Abstract: This is a linear disturbance dataset for the Upper North Saskatchewan and Upper Red Deer River Basins of Alberta. This dataset was created to support spatial analyses of linear disturbances in the Upper North Saskatchewan and Upper Red Deer River Basins for the Alberta Environment and Parks report entitled “Ecological response to land use and human activities in the eastern slopes of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains: A scientific assessment”. This is a polyline dataset covering the Upper North Saskatchewan and Upper Red Deer River Basins of Alberta, Canada. It shows linear features present in ~2016/2017. Linear disturbances are grouped into five categories using attribution from input data sources. These include: paved roads; gravel roads; unimproved roads, unclassified roads, and truck trails; pipelines and powerlines; and cutlines and trails.The dataset compiles information from five of the most current Government of Alberta and public linear disturbance data sources: these are: Alberta Base Features (AB BF) (Alberta Environment and Parks, 2018), 2017 Red Deer – North Saskatchewan Trail data (RDNS Regional Informatics Unit, Alberta Environment and Parks, November 2017), 2017 Pipeline data (Ecosystem Services and Science Section, Alberta Environment and Parks March 2018), Jasper National Park Official Trails, and Banff National Park Official Trails (obtained from geomatics coordinators for each National Park, July 2018 and available through the Government of Canada Open data license agreement). Please note: this legacy dataset will not be updated. For questions regarding the data, please contact AEP.Data@gov.ab.ca.
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Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta
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Science Branch, Environmental Monitoring and Science Division
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9888 Jasper Avenue NW; 10th Floor
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Edmonton
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Alberta
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T5J5C6
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CA
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0815 - 1630, Monday to Friday
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2018-08-16
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EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry
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OGP Geomatics Committee
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Data identification:
Citation:
Citation:
Title:
Upper North Saskatchewan and Upper Red Deer River Basin Linear Disturbance
Date:
Date:
Date:
2018-07-16
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2018-07-27
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publication
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Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta
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Science Branch, Environmental Monitoring and Science Division
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Delivery point:
9888 Jasper Avenue NW; 10th Floor
City:
Edmonton
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Alberta
Postal code:
T5J5C6
Country:
Country:
CA
Hours of service:
0815 - 1630, Monday to Friday
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publisher
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Abstract:
This is a linear disturbance dataset for the Upper North Saskatchewan and Upper Red Deer River Basins of
Alberta. This dataset was created to support spatial analyses of linear disturbances in the Upper North
Saskatchewan and Upper Red Deer River Basins for the Alberta Environment and Parks report entitled
“Ecological response to land use and human activities in the eastern slopes of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains: A
scientific assessment”. This is a polyline dataset covering the Upper North Saskatchewan and Upper Red Deer
River Basins of Alberta, Canada. It shows linear features present in ~2016/2017. Linear disturbances are
grouped into five categories using attribution from input data sources. These include: paved roads; gravel
roads; unimproved roads, unclassified roads, and truck trails; pipelines and powerlines; and cutlines and
trails.The dataset compiles information from five of the most current Government of Alberta and public
linear disturbance data sources: these are: Alberta Base Features (AB BF) (Alberta Environment and Parks,
2018), 2017 Red Deer – North Saskatchewan Trail data (RDNS Regional Informatics Unit, Alberta Environment
and Parks, November 2017), 2017 Pipeline data (Ecosystem Services and Science Section, Alberta Environment
and Parks March 2018), Jasper National Park Official Trails, and Banff National Park Official Trails
(obtained from geomatics coordinators for each National Park, July 2018 and available through the Government
of Canada Open data license agreement). Please note: this legacy dataset will not be updated. For questions
regarding the data, please contact AEP.Data@gov.ab.ca.
Purpose:
This dataset was created to support spatial analyses of linear disturbances in the Upper North Saskatchewan
and Upper Red Deer River Basins region for the Alberta Environment and Parks report entitled “Ecological
response to land use and human activities in the eastern slopes of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains: A scientific
assessment” available at: https://open.alberta.ca/publications/9781460140697. This report provides an
objective review and synthesis of published scientific data and information of relevance in examining the
environmental impacts associated with human activities Upper North Saskatchewan and Upper Red Deer River
Basins, Alberta, Canada.
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completed
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Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta
Position name:
Science Branch, Environmental Monitoring and Science Division
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Address:
Delivery point:
9888 Jasper Avenue NW; 10th Floor
City:
Edmonton
Administrative area:
Alberta
Postal code:
T5J5C6
Country:
Country:
CA
Hours of service:
0815 - 1630, Monday to Friday
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publisher
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notPlanned
Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:
Keyword:
Bighorn Backcountry, Alberta, Rocky Mountains
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place
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transportation, linear disturbance, linear footprint, roads, trails, access, anthropogenic, human footprint
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Downloadable Data
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PUBLIC under the Government of Alberta Data and Information Security Classification
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Citation:
Title:
Ecological response to land use and human activities in the eastern slopes of Alberta’s Rocky
Mountains: A scientific assessment
Date:
Date:
Date:
2018-08-20
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publication
Cited responsible party:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta
Position name:
Science Branch, Environmental Monitoring and Science Division
Contact info:
Contact:
Address:
Address:
Delivery point:
9888 Jasper Avenue NW; 10th Floor
City:
Edmonton
Administrative area:
Alberta
Postal code:
T5J5C6
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CA
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0815 - 1630, Monday to Friday
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transportation
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biota
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economy
Environment description:
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Extent:
Extent:
Description:
The extent of this dataset includes the Upper North Saskatchewan and Upper Red Deer River Basins, Alberta,
as described in “Land use, climate change and ecological responses in the Upper North Saskatchewan and
Upper Red Deer River Basins: A scientific assessment”, available at:
https://open.alberta.ca/publications/9781460140697.
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2016-01-01T00:00:00
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2017-01-01T00:00:00
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Organisation name:
Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta
Position name:
Science Branch, Environmental Monitoring and Science Division
Contact info:
Contact:
Address:
Address:
Delivery point:
9888 Jasper Avenue NW; 10th Floor
City:
Edmonton
Administrative area:
Alberta
Postal code:
T5J5C6
Country:
Country:
CA
Hours of service:
0815 - 1630, Monday to Friday
Contact instructions:
Please note: this legacy dataset will not be updated. For questions regarding the data, please
contact AEP.Data@gov.ab.ca.
Role:
Role code:
publisher
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Transfer size:
5.4
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URL:
https://extranet.gov.ab.ca/srd/geodiscover/srd_pub/environment/EMSD/UNSRRDR_LinDist.gdb.zip
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Description:
File Geodatase of Linear disturbances in the Upper North Saskatchewan and Upper Red Deer River Basins
Function:
Online function code:
download
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Data quality:
Scope:
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dataset
Lineage:
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Statement:
The dataset compiles information from five of the most current Government of Alberta and public linear
disturbance data sources: these are: Alberta Base Features (AB BF) (Alberta Environment and Parks,
2018), 2017 Red Deer – North Saskatchewan Trail data (RDNS Regional Informatics Unit, Alberta
Environment and Parks, November 2017), 2017 Pipeline data (Ecosystem Services and Science Section,
Alberta Environment and Parks March 2018), Jasper National Park Official Trails, and Banff National Park
Official Trails (obtained from geomatics coordinators for each National Park, July 2018 and available
through the Government of Canada Open data license agreement).
Process step:
Process step:
Description:
The linear disturbance dataset for Upper North Saskatchewan and Upper Red Deer River Basins was based
primarily on the Alberta Base Features (AB BF) dataset (Alberta Environment and Parks, 2018a) which
was supplemented with four additional datasets: 2017 Red Deer – North Saskatchewan Trail data
(Government of Alberta Red Deer North Saskatchewan Regional Informatics Unit, 2017), 2017 Pipeline
data (Alberta EP 2018); Jasper National Park Official Trails (2017); Banff National Park Official
Trails (2017). Trial data for the National Parks were obtained from the geomatics coordinators for
each both Banff and Jasper National Park (July 2018) and are available through the Government of
Canada Open data license agreement. Four datasets from the Alberta Base Features were used to
calculate linear disturbance density: Roads, Railway, Powerline, and Cutline trails. Using the Roads
dataset, three linear feature categories were derived by splitting roads into three category types:
Paved, Gravel and Unimproved/Unclassified/Truck trails. The paved roads class includes the
subcategories: divided paved roads, 1, 2, and 4-lane undivided paved roads, and interchange ramps.
The gravel roads class includes the subcategories 1 and 2 lane gravel roads. The
unimproved/unclassified/truck trails category includes the subcategories: unimproved roads,
truck/trails, winter roads and ford/winter crossings, and driveways. Power lines were merged into a
single feature class with the 2017 pipelines dataset and dissolved to remove duplicate features. A
new cutline/trails class was created by consolidating the Cutline/Trails category from the AB BF
data with the 2017 recreational trails data obtained for the Red Deer – North Saskatchewan region as
well as the Banff and Jasper National Parks Official Trails. To ensure no duplicate lines were
retained, the recreational trails layer was first erased by the cutline trails layer and then again
by the roads layer using a 30 m cluster tolerance. The twice-erased recreational trails layer was
then merged with the original AB BF cutline/trails layer and dissolved to remove any remaining
duplicate features to create the final ‘cutline/trails’ layer. For further details see “Ecological
response to land use and human activities in the eastern slopes of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains: A
scientific assessment”.
Date and time:
2018-07-16T00:00:00
Processor:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta
Position name:
Science Branch, Environmental Monitoring and Science Division
Contact info:
Contact:
Address:
Address:
Delivery point:
9888 Jasper Avenue NW; 10th Floor
City:
Edmonton
Administrative area:
Alberta
Postal code:
T5J5C6
Country:
Country:
CA
Hours of service:
0815 - 1630, Monday to Friday
Role:
Role code:
publisher
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Maintenance information:
Maintenance and update frequency:
Maintenance frequency code:
notPlanned
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