Arctic SDI catalogue
Land Cover of Canada - Cartographic Product Collection
Collection of Land Cover products for Canada as produced by Natural Resources Canada using Landsat satellite imagery. This collection of cartographic products offers classified Land Cover of Canada at a 30 metre scale, updated on a 5 year basis.
- [Landcover of Canada 2010](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/c688b87f-e85f-4842-b0e1-a8f79ebf1133)
- [Landcover of Canada 2015](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/4e615eae-b90c-420b-adee-2ca35896caf6)
- [Landcover of Canada 2020](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/ee1580ab-a23d-4f86-a09b-79763677eb47)
Simple
- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2019-11
- Date ( RI_366 )
- 2019-11
- Purpose
- Information on land cover across Canada provided by these datasets are valuable for a range of audiences, including international organizations such as the United Nations Environment Programme, nongovernmental conservation organizations, land managers, and scientific researchers. The national scale land cover data can be used to address issues such as climate change, carbon sequestration, biodiversity loss, and changes in ecosystem structure and function, by helping users to better understand the dynamics and national-scale patterns of changing environment.
- Credit
- Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS)/Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
- Status
- onGoing; enContinue RI_596
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
- Keywords ( RI_528 )
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- Land Cover
- Remote Sensing
- Landsat
- Reflectance
- Keywords ( RI_525 )
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- Mid-latitude
- Western Hemisphere
- Northern Hemisphere
- North America
- Canada
- Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
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- Geographical maps
- Use limitation
- Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
- Access constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Use constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Spatial representation type
- grid; grille RI_636
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Begin date
- 2009
- End date
- 2021
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- Supplemental Information
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The standard distribution formats for this dataset are listed below.
Natural Resources Canada has Land Cover information available online at:
Latifovic, R., Pouliot, D., and Olthof, I., (2017) Circa 2010 LandCover of Canada: Local Optimization Methodology and Product Development. Remote Sensing 2017,9,1098; doi:10.3390/rs9111098. Article describes the methodology used to produce the Landcover of Canada data provided in this data set.
The following list describes the display of land cover classification in the .img file:
Value 1, Temperate or sub-polar needleleaf forest, RGB 0 0.24 0;
Value 2, Sub-polar taiga needleleaf forest, RGB 0.58 0.61 0.44;
Value 5, Temperate or sub-polar broadleaf deciduous forest, RGB 0.08 0.55 0.24;
Value 6, Mixed forest, RGB 0.36 0.46 0.17;
Value 8, Temperate or sub-polar shrubland, RGB 0.7 0.54 0.2;
Value 10, Temperate or sub-polar grassland, RGB 0.88 0.81 0.54;
Value 11, Sub-polar or polar shrubland-lichen-moss, RGB 0.61 0.46 0.33;
Value 12, Sub-polar or polar grassland-lichen-moss, RGB 0.73 0.83 0.56;
Value 13, Sub-polar or polar barren-lichen-moss, RGB 0.25 0.54 0.45;
Value 14, Wetland, RGB 0.42 0.64 0.54;
Value 15, Cropland, RGB 0.9 0.68 0.4;
Value 16, Barren lands, RGB 0.66 0.67 0.68;
Value 17, Urban, RGB 0.86 0.13 0.15;
Value 18, Water, RGB 0.3 0.44 0.64;
Value 19, Snow and Ice, RGB 1 0.98 1.
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3978 /
- Distribution format
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ESRI REST
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10.3.1
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TIFF
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Unknown
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ESRI REST
(
10.3.1
)
- Hours of service
- 0830 - 1630 ET, M - F (-5h EST/-4h EDT GMT)
- File identifier
- 11990a35-912e-4002-b197-d57dd88836d7 XML
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Hierarchy level
- dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
- Date stamp
- 2025-04-09T15:45:33
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
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