Canada Forest Post-Disturbance Recovery Rate (1985-2017)

Post-disturbance forest recovery data for Canada's forested ecosystems, representing a total area of ~650 million ha, captures the return of forests following wildfire and harvest that occurred between 1986 and 2012. It is developed within the framework of Canada’s National Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring System (NTEMS). These spatially-explicit outputs represent the rate of spectral recovery: the rate at which a pixel returns to 80% of its pre-disturbance value (White et al. 2017) within the observation period (1985-2017) using the Y2R or Years-to-Recovery metric derived from Landsat times series data. Baseline rates of spectral recovery (Y2R) were defined for each of Canada's 12 forested ecozones. These baselines were then used to identify spatial clusters of recovering pixels on the landscape where Y2R were either significantly faster or slower than their ecozonal baseline. Finally, areas that were disturbed by wildfire and harvest (1986-2012), but which had not recovered by the end of the observation period (2017) are also provided. Note that these areas are still recovering, but they had not yet recovered according to our metric of spectral recovery, by the end of the time series in 2017. For an overview of the methods, the validation of the Y2R metric, and interpretation of the derived trends, see White et al. (2022) and White et al. (2017).

White, J.C., Hermosilla, T., Wulder, M.A., Coops, N.C., 2022. Mapping, validating, and interpreting spatio-temporal trends in post-disturbance forest recovery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 271, 112904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.112904 ( White et al. 2022)

White, J.C., Wulder, M.A., Hermosilla, T., Coops, N.C., Hobart, G.W. 2017. A nationwide annual characterization of 25 years of forest disturbance and recovery for Canada using Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 194, pp. 303-321. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.03.035 .( White et al. 2017)

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Date ( RI_367 )
2023
Date ( RI_366 )
2023
RI_415
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Forest Geomatics - Dr. M.A.Wulder ( Research Scientist )
506 Burnside Road West , Victoria , British Columbia , V8R 2E4 , Canada
(250) 363-0600
(250) 363-6004
https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/employes/vue/mwulder
Hours of service
email only please
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords
  • National Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring System (NTEMS)
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Forests
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
otherRestrictions; autresRestrictions RI_609
Use constraints
intellectualPropertyRights; droitsPropriétéIntellectuelle RI_607
Spatial representation type
grid; grille RI_636
Metadata language
eng
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
1985
End date
2017
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3978 / 1.0
Distribution format
  • GeoTIF ( 1.0 )

RI_409
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Forest Geomatics - Brian Low ( Manager, National Forest Information System )
506 Burnside Road West , Victoria , British Columbia , V8R 2E4 , Canada
(250) 363-0600
(250) 363-6004
https://ca.nfis.org/index_eng.html
Hours of service
email only please
OnLine resource
Satellite Forest Information for Canada (English) ( HTTPS )

Application;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
CA_forest_harvest_years2recovery ( HTTPS )

Dataset;ZIP;zxx

OnLine resource
CA_forest_fire_recovery_rate.zip ( HTTPS )

Dataset;ZIP;zxx

OnLine resource
CA_forest_harvest_recovery_rate.zip ( HTTPS )

Dataset;ZIP;zxx

OnLine resource
Satellite Forest Information for Canada (French) ( HTTPS )

Application;HTML;fra

OnLine resource
A nationwide annual characterization of 25 years of forest disturbance and recovery for Canada using Landsat time series ( HTTP )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
CA_forest_harvest_years2recovery ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

OnLine resource
CA_forest_fire_years2recovery.zip ( HTTPS )

Dataset;ZIP;zxx

OnLine resource
CA_forest_harvest_years2recovery ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
Mapping, validating, and interpreting spatio-temporal trends in post-disturbance forest recovery ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

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a6b81e8b-d429-4629-9121-5a56786fcb83 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2026-02-17T10:10:24
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_415
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Forest Geomatics - Dr. M. A. Wulder ( Research Scientist )
506 West Burnside Road , Victoria , British Columbia , V8R 2E4 , Canada
(250) 363-0600
(250) 363-6004
https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/employes/vue/mwulder
Hours of service
email only please
 
 

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