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The Canadian Radiological Monitoring Network – Monitoring Stations

Health Canada routinely collects environmental samples for radioactivity analysis. The backbone of its monitoring comes from three separate networks: The Canadian Radiological Monitoring Network (CRMN), the Fixed Point Surveillance Network (FPS), and a Canadian contribution to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTo). This dataset provides the approximate sampling location of the monitoring stations for each network.

CRMN is a national network that routinely collects air particulate, precipitation, external gamma dose, drinking water, atmospheric water vapour, and milk samples for radioactivity analysis. The CRMN has been operating since 1959, and is used to establish long-term trends in naturally occurring environmental radioactivity, nuclear weapons fallout, as well as radioactivity generated by other human activities including nuclear power generation and medical isotope production. Full datasets for the Canadian Radiological Monitoring Network are available on the Open Government Portal.

The Fixed Point Surveillance System (FPS) is an integrated network of radiation detectors providing terrestrial gamma radiation measurements in real time. The detectors are located in every province and territory of Canada with larger numbers in the vicinity of major Canadian nuclear facilities and ports where nuclear powered vessels sometimes harbour. Almost real time measurements are available on the EURDEP (EUropean Radiological Data Exchange Platform) website and monthly summaries are provided on the Health Canada website.

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a universal arms control treaty that bans all States from conducting nuclear explosions in any environment (atmosphere, underground, underwater). Canada is a signatory to the United Nations CTBT. The Radiation Protection Bureau of Health Canada is responsible for four certified radionuclide monitoring stations and a certified radionuclide laboratory. Additional information on the CTBT is available on the CTBTo website.

The map shows the approximate sampling location for each monitoring station. Stations are found within the associated location range.

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Date ( RI_366 )
2020-11-20
Date ( RI_367 )
2021-03-29
RI_414
  Government of Canada;Health Canada
775 Brookfield Road , Ottawa , Ontario , K1A 0K9 , Canada
1 (613) 954-6647
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • environmental radioactivity monitoring
  • radiation monitoring
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( Theme )
  • Radioactive materials
  • Radioactivity
  • Health
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
Metadata language
fra; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Health
  • Environment
Begin date
2014-09
End date
2020-05
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3978 /
Distribution format
  • ESRI REST ( 10.7.1 )

  • WMS ( 1.3.0 )

RI_410
  Government of Canada;Health Canada;Healthy Environments Consumer Safety Branch - ( )
775 Brookfield Rd , Ottawa , Ontario ,
RI_412
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada - ( )
Sherbrooke ,
OnLine resource
Monitoring Stations ( HTTPS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
Monitoring Stations ( HTTPS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

OnLine resource
Network supporting infomation ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng,fra

OnLine resource
EURDEP website ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
CTBTo website ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
Monitoring Stations ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
Monitoring Stations ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

File identifier
d256b422-2834-40a2-9f0c-bd5fc32781b2 XML
Metadata language
fra; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2021-03-31T14:06:49
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;Natural Resources Canada
Canada
 
 

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Keywords

Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada
Health Radioactive materials Radioactivity

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