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Canada Landcover - Derived from AVHRR

This land cover data set was derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensor operating on board the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites. Information on the NOAA series of satellites can be found at www.noaa.gov/satellites.html The vegetation and land cover information set has been classified into twelve categories. Information on the classification of the vegetation and land cover, raster to vector conversion, generalization for cartographic presentations is included in the paper "The Canada Vegetation and Land Cover: A Raster and Vector Data Set for GIS Applications - Uses in Agriculture" (https://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/download/landcover/scale/gis95ppr.pdf). A soil quality evaluation was obtained by cross-referencing the AVHRR information with Census of Agriculture records and biophysical (Soil Landscapes of Canada) data and is also included in the above paper. AVHRR Land Cover Data approximates a 1:2M scale and was done originally for Agriculture Canada. The projection used is Lambert Conformal Conic (LCC) 49/77 with origin at 49N 95W.

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Date ( RI_366 )
1994-01-01
Date ( RI_367 )
2014-05-27
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Science and Technology Branch
Canada
https://agriculture.canada.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 )
  • Land management
  • Remote sensing
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
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
1988-01-01
End date
1991-01-01
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Reference system identifier
www.epsg.org / EPSG: 3857 / 8.3.4
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Science and Technology Branch
Canada
https://agriculture.canada.ca
OnLine resource
Data Product Specification (English) ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
Data Product Specification (French) ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
Pre-packaged FGDB files (Bilingual) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Pre-packaged GML files (Bilingual) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;GEOJSON;eng,fra

File identifier
86d78b4b-d6e1-4272-bdbb-3da6381fb522 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2022-12-19T10:49:52
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Science and Technology Branch
Canada
https://agriculture.canada.ca
 
 

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