This dataset was created as part of Global Forest Watch Canada's project entitled "What is the Best of What's Left". The purpose was to map all of Canada's remaining intact forest landscape fragments larger than 5,000 hectares for the Boreal/Taiga ecozones and larger than 1,000 hectares for the temperate ecozones. An intact forest landscape is defined by Global Forest Watch Canada as a contiguous mosaic of naturally occurring ecosystems, including forest, bog, water, tundra, and rock outcrops, that is within a forest ecozone, and that is essentially undisturbed by significant human influence visible on Landsat satellite images. 1. Settlements (500m exclusion zone); 2. Infrastructure used for communication between settlements and industrial sites; or for industrial exploitation of natural resources (including roads, railways, navigable waterways, pipelines, trunk power transmission lines and other linear disturbances) (1000m exlusion zone for all major roads/highways and 500m exclusion zones for all other linear disturbances); 3. Agricultural lands (500m exclusion zone); 4. Territories disturbed by economic activities during the last 30-70 years (logging, major reservoirs, mining operation sites, abandoned agricultural lands, etc.) (500m exclusion zone); 5. Artificially restored forests, or tree plantations, if their existence can be detected on Landsat satellite imagery (500m exclusion zone). In addition to the disturbances listed above, large waterbodies (>400,000 ha) and waterbodies which represented more than half of a remaining intact forest landscape fragment were also eliminated from the dataset. In addition to the disturbances listed above, large waterbodies (>400,000 ha) and waterbodies which represented more than half of a remaining intact forest landscape fragment were also eliminated from the dataset.
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Canada's Intact Forest Landscapes
Additional Info
- Project: Canada's Intact Forest Landscapes
- Dataset Title: Canada's Intact Forest Landscapes
- Data Series: unknown
- Orginator: Global Forest Watch Canada
- Institution Type: independent
- Author: Global Forest Watch Canada
- Distributor: Global Forest Watch Canada
- Reports: http://www.globalforestwatch.ca/FLFs/GFWC-FLFs-firstapprox-300dpi.pdf
- Data Type: GIS
- Délı̨nę District: yes
- K’asho Got’ı̨nę District: yes
- Tulı́t’a District: yes
- Time Period: 1999 - 2006
- Source Date: 2010
- Version: NA
- Access Constraints: open download - no login
- Use Constraints: none
- Completion Status: complete
- Maintenance: no
- Maintenance Frequency: none planed
- Metadata Available: yes
- Metadata Contact: Matt Hanneman, Director of GIS and Remote Sensing, Global Forest Watch Canada; 780.422.5989, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Spatial Extent: Canada
- Traditional Knowledge: no
- Wildlife: no
- Habitat: yes
- Keywords: forest; tree
- Data Category: vector
- Format: shp
- Feature Type: polygon
- Feature Count: 9042
- Dataset Descriptive Name: Canada_IFL_2010
- File Name: Canada_IFL_2010.shp
- Scale: unknown
- Projection: Canada Lambert Conformal Conic
- Downloadable: yes
- Downloadable Format: zip
- See Also: 97
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