Natural Resources Canada

The administrative features of the CanVec series include geopolitical regions (international, territorial and provincial) and populated place names. A wide selection of attributes describe the data. The CanVec multiscale series is available as prepackaged downloadable files and by...

The buildings-based component of the SCIEU collects building characteristics and energy consumption estimates by building type and by region.

The buildings-based component of the SCIEU collects building characteristics and energy consumption estimates by building type and by region.

The marks left in the seabed by the commercial anchoring process can be seen as linear features in high-resolution multibeam bathymetry data. These features have been digitized to polylines for individual marks and polygons for anchor scour zones for British Columbia's (BC) commercial anchorages....

The SMTC map and database provides the location of, and information about completed, under construction, or planned mass timber projects and manufacturing facilities in Canada. Project information includes building size, height, occupancy, mass timber materials used, year of construction, and...

This is a dataset listing the number of publications by year in GEOSCAN. GEOSCAN is the bibliographic database for scientific publications of Natural Resources Canada.

The Indigenous Geographical Names dataset presents an extract from the Canadian Geographical Names Data Base (CGNDB) of geographical names with roots in Indigenous cultures. These geographical names reflect heritage, language, personal names, and cultural practices. Terrain and water features,...

Data from a mating-disruption trial against SBW in New Brunswick in 2021

The National Hydro Network (NHN) focuses on providing a quality geometric description and a set of basic attributes describing Canada's inland surface waters. It provides geospatial digital data compliant with the NHN Standard such as lakes, reservoirs, watercourses (rivers and streams), canals,...

The dataset includes two data products derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) imager operated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) onboard Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellite: 1) Normalized Difference Vegetation...

The Atlas of Canada Small-scale Reference Maps are a collection of digital and print-ready 8.5” x 11” sized maps of Canada’s provinces and territories. It also includes a collection of maps of the continents and the World. Each map is available in three formats – colour, black and white, and...

Four to six years measurements of carbon and nutrient fluxes at 21 sites located along a 4oC climatic gradient, half of which were in balsam fir stands and the other half in black spruce stands. Litter fall is measured as well as respiration in situ using an IRGA device.

2 Billion Trees Program Forests and trees sustain life on Earth. Beyond the jobs that our sustainably managed forests provide, people living in Canada rely on forests for a wealth of benefits. Healthy forest ecosystems sustain thousands of living organisms, supply us with food, provide shelter...

The Social Vulnerability component of the National Human Settlement Layer (NHSL) includes information about broad spatial patterns of social vulnerability at the neighbourhood scale, and indicators about the capacities for a community to withstand and recover from disaster events based on...

The Physical Exposure component of the National Human Settlement Layer (NHSL), defined here as the ‘Physical Exposure Model’, includes a delineation of settled areas and related land use across Canada, as well as information about buildings, persons, and building replacement values (structure and...

This data provides the integrated cadastral framework for Canada Lands. 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. COGO attributes...

Canada Harmonized Agriculture Forest Land Cover 2015 The harmonized land cover (HLC) map is produced from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Canadian Forest Service (CFS) data. The HLC product is exhaustive of all area from the northern edge of Canada’s forested ecosystems to the...

Organic soils in the boreal forest commonly store as much carbon as the vegetation above ground. While recent efforts through the National Forest Inventory has yielded new spatial datasets of forest structure across the vast area of Canada’s boreal forest, organic soils are poorly mapped. In this...

The National Parks and National Park Reserves of Canada Legislative Boundaries web service includes the following lands: 1) National Parks of Canada as defined in Schedule 1 of the Canada National Parks Act, 2) National Park Reserves of Canada as defined in Schedule 2 of the Canada National...

The map browser is a web based mapping tool that permits users to investigate cadastral data from the Surveyor General Branch. All cadastral data are updated nightly while the background map is static. Cadastral data are available for indian reserves, national parks, northern communities and...