National Deforestation Monitoring System (NDMS)

National Deforestation Monitoring System (NDMS) is an open dataset from Natural Resources Canada with 8 files (HTML, PDF, WMS, SHP, XLSX); catalogue record updated 2024-02-16. On CanQuery you can open its CSV or Excel file as a table, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows as CSV and follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

Deforestation in Canada is estimated with the National Deforestation Monitoring System (NDMS). Details describing this process are published here: https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/publications?id=36042. Deforestation is the direct human-induced conversion of forested land to non-forested land use. Canada’s National Deforestation Monitoring System (NDMS) was designed and implemented to provide information needed by Canada to meet its obligation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to report the areas affected annually by deforestation. It also provides important information for the public, government policy makers, and scientists. To provide information about the amount of deforestation and why, where, and when it occurred in Canada, the NDMS uses deforestation mapped on a system of sample areas. The mapping is based on visual interpretation of satellite imagery supported by available ancillary information, such as high resolution imagery, forest inventory, and industrial databases, and informed by records-based information and expert knowledge. Accurate detection and mapping of deforestation events involves manual interpretation of satellite remote…

Publisher

Natural Resources Canada

Resources

8

Catalogue metadata updated

2024-02-16