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Understanding Canada’s land from space
Mapping products derived from satellite imagery depict Canada’s vast landscapes, including land cover, water resources, snow and ice extent, vegetation cover indicators and more.
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About Earth Observation mapping
Satellites play a crucial role in mapping Canada’s diverse and vast landscapes. They deliver consistent, reliable, high-quality, and detailed observations. Advanced radar and optical imaging technologies enable accurate and efficient mapping of the country’s landmass.
Satellite-based mapping improves our understanding of Canada’s environment and supports evidence-based decision-making. They are used for impact assessments, monitoring environmental changes and managing emergencies like floods and wildfires.
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Land Cover Canada
Unravel Canada’s land cover changes with the Land Cover of Canada map. Explore land cover changes between 2010, 2015 and 2020.
Canada’s Evapotranspiration and Evaporation
Explore land surface evapotranspiration and water surface evaporation over Canada’s landmass.
Canadian Wetland Inventory
This is the third-generation high resolution wetland inventory map of Canada. It was produced using multi-year imagery between 2016 and 2020.
Dataset gallery
All Data
We have found 13 records.
Monthly Leaf Area Index
National scale coverage of monthly maps of the maximum Leaf Area Index (LAI) during a growing season at 20m resolution.
Monthly fraction of vegetation cover
Monthly maps during a growing season at 20m resolution. FCOVER corresponds to the amount of ground surface that is covered by vegetation.
Fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation
This product provides national scale coverage of monthly maps during a growing season at 20m resolution.
Canada Land Cover collection
A collection of cartographic Land Cover products for Canada produced using Landsat satellite imagery.
Snow and ice probability
Annual minimum snow and ice (MSI) probability was derived from MODIS imagery for each year since 2000.
Minimum snow and ice extent
A time-series of the annual minimum snow and ice extent (MSI). The datasets contain annual data from 2000 to present.
Inland water bodies map of Canada and neighbouring regions
A map of inland water bodies in Canada and neighbouring regions. The data are mapped at a spatial resolution of 250 metres.
Land surface evapotranspiration
Land surface evapotranspiration over Canada’s landmass at a spatial resolution of 5 kilometres.
Water surface evaporation
Water surface evaporation over Canada’s landmass at a spatial resolution of 10 kilometres.
RADARSAT Constellation Mission national land mosaic
A 30-metre resolution radar mosaic of Canada’s landmass from the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM).
Canadian Wetland Inventory
The third generation of high resolution 10 metre wetland inventory map of Canada. using 2016 to 2020 imagery.
Peak season Leaf Area Index
Annual maps of the maximum Leaf Area Index during a growing season at 100m resolution covering Canada's land mass.
Peak season fraction of vegetation cover
This product consists of the Fraction vegetation cover (FCOVER) indicator during peak-season at 100m resolution covering Canada's land mass.
