Abstract: This 5 class 6 m resolution land cover was created for the NSWA and BRWA in 2020-2021 using SPOT6/7 imagery from 2017 and 2018 provided by the Government of Alberta in order to assess riparian intactness for 25,272 km of shoreline in Alberta. The land cover was developed from 44 separate supervised random forest classifications of 41 different SPOT6 6m imagery tiles from 2017/2018 and was then clipped to a 50 m buffer around waterbodies of interest. The full classification is composed of 41 individual polygon files, each of which corresponds to the original SPOT tile that the classification was performed on. Details on the individual SPOT tiles is available in the accompanying report. Two data products are available from this project: Wall to Wall Land Cover (available in TIFF and FGDB formats) and Shoreline Buffer (available in TIFF format). Please see the Distribution Information to obtain the data products.
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Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta
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Lands Planning Branch, Lands Division
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Address:
Delivery point:
3rd Floor, South Petroleum Plaza
Delivery point:
9915 108 Street
City:
Edmonton
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Alberta
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T5K 2G8
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Country:
CA
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AEP.Planning@gov.ab.ca
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Date stamp:
2021-09-14
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Data identification:
Citation:
Citation:
Title:
Project Returns for North Saskatchewan and Battle River Watersheds Land Cover Dataset
Alternate title:
NSWA BRWA Land Cover Dataset
Date:
Date:
Date:
2021-03-04
Date type:
Date type code:
creation
Cited responsible party:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta
Position name:
Lands Planning Branch, Lands Division
Contact info:
Contact:
Address:
Address:
Delivery point:
3rd Floor, South Petroleum Plaza
Delivery point:
9915 108 Street
City:
Edmonton
Administrative area:
Alberta
Postal code:
T5K 2G8
Country:
Country:
CA
Electronic mail address:
AEP.Planning@gov.ab.ca
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Abstract:
This 5 class 6 m resolution land cover was created for the NSWA and BRWA in 2020-2021 using SPOT6/7 imagery
from 2017 and 2018 provided by the Government of Alberta in order to assess riparian intactness for 25,272
km of shoreline in Alberta. The land cover was developed from 44 separate supervised random forest
classifications of 41 different SPOT6 6m imagery tiles from 2017/2018 and was then clipped to a 50 m buffer
around waterbodies of interest. The full classification is composed of 41 individual polygon files, each of
which corresponds to the original SPOT tile that the classification was performed on. Details on the
individual SPOT tiles is available in the accompanying report. Two data products are available from this
project: Wall to Wall Land Cover (available in TIFF and FGDB formats) and Shoreline Buffer (available in
TIFF format). Please see the Distribution Information to obtain the data products.
Purpose:
The overall goal of this project was to develop two land cover products: 1) a large-scale, high thematic
resolution land cover layer that covers the areas of the North Saskatchewan and Battle River watersheds that
are outside the mountain parks, as well as a select number of adjoining municipalities; 2) a
high-resolution, low thematic resolution land cover layer for areas within a 50 m buffer of selected streams
and lakes within the North Saskatchewan and Battle River watersheds, which will be used to assess riparian
intactness along the shorelines of interest.
Credit:
Fiera Biological Consulting Ltd. with the North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance and the Battle River Watershed
Alliance
Status:
Progress code:
completed
Point of contact:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta
Position name:
Lands Planning Branch, Lands Division
Contact info:
Contact:
Address:
Address:
Delivery point:
3rd Floor, South Petroleum Plaza
Delivery point:
9915 108 Street
City:
Edmonton
Administrative area:
Alberta
Postal code:
T5K 2G8
Country:
Country:
CA
Electronic mail address:
AEP.Planning@gov.ab.ca
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Resource maintenance:
Maintenance information:
Maintenance and update frequency:
Maintenance frequency code:
asNeeded
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Keyword:
Alberta, Canada
Keyword:
North Saskatchewan River
Keyword:
Battle River
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place
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Keyword:
Riparian Intactness
Keyword:
Riparian Management Areas
Keyword:
SPOT6
Keyword:
SPOT7
Keyword:
Land Use
Keyword:
Land Cover
Keyword:
Battle River Watershed
Keyword:
North Saskatchwan River Watershed
Keyword:
Wall to Wall Land Cover
Keyword:
Shoreline Buffer
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Your use of this information will be governed by the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta, in
force as of the date you accessed the information, found at https://open.alberta.ca/licence
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liabilities, whether express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law. The Information
Provider is not liable for any errors or omissions in the Information, and will not under any
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injury or damage caused by its use or otherwise arising in connection with this licence or the
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Public/Unrestricted
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Government of Alberta Data and Information Security Classification
Handling description:
https://imtpolicy.sp.alberta.ca/standards/pdf/Data-and-Information-Security-Classification-Standard.pdf
Aggregation Info:
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Aggregate Data Set Name:
Citation:
Title:
Creation of a Land Cover Dataset for the North Saskatchewan & Battle River Watersheds Final Report
Alternate title:
NSWA BRWA Land Cover Project Final Report
Date:
Date:
Date:
2021-05-01
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Supplemental Information:
The study area covers 111,429 km squared across Central Alberta, and is expansive, covering approximately 17%
of the province. Specifically, the study area included major portions of the North Saskatchewan River
watershed located outside of the mountain parks and the full extent of the Battle River watershed (in
addition to a number of rural municipalities that intersected each river basin, but also extended beyond the
boundaries of the watershed). The study area has an extensive hydrological network that flows across varied
landscapes, through the Rocky Mountain, Grassland, Boreal, Parkland, and Grassland Natural Regions. The
large-scale, high thematic resolution land cover (i.e., wall to wall land cover) covers the entire study
area, while the high-resolution, low thematic resolution land cover layer is only associated with a 50 m
buffer around streams and lakes within the study area that were selected to be assessed for riparian
intactness (Figure 1). The buffer land cover is associated with 25,272 km of shoreline and covers an area of
1,246 km squared.
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Image description:
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Distribution:
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Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta
Position name:
Provincial Geospatial Centre
Contact info:
Contact:
Phone:
Telephone:
Voice:
7804277374
Facsimile:
7804220712
Address:
Address:
Delivery point:
14th Floor, Oxbridge Place
Delivery point:
9820 - 106 Street NW
City:
Edmonton
Administrative area:
Alberta
Postal code:
T5K 2J6
Country:
Country:
CA
Electronic mail address:
AEP.Data@gov.ab.ca
Hours of service:
08:15 to 16:30, Monday to Friday
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URL:
https://extranet.gov.ab.ca/srd/geodiscover/srd_pub/environment/LandCover/W2WLandCover_FGDB.zip
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FTP
Name:
NSWA BRWA Wall to Wall Land Cover (FGDB)
Description:
FGDB containing polygon files for W2W Land Cover dataset
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FTP
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Function:
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URL:
https://extranet.gov.ab.ca/srd/geodiscover/srd_pub/environment/LandCover/ShorelineBuffer.zip
Protocol:
FTP
Name:
NSWA BRWA Shoreline Buffer Land Cover (TIFF)
Description:
Raster dataset for Shoreline Buffer Land Cover (ZIP)
Function:
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download
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MB
Transfer size:
2.5
Online:
Online Resource:
Linkage:
URL:
https://extranet.gov.ab.ca/srd/geodiscover/srd_pub/environment/LandCover/NSWA_BRWA_LandCover_FinalReport.pdf
Protocol:
FTP
Name:
NSWA BRWA Land Cover Project Final Report (PDF)
Description:
PDF containing NSWA BRWA Land Cover Project Final Report
Function:
Online function code:
download
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Data quality:
Scope:
Scope:
Hierarchy level:
Scope code:
dataset
Lineage:
Lineage:
Statement:
The North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance (NSWA) and Battle River Watershed Alliance (BRWA) engage in many
watershed assessment and management projects that require high-resolution spatial datasets. Since 2016,
the NSWA has commissioned a number of projects focused on assessing the condition of riparian areas, as
well as pressure on riparian system function. Through these projects, a new geospatial method was
created to assess riparian intactness at a watershed scale, and this method requires accurate and
relatively up to date land cover data. In order to expand the number of watersheds that can be assessed
for riparian intactness, a high-resolution land cover is required. While freely available and current
land cover layers exist, the resolution of those data (typically 30 m pixel size) are not sufficient for
assessing vegetation cover within riparian areas or providing land cover information that can be used
for other watershed analysis and management purposes. Thus, the NSWA and BRWA commissioned the creation
of a 6-meter pixel resolution land cover dataset that can be used to assess riparian area condition
throughout the North Saskatchewan and Battle River watersheds, as well as support other on-going land
use assessment and planning initiatives. Using SPOT 6/7 6 m imagery supplied by the Government of
Alberta, Fiera Biological Consulting created land cover data products at two scales.
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Maintenance information:
Maintenance and update frequency:
Maintenance frequency code:
asNeeded
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