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Title: Canada Vegetation, 2006

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 2005

Publishers

  • GeoAccess Division, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada

Summary

Canada Vegetation is a raster theme representing percentages of tree cover throughout Canada at a resolution of 30 arc seconds. This layer is a component of the Global Map a 1:1,000,000 scale framework dataset of the world. It consists of vector and raster layers of transport, administrative boundaries, drainage, elevation, vegetation, land use and land cover data. The data were prepared from information provided by national mapping and other organizations worldwide.

Subjects

  • Canada
  • Biota
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-179.0, 0.0, 85.0, 40.0)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-179.0, 0.0, 85.0, 40.0)

Provider

Columbia

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

GeoAccess Division, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada, Geographical Survey Institute. Canada Vegetation, 2006. GeoAccess Division, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada. Raster data. https://geodata.library.columbia.edu/catalog/sde-columbia-iscgm_canada_2006_veg_rast

Format

GeoTIFF

Languages

  • English