National Human Settlement - Physical Exposure

The Physical Exposure component of the National Human Settlement Layer (NHSL), defined here as the ‘Physical Exposure Model’, includes a delineation of settled areas and related land use across Canada, as well as information about buildings, persons, and building replacement values (structure and contents) within those areas.

Buildings within the inventory are classified using a combination of occupancy types, engineering-based construction types adopted for Canada, and design levels representing the approximate building code requirements at the time of construction. The inventory is derived from detailed housing statistics provided at the dissemination area level as part of the 2016 national census and from georeferenced business listings. Building populations at different times of day are estimated for standard daytime hours (9am-5pm); for morning and evening commute hours (7am-9am; 5pm-7pm), and; for nighttime hours when the majority of people are home (7pm-7am). Replacement values are provided for structural, nonstructural, and contents components of buildings, based on industry replacement costs for representative regions across Canada.

The physical exposure model is provided in two formats: (1) According to settled areas (i.e., polygons), which are areas that approximately delineate clusters of buildings across Canada. Summary statistics about buildings and populations within each settled area boundary are provided. (2) According to building archetypes (i.e., points) within settled areas. These are represented as point locations at the centroid of the corresponding settled area, and each settled area can have multiple point features corresponding to different building archetypes present within that area.

In total, the model characterizes 35.2 million people in 9.7 million buildings across 390,000 locations with a total approximate replacement value of $8.2 trillion (2019 CAD) including contents.

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Date ( RI_366 )
2020-06-15
Date ( RI_367 )
2020-11-15
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Lands and Minerals Sector, Geological Survey of Canada - LeSueur, Philip ( Research Scientist )
1500 – 605 Robson Street , Vancouver , British Columbia , V6B 5J3 , Canada
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Lands and Minerals Sector, Geological Survey of Canada - Hastings, Nicky ( Project Manager )
1500 – 605 Robson Street , Vancouver , British Columbia , V6B 5J3 , Canada
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Lands and Minerals Sector, Geological Survey of Canada - van Ulden, Joost ( Project Advisor )
1500 – 605 Robson Street , Vancouver , British Columbia , V6B 5J3 , Canada
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 )
  • Land management
  • Planning
  • Sustainable development
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
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Topic category
  • Society
Begin date
2016
End date
2021
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
Distribution format
  • GPKG ( 1.2 )

  • ESRI REST ( 10.71 )

  • WMS ( 1.3.0 )

RI_412
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Lands and Minerals Sector, Geological Survey of Canada - ( )
OnLine resource
NHSL Physical Exposure (Settlement Area) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;GPKG;eng,fra

OnLine resource
NHSL Physical Exposure ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
NHSL Physical Exposure ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

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NHSL Physical Exposure ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
NHSL Physical Exposure ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

OnLine resource
NHSL Physical Exposure (Buildings) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;GPKG;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Data Dictionary ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;XLSX;eng

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Data Dictionary ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;XLSX;fra

OnLine resource
GitHub Repository ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
Geological Survey of Canada Open File ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;ZIP;eng

File identifier
1818cf27-03ea-4ebb-bc43-fd371b42198b XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Parent identifier
Human Settlement and Natural Hazards in Canada e9905001-6a39-43ca-a02d-4ab5144df0f8
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2022-08-26T16:02:57
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_412
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Lands and Minerals Sector, Geological Survey of Canada - ( )
1500 – 605 Robson Street , Vancouver , British Columbia , V6B 5J3 , Canada
 
 

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