Contains footprint of only anthropogenic disturbances, mapped as described in accompanying documentation, with a 500m radius buffer appied, but with 1970-2010 fire polygons incorporated, providing the total landscape disturbance footprint. Fire data was provided by individual provinces/jurisdictions. As part of a project that aimed at providing a scientific assessment of critical habitat for boreal woodland caribou (see Environment Canada 2011), Environment Canada’s Landscape Science and Technology Division was tasked with providing detailed anthropogenic disturbance mapping across known caribou ranges. The mapping process was established to create a nationally consistent, reliable and repeatable geospatial dataset that followed a common methodology. The methods developed were focused on mapping disturbances at a specific point of time, and were not designed to identify the age of disturbances, which can be of particular interest for disturbances that can be considered non-permanent, for example cutblocks. The type of analyses developed using the resultant datasets included caribou resource selection functions and habitat modelling.
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Anthropogenic and 40 Year Fire Disturbance Footprint
Additional Info
- Project: Anthropogenic Disturbance Footprint within Boreal Caribou Ranges across Canada - As Interpreted from 2008-2010 Landsat Satellite Imagery Updated to 2012 Range Boundaries
- Dataset Title: Anthropogenic and 40 Year Fire Disturbance Footprint
- Data Series: unknown
- Orginator: Environment Canada
- Institution Type: gov't - federal
- Author: see originator
- Distributor: data.gc.ca
- Reports: http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/virtual_sara/files/ri_boreal_caribou_science_0811_eng.pdf
- Data Type: GIS
- Délı̨nę District: yes
- K’asho Got’ı̨nę District: yes
- Tulı́t’a District: yes
- Time Period: 1970-2010
- Source Date: 2012
- Version: 2012
- Access Constraints: open download - no login
- Use Constraints: none
- Completion Status: complete
- Maintenance: annually
- Maintenance Frequency: annually
- Metadata Available: yes
- Metadata Contact: unknown
- Spatial Extent: NWT
- Traditional Knowledge: no
- Wildlife: yes
- Habitat: yes
- Keywords: anthropogenic; boreal; forest; caribou; habitat; landcover; disturbance; herd; range
- Data Category: vector
- Format: shp
- Feature Type: polygon
- Feature Count: 1
- Dataset Descriptive Name: BorealCaribouDisturbanceShapefiles_Updated2012
- File Name: NWT_Anthropogenic_and_40YrFire_Disturbance_Footprint.shp
- Scale: unknown
- Projection: Canada Albers Equal Area Conic
- Downloadable: yes
- Downloadable Format: zip
- See Also: 177, 178, 179
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