Natural Resources Canada

66 datasets found
  • Open Data

    High Resolution Digital Elevation Model (HRDEM) - CanElevation Series

    The High Resolution Digital Elevation Model (HRDEM) product is derived from airborne LiDAR data (mainly in the south) and satellite images in the north. The complete coverage of the Canadian territory is gradually being established. It includes a Digital Terrain Model (DTM), a Digital Surface...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • GeoTIF
    • PDF
    • JSON
    • SHP
    • KMZ
    • HTML
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board - Oil and Gas Activity

    The dataset contains the digital boundaries for significant discovery licences, production licences, drilled wells, major pipelines and the jurisdictional boundary of the area administered by the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB), as well as the inactive Georges Bank permits...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • SHP
    • CSV
    • PDF
    • ESRI REST
    • FGDB/GDB
  • Open Data

    Southern Ontario Surficial 3D Model

    To support improved groundwater geoscience knowledge for southern Ontario, a regional 3-D model of the surficial geology of southern Ontario has been developed as a part of a collaboration between the Ontario Geological Survey and the Geological Survey of Canada. Covering approximately 66,870...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • DXF
    • SHP
  • Open Data

    The Canadian Ecumene (CanEcumene) 3.0 GIS Database

    “Ecumene” is a term used by geographers, meaning “inhabited lands.” Populated places in the ecumene database are referenced using natural boundaries, as opposed to administrative or census boundaries, and provide a more suitable means for integrating socio-economic data with ecological and...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • SHP
    • WMS
    • TIFF
    • PDF
    • MXD
    • ESRI REST
    • FGDB/GDB
  • Open Data

    Critical minerals advanced projects, mines and processing facilities in Canada

    This dataset contains primary processing facilities (e.g., smelters and refineries), mines and advanced projects related to Canada’s 31 critical minerals. Advanced projects are those with mineral reserves or resources (measured or indicated), the potential viability of which is supported by a...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • HTML
    • FGDB/GDB
    • MXD
    • SHP
  • Open Data

    Hydrocarbon resource assessment of Nares Strait and central Ellesmere Island, Nunavut

    GIS compilation of data used to perform the stacked cumulative chance of success (resource potential map) in Open file 9163. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has been tasked, under the Marine Conservation Targets (MCT) initiative announced in Budget 2016, with evaluating the petroleum resource...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
    • ESRI REST
    • FGDB/GDB
    • MXD
    • SHP
    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • XML
    • WMS
  • Open Data

    Principal Mineral Areas, Producing Mines, and Oil and Gas Fields (900A)

    This dataset is produced and published annually by Natural Resources Canada. It contains a variety of statistics on Canada’s mineral production, and provides the geographic locations of significant metallic, nonmetallic and coal mines, oil sands mines, selected metallurgical works and gas fields...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • HTML
    • FGDB/GDB
    • MXD
    • SHP
    • PDF
  • Open Data

    Floods in Canada - Archive

    Flood extent polygons and their footprints representing floods from previous years throughout Canada as monitored by Natural Resources Canada using satellite imagery for emergency response. In response to large flood events, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), for the provision of emergency...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • FGDB/GDB
    • SHP
    • KMZ
    • ESRI REST
    • PDF
    • WMS
  • Open Data

    Floods in Canada - Current Year

    Flood extent polygons for the past three months throughout Canada as monitored by Natural Resources Canada using satellite imagery for emergency response. In response to large flood events, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), for the provision of emergency geomatics services, may be activated...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • WMS
    • ESRI REST
    • SHP
    • KMZ
    • FGDB/GDB
    • PDF
  • Open Data

    Active Floods in Canada

    Flood extent polygons representing active floods (last three days) throughout Canada as monitored by Natural Resources Canada using satellite imagery for emergency response. In response to large flood events, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), for the provision of emergency geomatics...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • KMZ
    • SHP
    • WMS
    • FGDB/GDB
    • PDF
  • Open Data

    Dataset of Open Water Areas in River Ice for Provinces of Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes - Potential Locations for River Hydrokinetic...

    Locations of open water within river ice in Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes were discerned manually using publicly accessible optical satellite images spanning from 2013 to 2020. This initial effort has led to a dataset pinpointing potential sites for river hydrokinetic energy...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • FGDB/GDB
    • SHP
  • Open Data

    Hydrokinetic Resource Assessment: Open Water Regions in Ice-Covered Rivers for Off-grid Diesel-Reliant Communities

    This dataset uses RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite images to identify open water regions within ice-covered rivers during winter, with the aim to assess hydrokinetic resources near remote communities reliant on diesel fuel for electricity generation....
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • FGDB/GDB
    • SHP
  • Open Data

    Regional and Community Vitality Index

    The RVI/CVI database is derived from the CanEcumene 3.0 GDB (Eddy, et. al. 2023) using a selection of socio-economic variables identified in Eddy and Dort (2011) that aim to capture the overall state of socio-economic conditions of communities as ‘human habitats’. This dataset was developed...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • MXD
    • TIFF
    • SHP
    • PDF
    • FGDB/GDB
    • XLS
    • WMS
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    National Deforestation Monitoring System (NDMS)

    Deforestation in Canada is estimated with the National Deforestation Monitoring System (NDMS). Details describing this process are published here: https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/publications?id=36042. Deforestation is the direct human-induced conversion of forested land to non-forested land use....
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • XLSX
    • SHP
    • WMS
    • PDF
    • HTML
  • Open Data

    Aboriginal Lands of Canada Legislative Boundaries

    The Aboriginal Lands of Canada Legislative Boundaries web service includes legislative boundaries of Indian Reserves, Land Claim Settlement Lands (lands created under Comprehensive Land Claims Process that do not or will not have Indian Reserve status under the Indian Act) and Indian Lands. More...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • WMS
    • ESRI REST
    • HTML
    • KMZ
    • SHP
    • PDF
    • GML
    • KML
  • Open Data

    LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series

    The LiDAR Point Clouds is a product that is part of the CanElevation Series created to support the National Elevation Data Strategy implemented by NRCan. This product contains point clouds from various airborne LiDAR acquisition projects conducted in Canada. These airborne LiDAR acquisition...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • PDF
    • LAS
    • SHP
    • FGDB/GDB
    • WMS
    • GPKG
  • Open Data

    GeoAI - GeoBase Series

    GeoAI are buildings, hydrography, forests, and roads automatically extracted using Deep Learning models applied to a source dataset, typically aerial or satellite images. The primary aim of GeoAI is to increase Canada's availability of high-resolution foundational geospatial data for both spatial...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • SHP
    • FGDB/GDB
    • GPKG
    • PDF
    • KMZ
  • Open Data

    Major Projects Inventory

    Natural Resources Canada’s Major Projects Inventory published annually, provides a snapshot of major natural resource projects in Canada that are either currently under construction or are planned within the next 10 years. The inventory includes major projects that increase, extend or improve...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • SHP
    • PDF
    • WMS
    • FGDB/GDB
    • KMZ
    • TAB
  • Open Data

    Cadastral Information for Samiajij Miawpukek

    This data provides the integrated cadastral framework for the specified Canada Land. The cadastral framework consists of active and superseded cadastral parcel, roads, easements, administrative areas, active lines, points and annotations. The cadastral lines form the boundaries of the parcels....
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • SHP
    • other