High resolution forest change for Canada (Binary Change/No-change) 1985-2011

High resolution forest change for Canada (Binary Change/No-change) 1985-2011 is an open dataset from Natural Resources Canada with 6 files (HTML, WMS, ZIP); catalogue record updated 2019-01-21. On CanQuery you can follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

High resolution forest change for Canada (Binary Change/No-change) 1985-2011 The forest change data included in this product is national in scope (entire forested ecosystem) and represents the first wall-to-wall characterization of wildfire and harvest in Canada at a spatial resolution commensurate with human impacts. The information outcomes represent 27 years of stand replacing change in Canada’s forests, derived from a single, consistent spatially-explicit data source, derived in a fully automated manner. This demonstrated capacity to characterize forests at a resolution that captures human impacts is key to establishing a baseline for detailed monitoring of forested ecosystems from management and science perspectives. Time series of Landsat data were used to characterize national trends in stand replacing forest disturbances caused by wildfire and harvest for the period 1985–2011 for Canada's 650 million hectare forested ecosystems (https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0034425717301360 ). Landsat data has a 30m spatial resolution, so the change information is highly detailed and is commensurate with that of human impacts. These data represent annual stand replacing forest…

Publisher

Natural Resources Canada

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6

Catalogue metadata updated

2019-01-21