Active Monitoring of River Ice in Canada

Active Monitoring of River Ice in Canada is an open dataset from Natural Resources Canada with 13 files (ESRI REST, XML, PDF, WMS, FGDB/GDB); catalogue record updated 2025-05-02. On CanQuery you can follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

River ice roughness products from the last three days in selected Canadian regions that have been designated for observation, monitored by Natural Resources Canada using satellite imagery for emergency response. Coverage is not comprehensive nationwide. In order to mitigate ice jam induced flood risks, Natural Resources Canada emergency geomatics service (EGS) may be activated by Canada’s emergency management authorities. As new satellite imagery becomes available, NRCan will produce river ice roughness maps and update the dataset in near real time (4 hours). This item contains the latest river ice roughness products generated in the past three days. For any data older than 72 hours, please refer to the River Ice in Canada - Current Year entry. The river ice product is generated and validated on a best effort basis. Various factors may affect the quality of the river ice roughness maps. Those factors include but are not limited to: environmental condition at the time of acquisition, image resolution or the limitations of the methodology used. To view a specific product in Web Services, filter the data by date (UTC Date) and area of interest (AOI). A link to download specific EGS…

Publisher

Natural Resources Canada

Resources

13

Catalogue metadata updated

2025-05-02