Description
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 2009 and 2010 and Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) classification data derived from 2010 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 2009 to 2010, 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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March 29, 2016
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Title and Dataset Information
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Annual Vegetation Recovery Classification Results in the Cold Lake Oil Sands Area Derived from 2009-2010 Landsat Imagery (Image data, Tiff format)
Date Modified
2016-03-29
Update Frequency
Irregular
Publisher / Creator Information
Publisher
Alberta Energy Regulator
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Spatial Coverage
Resource Dates
Date Created
2015-01-01
Date Added to catalogue
2020-04-30T04:10:54.817771
Date Issued
2015-01-01
Date Modified
2016-03-29
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Alberta Geological Survey