Saskatchewan Digital Landcover
The Saskatchewan Digital Land Cover was created to be used in the interim. The National Land Cover Project plans to integrate land cover information compiled by Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
The Saskatchewan Digital Land Cover raster provides a seamless provincial coverage of the province and was created by combining the Saskatchewan Research Council's Northern Digital Land Cover (NDLC) with the Southern Digital Land Cover (SDLC) - See enclosures for complete metadata on these datasets. With exception to the SDLC's value 2 (i.e. Hay Crops) and value 3 (i.e. Native Dominant Grass Lands), the NDLC takes precedence over the SDLC in areas that the two rasters overlap because the NDLC is more current than the dated SDLC. The SDLC's values 2 and 3 were preserved because these land covers are not specifically represented in the NDLC. For the purpose of this dataset, some of the SDLC and NDLC values were reclassified to new values to reconcile varying definitions (i.e. See the Supplementary Information section below for a complete list of image classes with detailed descriptions). A unique colourmap was created for this dataset. It should also be noted that because the NDLC's 30 x 30 metre pixels do not align with the SDLC's 30 x 30 metre pixels, this raster was snapped to the NDLC. Last, as is with the SDLC and the NDLC, the extent of this raster does not extend all of the way to the Saskatchewan boundary, specifically, the Information Services Corporation's SaskGIS Provincial Boundary dataset, in numerous areas along the west, south and southeast borders: There are gaps of up to 500 m wide of "no data" between the provincial boundary and the raster along these areas of the Saskatchewan boundary.
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- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2019-11-27
- Date ( RI_366 )
- 2019-11-27
- Status
- onGoing; enContinue RI_596
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown; inconnu RI_543
- Keywords ( RI_528 )
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- raster
- landcover
- environment
- Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
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- Government information
- Use limitation
- Standard Unrestricted Use Data License (Version 2.0) - Saskatchewan (https://gisappl.saskatchewan.ca/Html5Ext/Resources/GOS_Standard_Unrestricted_Use_Data_Licence_v2.0.pdf)
- Access constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Use constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Spatial representation type
- grid; grille RI_636
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Metadata language
- fra; CAN
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Begin date
- 0001-01-01
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- Reference system identifier
- unknown / unknown / unknown
- Distribution format
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HTML
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unknown
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- OnLine resource
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original metadata (http://geohub.saskatchewan.ca)
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Dataset;HTML;eng
- File identifier
- 8d128830-df2b-1b8a-0899-d9e85b9e6d82 XML
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Hierarchy level
- dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
- Date stamp
- 2021-02-03
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- HNAP ISO:19115 - 2003
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