Land cover mapping of the St. Lawrence Lowlands, circa 2014

Land cover mapping of the St. Lawrence Lowlands, circa 2014 is an open dataset from Environment and Climate Change Canada with 21 files (FGDB/GDB, ESRI REST, LYR, PDF, WMS); catalogue record updated 2025-10-15. On CanQuery you can follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

Since 1988, the governments of Canada and Quebec have been working together to conserve, restore, protect and develop the St. Lawrence River under the St. Lawrence Action Plan (SLAP). One of the projects identified under the theme of biodiversity conservation is the development of an integrated plan for the conservation of the natural environments and biodiversity of the St. Lawrence River. The identification of priority sites for conservation has been the first step of this planning exercise. Conservation planning of natural environments requires a reliable, accurate and up-to-date image of the spatial distribution of ecosystems in the study area. In order to produce an Atlas of Priority Sites for Conservation in the St. Lawrence Lowlands, an updated cartography of the land cover of this vast territory was undertaken. This project required obtaining reliable information on the natural environments of the St. Lawrence Lowlands. Although several land cover mapping projects have been conducted for specific types of habitats, it was particularly important to obtain a homogeneous product that would cover the entire territory and that would provide the most detailed information on its…

Publisher

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Resources

21

Catalogue metadata updated

2025-10-15