Description
Alberta Satellite Land Cover (ASLC) raster is produced for Government of Alberta and is available to the general public. The ASLC Mosaic is a land cover dataset for the province of Alberta. It is a set of individual projects completed in the last decade for wildfire historical burns and various areas. As the remote sensing technology and related information extraction approaches have made significant advancements during last 20 years the process naturally evolved from classification schema targeting Landsat 5 to one integrating various sources of remote sensing data, information extraction procedures, different open and commercial toolboxes for processing and more automation. Integration of multiple data types includes various optical and radar data free of charge as well as GOA's purchased LiDAR data swaths. Since raster values in products from individual projects are identical with values of initial Alberta Ground Cover Classification product, it was possible to merge all those into new ASLC raster.
Updated
May 14, 2018
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Title and Dataset Information
Alternative Title
Alberta Satellite Land Cover
Date Modified
2018-05-14
Update Frequency
Every 2 months
Publisher / Creator Information
Publisher
Environment and Parks
Subject Information
Topic
Start Date
1999-01-01
End Date
2016-12-31
Spatial Coverage
Resource Dates
Date Created
2018-06-01
Date Added to catalogue
2020-04-30T04:12:32.645286
Date Issued
2018-06-01
Date Modified
2018-05-14
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Usage / Licence
Usage Considerations
The ASLC raster was originally created for Alberta Wildfire Management needs. It is being used as a source to update provincial Fire Behaviour Potential (FBP) forest fuel types data in the areas where Alberta Vegetation Inventory is outdated or non-existent.
Contact
Contact Name
Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, Government of Alberta