Abstract: The Cold Lake oil sands area - Township 56 to 69, Range 1 to 11, west of the 4th Meridian, falls within the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan (LARP). As part of Alberta’s Land-use Framework, LARP was developed in 2012 to set the stage for robust growth, vibrant communities and a healthy environment within the region. One of its implementation objectives is to balance the economic development of oil sands and impacts on the ecosystem and environment. This is to be achieved through enhanced science-based monitoring for improved characterization of the environment and to collect the information necessary to understand cumulative effects. Landsat multispectral imagery for 2008 and 2009 and Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) classification data derived from 2009 were used to produce this dataset. The LULC changes include vegetation loss from anthropogenic disturbances, such as infrastructure related to oil and gas exploration, forestry and agriculture, and vegetation recovery from these disturbances. This digital data release contains the vegetation recovery data from 2008 to 2009, classified into 6 classes: 1 - shrub land, 2 - grassland, 3 - agricultural areas, 4 - coniferous forest, 5 - broadleaf forest and 6 - mixed forest.
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Alberta
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Citation:
Citation:
Title:
Annual Vegetation Recovery Classification Results in the Cold Lake Oil Sands Area Derived from 2008-2009
Landsat Imagery (Image data, Tiff format)
Date:
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Date:
2015-01-01
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Chowdhury, S.
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Abstract:
The Cold Lake oil sands area - Township 56 to 69, Range 1 to 11, west of the 4th Meridian, falls within the
Lower Athabasca Regional Plan (LARP). As part of Alberta’s Land-use Framework, LARP was developed in 2012 to
set the stage for robust growth, vibrant communities and a healthy environment within the region. One of its
implementation objectives is to balance the economic development of oil sands and impacts on the ecosystem
and environment. This is to be achieved through enhanced science-based monitoring for improved
characterization of the environment and to collect the information necessary to understand cumulative
effects. Landsat multispectral imagery for 2008 and 2009 and Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) classification
data derived from 2009 were used to produce this dataset. The LULC changes include vegetation loss from
anthropogenic disturbances, such as infrastructure related to oil and gas exploration, forestry and
agriculture, and vegetation recovery from these disturbances. This digital data release contains the
vegetation recovery data from 2008 to 2009, classified into 6 classes: 1 - shrub land, 2 - grassland, 3 -
agricultural areas, 4 - coniferous forest, 5 - broadleaf forest and 6 - mixed forest.
Purpose:
To document vegetation recovery between 2008 and 2009 to assist oil and gas regulatory tasks in the Cold Lake
area
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Alberta Geological Survey
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(780) 638-4491
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(780) 422-1918
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Alberta Energy Regulator
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4th Floor, Twin Atria Building
Delivery point:
4999-98 Avenue NW
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Edmonton
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Alberta
Postal code:
T6B 2X3
Country:
Canada
Electronic mail address:
AGS-Info@aer.ca
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classification
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gis data
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oil sand
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remote sensing
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vegetation
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Access Constraints: Public Use Constraints: Acknowledgement of the Alberta Energy Regulator/Alberta
Geological Survey as the originator/source of this information is required as described in the Open
Government License - Alberta. Distribution Liability: The Alberta Energy Regulator/Alberta Geological
Survey (AER/AGS) licenses this information under the Open Government License - Alberta. Any references
to proprietary software in our documentation, and/or any use of proprietary data formats in our
releases, do not constitute endorsement by the AER/AGS of any manufacturer's product.
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Land-use/Land-cover Classifications of the Cold Lake Oil Sands Area Derived from 2008 Landsat Imagery
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Annual Land Disturbance Classification Results in the Cold Lake Oil Sands Area Derived from 2008-2009
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Quality Evaluation Dataset of the Cold Lake Oil Sands Area Derived from 2008 Landsat Imagery (Image
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Supplemental Information:
Language: In English;
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Alberta Geological Survey
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AGS Information Manager
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(780) 638-4491
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(780) 422-1918
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Alberta Energy Regulator
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4th Floor, Twin Atria Building
Delivery point:
4999-98 Avenue NW
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Edmonton
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Alberta
Postal code:
T6B 2X3
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Canada
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AGS-Info@aer.ca
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Evaluation method description:
All pixels in the draft pre-release Landsat Best Available Pixel (BAP) composite data, obtained from the
Natural Resources Canada Pacific Forestry Centre, were used for image analysis. Every pixel in the
raster grid is classified to a certain class, except for the pixels with the presence of sensor noise or
thick cloud. Pixels with sensor noise or thick cloud and pixels outside the study area were assigned to
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All pixels in the draft pre-release Landsat Best Available Pixel (BAP) composite data, obtained from the
Natural Resources Canada Pacific Forestry Centre, were used for image analysis. Every pixel in the
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thick cloud. Pixels with sensor noise or thick cloud and pixels outside the study area were assigned to
an unclassified class with ‘0’ value.
Process step:
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Process steps performed in ENVI 5.1 to produce this vegetation recovery classification dataset:
1. Pre-release versions of annual Landsat Best Available Pixel Composite (LBAPC) datasets (1984 to 2012) were obtained from the Natural Resources Canada/Pacific Forestry Centre for testing purposes. Of these, the 2008 and 2009 LBAPC datasets were used to produce this vegetation recovery result.
2. Normalized Difference Built-up Index (NDBI) datasets were produced from the 2008 and 2009 LBAPC datasets.
3. The simple difference based change detection method was applied to the 2008 and 2009 NDBI results using 2008 as the initial state and 2009 as the final state. The change detection result contains classes ranked from 0 to 21, where lower numbers indicate a strong negative change and higher numbers indicate a strong positive change. Intermediate values indicate little to no change.
4. The net vegetation recovery result was derived from negative changes by manually setting the threshold for those pixels in the 5 to 10 range to 1. This threshold was selected to eliminate false negative changes associated with cloud, haze, cloud shadow, and noise.
Date and time:
2015-01-01T00:00:00
Process step:
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Description:
Updated coordinate reference system datum to corporate standard, NAD83.
Date and time:
2016-01-01T00:00:00
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Source Contribution: Provides vegetative recovery classification classes.online
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Citation:
Title:
Land-use/Land-cover Classifications of the Cold Lake Oil Sands Area Derived from 2009 Landsat
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DIG 2015-0067
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Chao, D.K.
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Chowdhury, S.
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Ground condition
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2009-01-01
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Maintenance information:
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Maintenance note:
This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
Metadatastandard version FGDC-STD-001-1998 using the January 2013 version of the FGDC CSDGM to ISO 19115-2
transform.
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Organisation name:
Alberta Geological Survey
Position name:
AGS Information Manager
Contact info:
Contact:
Phone:
Telephone:
Voice:
(780) 638-4491
Facsimile:
(780) 422-1918
Address:
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Alberta Energy Regulator
Delivery point:
4th Floor, Twin Atria Building
Delivery point:
4999-98 Avenue NW
City:
Edmonton
Administrative area:
Alberta
Postal code:
T6B 2X3
Country:
Canada
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AGS-Info@aer.ca
Hours of service:
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Role:
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