (Open Canopy) - Similar to Provincial Forest Inventory: 75% or greater Jack Pine; 10-30% crown closure.  10. Spruce (Close Canopy) - Similar to Provincial Forest Inventory: 75% or greater Black and White Spruce; 10-30% crown closure. 11. Spruce: Open Canopy - Similar to Provincial Forest Inventory: 75% or greater Black and White Spruce; 10-30% crown closure. 12. Mixed Woods - All softwood/hardwood mixtures.  13. Treed Rock - Areas of exposed bedrock with generally less then 10% tree cover. Dominant species are Jack Pine and Black Spruce.  14. Recent Burns - All areas that have been recently burned over by wildfires.  15. Revegetating Burns - Burns with a regrowth of commercial timber generally 1-5 metres in height.  16. Cutovers - Areas where commercial timber has been completely or partially removed by logging operations.  17. Water Bodies - Consists of all open water - lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, and lagoons.  18. Marsh - Dominated by sedge and wetland grasses.  19. Herbaceous Fen - Fens dominated by herbaceous species.  20. Mud/Sand/Saline  21. Shrub Fen (Treed Swamp) - Fens dominated by shrubby species.  22. Treed Bog - Peat-covered or peat-filled depressions with a high water table and a surface carpet of moss, chiefly sphagnum. The bogs have 25% or more canopy by trees greater than one metre tall. The primary species is black spruce.  23. Open Bog - Peat-covered or peat-filled depressions with a high water table and a surface carpet of moss, chiefly sphagnum. 24. Farmstead - Farmstead types, towns, cities, Exposed areas with little or no vegetation or Cloud coverage.  25. Slopes - Steep Valley slopes or hill slopes where aspect and slope prohibit classification. 26. Slopes - Steep Valley slopes or hill slopes where aspect and slope prohibit classification.

Topographic maps produced by Natural Resources Canada conform to the National Topographic System (NTS) of Canada. Indexes are available in three standard scales: 1:1,000,000, 1:250,000 and 1:50,000. The area covered by a given mapsheet is determined by its latitude and longitude. 1:1,000,000 mapsheets are identified by a combination of three numbers (e.g. 098). 1:250,000 mapsheets are identified by a combination of numbers, and letters ranging from A through P (e.g. 098C). Sixteen smaller segments (1 to 16) form blocks used for 1:50,000 mapping (e.g. 098C03).