Forest Canopy Height (2022)

This dataset provides wall-to-wall maps of forest structure across Canada's 650 million hectare forested ecosystems for the year 2022, generated at a spatial resolution of 30 m. Structure estimates include key attributes such as canopy height, canopy cover, and aboveground biomass, derived using a combination of airborne lidar and Landsat-based spectral composites. Structure models were trained using the - lidar-plot framework - (Wulder et al. 2012), which integrates co-located airborne lidar data and ground plot measurements with Landsat time-series composites (Hermosilla et al. 2016). A Nearest Neighbour imputation approach was applied to estimate structural attributes across the full extent of Canada's forested area. These nationally consistent products are intended to support strategic-level forest monitoring and assessment and are not designed for operational forest management.

For further details on the methods, accuracy assessment, and source data, see Matasci et al. (2018).

Matasci, G., Hermosilla, T., Wulder, M.A., White, J.C., Coops, N.C., Hobart, G.W., Bolton, D.K., Tompalski, P., Bater, C.W., 2018. Three decades of forest structural dynamics over Canada's forested ecosystems using Landsat time-series and lidar plots. Remote Sensing of Environment, 216, 697-714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.07.024 (Matasci et al. 2018)

Date ( RI_367 ): 2023

Date ( RI_366 ): 2023

RI_415

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Forest Geomatics - Dr. M.A.Wulder ( Research Scientist )

506 Burnside Road West , Victoria , British Columbia , V8R 2E4 , Canada

(250) 363-0600
(250) 363-6004
https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/employes/vue/mwulder

Hours of service: email only please

Status: onGoing; enContinue RI_596

Maintenance and update frequency: asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )

Forests

Use limitation: Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)

Access constraints: otherRestrictions; autresRestrictions RI_609

Use constraints: intellectualPropertyRights; droitsPropriétéIntellectuelle RI_607

Spatial representation type: grid; grille RI_636

Metadata language: eng

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Geoscientific information

Begin date: 2022

End date: 2022

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Reference system identifier: http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3978 / 1.0

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GeoTIF ( 1.0 )

RI_409

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Forest Geomatics - Brian Low ( Manager, National Forest Information System )

506 Burnside Road West , Victoria , British Columbia , V8R 2E4 , Canada

(250) 363-0600
(250) 363-6004
https://ca.nfis.org/index_eng.html

Hours of service: email only please

OnLine resource: Satellite Forest Information for Canada (English) ( HTTPS )
Application;HTML;eng

OnLine resource: Satellite Forest Information for Canada (French) ( HTTPS )
Application;HTML;fra

OnLine resource: A nationwide annual characterization of 25 years of forest disturbance and recovery for Canada using Landsat time series ( HTTP )
Supporting Document;HTML;eng

OnLine resource: CA_canopy_height_2022 ( OGC:WMS )
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OnLine resource: CA_canopy_height_2022.zip ( HTTPS )
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OnLine resource: CA_canopy_height_2022 ( OGC:WMS )
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OnLine resource: Three decades of forest structural dynamics over Canada's forested ecosystems using Landsat time-series and lidar plots. ( HTTPS )
Supporting Document;PDF;eng

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Metadata language: eng; CAN

Character set: utf8; utf8 RI_458

Hierarchy level: dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622

Date stamp: 2026-02-03T13:34:21

Metadata standard name: North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata

Metadata standard version: CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009

RI_415

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Forest Geomatics - Dr. M. A. Wulder ( Research Scientist )

506 West Burnside Road , Victoria , British Columbia , V8R 2E4 , Canada

(250) 363-0600
(250) 363-6004
https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/employes/vue/mwulder

Hours of service: email only please

Overviews

Forest_canopy_height.png

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