Bas-Saint-Laurent : Land cover mapping of the St. Lawrence Lowlands

Since 1988, the governments of Canada and Quebec have been working together to conserve, restore, protect and develop the St. Lawrence River under the St. Lawrence Action Plan (SLAP). One of the projects identified under the theme of biodiversity conservation is the development of an integrated plan for the conservation of the natural environments and biodiversity of the St. Lawrence River.


The identification of priority sites for conservation has been the first step of this planning exercise. Conservation planning of natural environments requires a reliable, accurate and up-to-date image of the spatial distribution of ecosystems in the study area. In order to produce an Atlas of Priority Sites for Conservation in the St. Lawrence Lowlands, an updated cartography of the land cover of this vast territory was undertaken.


This project required obtaining reliable information on the natural environments of the St. Lawrence Lowlands. Although several land cover mapping projects have been conducted for specific types of habitats, it was particularly important to obtain a homogeneous product that would cover the entire territory and that would provide the most detailed information on its various thematic components: agricultural, aquatic, human-modified and forest environments, wetlands as well as old fields and bare ground. The methodology used to produce the land cover mapping of the St. Lawrence Lowlands thus relied mainly on combining and enhancing the best existing products for each theme. This project was made in collaboration with MDDELCC as part of the St. Lawrence Action Plan (SLAP).


This dataset includes land cover polygons within a 10 km radius of the Bas-Saint-Laurent administrative region within the St. Lawrence Lowlands.

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Metadata Record Information

File Identifier
3b2a5163-fdb2-43c6-b570-1e462156c5f2 XML
Date Stamp
2022-06-29T19:36:47
Metadata language

fra; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Dataset
Author
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Inquiry Centre )
10 Wellington, 23rd Floor , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 ,
1-800-668-6767
https://www.canada.ca/fr/environnement-changement-climatique.html
 

Data identification

Date (Publication)
2018-07-06
Date (Creation)
2014-09-15
Status
Completed
Metadata language

fra
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Not planned
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Point of contact
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Wildlife Service - Matthieu Allard ( Habitat Conservation Specialist )
Québec , Canada

Keywords

Theme

  • Wetland

  • Open water

  • Agricultural environment

  • Forest environment

  • Old field

  • Bare ground

  • Human-modified environment
Place

  • St. Lawrence Lowlands
Product

  • Land cover

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Cartography

ECCC Information Category EN

  • Nature and Biodiversity - Habitat

Geography

  • Quebec (QC)

Business Functions

  • Oversee and Manage Site Conditions

  • Information Systems for Site Conditions

Branch

  • Environmental Stewardship Branch

Directorate

  • Canadian Wildlife Service

GC Security Level

  • Unclassified
 
Use Limitation

Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada )

Access Constraints
License
Use Constraints
License
Begin Date
2014-09-15
End Date
2017-09-15

Extent

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Ref. system Reference Systems

Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
 

Distribution

Distribution Formats

Distribution format
  • FGDB/GDB ( 10.2 )

 
Distributor
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environnement et Changement climatique Canada ( Inquiry Centre )
10 Wellington, 23rd Floor , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 ,
1-800-668-6767
 
 

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Keywords

Agricultural environment Bare ground Forest environment Human-modified environment Land cover Old field Open water St. Lawrence Lowlands Wetland
Branch
Environmental Stewardship Branch
Business Functions
Information Systems for Site Conditions Oversee and Manage Site Conditions
Directorate
Canadian Wildlife Service
ECCC Information Category EN
Nature and Biodiversity - Habitat
GC Security Level
Unclassified
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Cartography

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