Prairie Grassland Land Cover
The Grassland Inventory provides a standardized, high-resolution land cover classification for the grassland ecosystems in Canada. Developed using a random forest classification on multi-temporal Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 Optical imagery, the series differentiates intact native grasslands from high-disturbance, tame perennial forage systems; two classes that are spectrally and phenologically similar, yet critical to differentiate and quantify accurately for carbon and biodiversity modelling. Each release in the series includes a categorical 10 m land cover raster and a companion continuous likelihood layer representing model confidence in the native grassland class. As new classifications are added (semi-decadal) and geographic extent increased, the series will enable consistent temporal comparisons to track grassland dynamics and land cover change to support operational and research applications within AAFC and stakeholders.
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- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2026-05-04
- Date ( RI_366 )
- 2026-05-04
RI_414
Government of Canada; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Science and Technology Branch
Canada
http://www.agr.gc.ca/
- Presentation form
- mapDigital;carteNumérique RI_391
- Status
- completed; complété RI_593
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned; nonPlanifié RI_542
- Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
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- Grasslands
- Agriculture
- Land cover
- Forage crops
- 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
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 2026-05-04
- End date
- 2026-05-04
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.epsg-registry.org/ / EPSG:3857 / 8.3.4
RI_414
Government of Canada; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Science and Technology Branch
Canada
http://www.agr.gc.ca/
- OnLine resource
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Pre-packaged GeoTIF files (No linguistic component)
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Dataset;GeoTIF;zxx
- OnLine resource
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Data Product Specification (English)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;PDF;eng
- OnLine resource
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Data Product Specification (French)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;PDF;fra
- File identifier
- 17736d36-ffe3-40fc-ba73-383a90862123 XML
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Hierarchy level
- dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
- Date stamp
- 2026-05-04T15:33:19
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
Overviews
Spatial extent
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W
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Associated resources
Not available
Arctic SDI catalogue