Natural Resources Canada

4 datasets found
  • 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

    Stories from the land: Indigenous Place Names in Canada

    This interactive map is a collaborative project by the Geographical Names Board of Canada, illustrating a curated selection of places in Canada with names that have origins in multiple Indigenous languages. The names selected show the history and evolution of Indigenous place naming in Canada,...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • FGDB/GDB
    • MXD
    • HTML
  • Open Data

    Map of the merchantable volume of the “mature forest” in Canada

    This publication contains a raster maps at 250 m resolution of the merchantable volume (m3/ha) of the mature Canadian forest available for harvesting in the next 20 years (2011 to 2031). The maps were produced from remote sensing products at a spatial resolution of 250 m on the MODIS pixel grid...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • JPG
    • FGDB/GDB
    • MXD
    • TIFF
  • Open Data

    Maps forecasting the availability of logging residues in Canada

    This publication contains vector data (shapefile) of the post-harvest forest residues in Canada for the bioenergy/bioproducts sector in oven-dry tonnes per year (ODT/yr) over the next 20 years. The maps were produced using different remote sensing products. We used forest attribute data at 250 m...
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • WMS
    • FGDB/GDB
    • MXD
    • JPG