Project Returns for Identification and Characterization of Abandoned Padded Wellsites Using Remote Sensing

The objective of this project was to map and characterize abandoned padded wellsites (i.e., constructed with imported mineral soil materials between 1940 and 2020) in peatlands within the Boreal and Foothills Regions of the Green area in Alberta. This Project used high-resolution LiDAR data combined with open-access optical data from Sentinel-2 to build a supervised machine learning model that detected padded sites. The classification procedure achieved 81.2% accuracy when predicting no pad and 73.9% accuracy when predicting a pad, for an overall classification accuracy of 78%. As a result, a total of 7,077 padded sites and 8,006 unpadded sites in peatland areas were obtained from the supervised classification. This dataset contains the locations of those 7,077 padded sites. These sites will be used by the Project team to select sites for a field-based research program and will be provided to EPA to enable improved regulatory efficiency in the Province of Alberta.

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Date ( RI_367 )
2023-02-15
Date ( RI_366 )
2022-03-14
RI_414
  Government of Alberta; Government of Alberta; Environment and Parks - ( )
https://open.alberta.ca/opendata
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
continual; continue RI_532
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • -CANADA
  • ABANDONED-WELLS
  • ALBERTA
  • BOREAL-FOREST-REGION
  • DOWNLOADABLE-DATA
  • ENVIRONMENT
  • FOOTHILLS-REGION
  • LAND-COVER
  • LIABILITY-MANAGEMENT
  • NORTHERN-ALBERTA
  • PADDED-WELLS
  • PEATLANDS
  • RECLAMATION
  • REMOTE-SENSING
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Government information
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Alberta (https://open.alberta.ca/licence)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Metadata language
fra; CAN
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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0001-01-01
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RI_414
  Government of Alberta; Government of Alberta; Environment and Parks - ( )
https://open.alberta.ca/opendata
OnLine resource
Project Returns for Identification and Characterization of Abandoned Padded Wellsites Using Remote Sensing - (HTML) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
ST37: List of Wells in Alberta Monthly Updates (From Alberta Geodiscover Portal metadata) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;HTML;eng

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Original metadata (https://open.alberta.ca/opendata) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
Project Returns for Identification and Characterization of Abandoned Padded Wellsites Using Remote Sensing - (XML) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;XML;eng

OnLine resource
Project Returns for Identification and Characterization of Abandoned Padded wellsites Using Remote Sensing (SHP) (From Alberta Geodiscover Portal metadata) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;ZIP;eng

File identifier
6d18910a-9f64-48a1-9989-5d1131974c87 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2024-10-08
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
HNAP ISO:19115 - 2003
RI_414
  Government of Alberta; Government of Alberta; Environment and Parks - ( )
https://open.alberta.ca/opendata
 
 

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