Annual Crop Inventory 2016

Annual Crop Inventory 2016 In 2016, the Earth Observation Team of the Science and Technology Branch (STB) at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) repeated the process of generating annual crop inventory digital maps using satellite imagery to for all of Canada, in support of a national crop inventory. A Decision Tree (DT) based methodology was applied using optical (Landsat-8, Sentinel-2, Gaofen-1) and radar (RADARSAT-2) based satellite images, and having a final spatial resolution of 30m. In conjunction with satellite acquisitions, ground-truth information was provided by: provincial crop insurance companies in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, & Quebec; point observations from the BC Ministry of Agriculture, & the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs; and data collection supported by our regional AAFC Research and Development Centres in St. John’s, Kentville, Charlottetown, Fredericton, Guelph, and Summerland. 2023-02-23 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada agri-geomatics-agrog@agr.gc.ca AgricultureCrop insuranceAgricultureSatellitesCropsFarmlandsForage crops Pre-packaged GeoTIF files (No linguistic component)GeoTIF https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/annualCropInventory/data_donnees/tif/2016/ Data Product Specification (English)PDF https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/annualCropInventory/supportdocument_documentdesupport/en/ISO%2019131_AAFC_Annual_Crop_Inventory_Data_Product_Specifications.pdf Data Product Specification (French)PDF https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/annualCropInventory/supportdocument_documentdesupport/fr/Inventaire_annuel_des_cultures_d_AAC_Specifications_de_contenu_informationnel_produites_conformement_a_la_norme_ISO_19131.pdf Crop classificationsCSV https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/annualCropInventory/supportdocument_documentdesupport/aci_crop_classifications_iac_classifications_des_cultures.csv Annual Crop Inventory (English)HTML https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/aci Annual Crop Inventory (French)HTML https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/iac Annual Crop Inventory 2016ESRI REST https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/rest/services/imageservices/annual_crop_inventory_2016/ImageServer Annual Crop Inventory 2016ESRI REST https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/rest/services/servicesimage/inventaire_des_cultures_2016/ImageServer Annual Crop Inventory 2016WMS https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/services/imageservices/annual_crop_inventory_2016/ImageServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&layers=0&legend_format=image/png Annual Crop Inventory 2016WMS https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/services/servicesimage/inventaire_des_cultures_2016/ImageServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&layers=0&legend_format=image/png

In 2016, the Earth Observation Team of the Science and Technology Branch (STB) at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) repeated the process of generating annual crop inventory digital maps using satellite imagery to for all of Canada, in support of a national crop inventory. A Decision Tree (DT) based methodology was applied using optical (Landsat-8, Sentinel-2, Gaofen-1) and radar (RADARSAT-2) based satellite images, and having a final spatial resolution of 30m. In conjunction with satellite acquisitions, ground-truth information was provided by: provincial crop insurance companies in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, & Quebec; point observations from the BC Ministry of Agriculture, & the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs; and data collection supported by our regional AAFC Research and Development Centres in St. John’s, Kentville, Charlottetown, Fredericton, Guelph, and Summerland.

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