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The Saskatchewan Digital Land Cover was created to be used in the interim: GeoBase and the Canadian Land Cover Community of Practice have embarked on the National Land Cover Data Project, whose main objective is to integrate land cover mapping from provincial and federal organizations and to produce a harmonized database that is consistent with international standards in order to meet the broadest range of user needs. The National Land Cover Project plans to integrate existing land cover information compiled by Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada into a single product for Canadians. |
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The Saskatchewan Digital Land Cover was created to be used in the interim: GeoBase and the Canadian Land Cover Community of Practice have embarked on the National Land Cover Data Project, whose main objective is to integrate land cover mapping from provincial and federal organizations and to produce a harmonized database that is consistent with international standards in order to meet the broadest range of user needs. The National Land Cover Project plans to integrate existing land cover information compiled by Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada into a single product for Canadians. |
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SRC created the original North and South Digital Land Covers. |
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The Saskatchewan Digital Land Cover raster provides a seamless provincial coverage of the province and was created by combining the Saskatchewan Research Council's Northern Digital Land Cover (NDLC) with the Southern Digital Land Cover (SDLC) - See enclosures for complete metadata on these datasets. With exception to the SDLC's value 2 (i.e. Hay Crops) and value 3 (i.e. Native Dominant Grass Lands), the NDLC takes precedence over the SDLC in areas that the two rasters overlap because the NDLC is more current than the dated SDLC. The SDLC's values 2 and 3 were preserved because these land covers are not specifically represented in the NDLC. For the purpose of this dataset, some of the SDLC and NDLC values were reclassified to new values to reconcile varying definitions (i.e. See the Supplementary Information section below for a complete list of image classes with detailed descriptions). A unique colormap was created for this dataset. It should also be noted that because the NDLC's 30 x 30 meter pixels do not align with the SDLC's 30 x 30 meter pixels, this raster was snapped to the NDLC. Last, as is with the SDLC and the NDLC, the extent of this raster does not extend all of the way to the Saskatchewan boundary, specifically, the Information Services Corporation's SaskGIS Provincial Boundary dataset, in numerous areas along the west, south and southeast borders: There are gaps of up to 500m wide of "no data" between the provincial boundary and the raster along these areas of the Saskatchewan boundary. |
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varies between the NDLC and the SDLC (i.e. see enclosures) |
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["CLASSIFIED SATELLITE IMAGERY","LAND COVER","SASKATCHEWAN","LANDSAT","FORESTRY","AGRICULTURE","2000","Imagery","base maps","and land cover","Saskatchewan","Landcover"] |
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