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  • 1. Land Cover Register: Data product specifications
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2025003
    Description: This product contains specifications intended for users of the land cover register geospatial files. This document provides important technical information for users and links to methodology.
    Release date: 2025-05-13
  • 2. Statistical Ecosystem Register grid system reference files: Data product specifications
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2025004
    Description: This product contains specifications intended for users of the Statistical Ecosystem Register grid system reference files. This document provides important technical information for users, including the coordinate reference system, resolution, and file contents and structure. This document also provides additional information about the grid system, reasons for some of the chosen parameters, and intended uses.
    Release date: 2025-05-13
  • 3. Statistical Ecosystem Register grid system reference files: Geospatial files
    Table: 16-510-X2025005
    Description: This product contains reference files that define the nested spatial grid system used by the Census of Environment's Statistical Ecosystem Register. The reference grids are available as 11 GeoTIFF files, one for each resolution, as well as a well-known text representation of the projected coordinate reference system (.prj file). The GeoTIFF files contain only placeholder values of 1 (stored as a compressed unsigned 1-bit integer, to minimize the size of the files). These files can be used as templates for integrating data from multiple sources into a single gridded spatial reference system, thus enabling a common approach for related spatial data products.
    Release date: 2025-05-13
  • 4. Ecosystem services, biomass provisioning services by ecosystem type and type of product
    Table: 38-10-0171-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Products commercially harvested from ecosystems including forests, coastal and marine, agricultural, and other natural and semi-natural land and freshwater ecosystems, annually starting with 2002.
    Release date: 2025-05-13
  • 5. Census of Environment: Land cover 2020
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202508639053
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 6. Land Cover Register: Documentation
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2025001
    Description: This document describes the methodology used to develop the land cover register, a raster dataset that maps Canada’s terrestrial and freshwater land cover using an 11-class classification system. The data product, with a spatial resolution of 30 metres, represents circa 2020 and was created through the integration of multiple land cover and land use datasets. The dataset and documentation were created by the Census of Environment program and will support Statistics Canada's ecosystem accounting efforts.
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 7. Land Cover Register: Geospatial files
    Table: 16-510-X2025002
    Description: This product contains a raster dataset that maps Canada’s terrestrial and freshwater extent using an 11-class classification system. It represents land cover circa 2020 and has a 30-metre spatial resolution. The main purpose of the land cover register is to identify land cover and land use assets to support ecosystem accounting. It was created through the integration of multiple land cover and land use datasets.
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 8. Land cover by class, Canada, ecoprovince and ecozone
    Table: 38-10-0177-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Land cover areas by class for the year 2020 at the ecoprovince and ecozone levels. Classes include built-up and artificial surface, cropland, inland water body, treed, treed area disturbance, grassland and shrubland, wetland (non-treed), sparsely vegetated land, barren land, and permanent snow and ice.
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 9. Land cover by class, Canada, sub-drainage area, major drainage area and drainage region
    Table: 38-10-0178-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Land cover areas by class for the year 2020 at the level of various hydrogeographies. Classes include built-up and artificial surface, cropland, inland water body, treed, treed area disturbance, grassland and shrubland, wetland (non-treed), sparsely vegetated land, barren land, and permanent snow and ice.
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 10. Logging industries, principal statistics by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
    Table: 16-10-0114-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (16 items: Canada; Atlantic Region; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...) Principal statistics (16 items: Total revenue; Revenue from logging activities; Total expenses; Total salaries and wages, direct and indirect labour; ...) North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (3 items: Logging; Logging (except contract); Contract Logging).
    Release date: 2024-12-18
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  • 1. Statistical Ecosystem Register grid system reference files: Geospatial files
    Table: 16-510-X2025005
    Description: This product contains reference files that define the nested spatial grid system used by the Census of Environment's Statistical Ecosystem Register. The reference grids are available as 11 GeoTIFF files, one for each resolution, as well as a well-known text representation of the projected coordinate reference system (.prj file). The GeoTIFF files contain only placeholder values of 1 (stored as a compressed unsigned 1-bit integer, to minimize the size of the files). These files can be used as templates for integrating data from multiple sources into a single gridded spatial reference system, thus enabling a common approach for related spatial data products.
    Release date: 2025-05-13
  • 2. Ecosystem services, biomass provisioning services by ecosystem type and type of product
    Table: 38-10-0171-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Products commercially harvested from ecosystems including forests, coastal and marine, agricultural, and other natural and semi-natural land and freshwater ecosystems, annually starting with 2002.
    Release date: 2025-05-13
  • 3. Land Cover Register: Geospatial files
    Table: 16-510-X2025002
    Description: This product contains a raster dataset that maps Canada’s terrestrial and freshwater extent using an 11-class classification system. It represents land cover circa 2020 and has a 30-metre spatial resolution. The main purpose of the land cover register is to identify land cover and land use assets to support ecosystem accounting. It was created through the integration of multiple land cover and land use datasets.
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 4. Land cover by class, Canada, ecoprovince and ecozone
    Table: 38-10-0177-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Land cover areas by class for the year 2020 at the ecoprovince and ecozone levels. Classes include built-up and artificial surface, cropland, inland water body, treed, treed area disturbance, grassland and shrubland, wetland (non-treed), sparsely vegetated land, barren land, and permanent snow and ice.
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 5. Land cover by class, Canada, sub-drainage area, major drainage area and drainage region
    Table: 38-10-0178-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Land cover areas by class for the year 2020 at the level of various hydrogeographies. Classes include built-up and artificial surface, cropland, inland water body, treed, treed area disturbance, grassland and shrubland, wetland (non-treed), sparsely vegetated land, barren land, and permanent snow and ice.
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 6. Logging industries, principal statistics by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
    Table: 16-10-0114-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (16 items: Canada; Atlantic Region; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...) Principal statistics (16 items: Total revenue; Revenue from logging activities; Total expenses; Total salaries and wages, direct and indirect labour; ...) North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (3 items: Logging; Logging (except contract); Contract Logging).
    Release date: 2024-12-18
  • 7. Protected and conserved ocean and coastal ecosystem extent account
    Table: 38-10-0157-01
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Protected and conserved area of Canadian ocean water layers and selected coastal and ocean floor ecosystems, by marine bioregion, conservation and protection category and management category.
    Release date: 2024-12-16
  • 8. Urban greenness and normalized difference vegetation index by 2021 population centre
    Table: 38-10-0158-01
    Geography: Population centre, Population centre part
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Greenness measures based on normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) including percentage of land area classed as green and average NDVI, by population centre and by population centre size category, for population centres in Canada and by province, annual.
    Release date: 2024-11-21
  • 9. Median, maximum and minimum monthly water yield for selected drainage regions
    Table: 38-10-0003-01
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Estimates of median, minimum and maximum monthly renewable freshwater for selected drainage regions over 30-year periods. Data are aggregated by standard climate normal reference periods: 1971 to 2000, 1981 to 2010 and 1991 to 2020.
    Release date: 2024-09-19
  • 10. Annual water yield for selected ecoprovinces
    Table: 38-10-0091-01
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Annual estimates of renewable freshwater for selected ecoprovinces beginning in 1971.
    Release date: 2024-09-19
Analysis (38)

Analysis (38) (0 to 10 of 38 results)

  • 1. Census of Environment: Land cover 2020
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202508639053
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 2. Ocean and coastal ecosystems 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202435135223
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-12-16
  • 3. Census of Environment: Renewable freshwater from 1971 to 2021
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202426336525
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-09-19
  • 4. Innovation Ecosystem Performance Indicators: Review of the Literature
    Articles and reports: 11-633-X2024003
    Description: The concept of innovation ecosystems has recently gained increasing interest among researchers, practitioners and policy makers. This article uses a systematic literature review approach by drawing on studies that bring together the most recent knowledge on innovation ecosystem performance indicators.
    Release date: 2024-09-11
  • 5. Just the tip of the iceberg
    Articles and reports: 16-508-X2024001
    Description: This fact sheet presents data on icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. The article covers reported iceberg data collected by the International Iceberg Patrol. It also covers how icebergs interact with ocean ecosystems, and the economic and cultural benefits that they provide in Newfoundland and Labrador.
    Release date: 2024-06-06
  • 6. What does nature provide to Canadians?
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024018
    Description: This infographic explores ecosystem services, which provide many benefits to society. The infographic provides a visual representation of the three main types of ecosystem services – provisioning services, regulating and maintenance services and cultural services.
    Release date: 2024-04-11
  • 7. Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 14, Life Below Water
    Articles and reports: 11-637-X202200100014
    Description: As the fourteenth goal outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Canada and other UN member states have committed to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development by 2030. This 2024 infographic provides an overview of indicators underlying the fourteenth Sustainable Development Goal in support of life below water, and the statistics and data sources used to monitor and report on this goal in Canada.
    Release date: 2024-01-25
  • 8. Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 15, Life on Land
    Articles and reports: 11-637-X202200100015
    Description: As the fifteenth goal outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Canada and other UN member states have committed to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss by 2030. This 2024 infographic provides an overview of indicators underlying the fifteenth Sustainable Development Goal in support of life on land, and the statistics and data sources used to monitor and report on this goal in Canada.
    Release date: 2024-01-25
  • 9. Census of Environment: Measuring settled area expansion, 2010 to 2020
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202330036869
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-10-27
  • 10. Census of Environment: A framework for agroecosystem accounting
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202325636565
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-09-13
Reference (9)

Reference (9) ((9 results))

  • 1. Land Cover Register: Data product specifications
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2025003
    Description: This product contains specifications intended for users of the land cover register geospatial files. This document provides important technical information for users and links to methodology.
    Release date: 2025-05-13
  • 2. Statistical Ecosystem Register grid system reference files: Data product specifications
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2025004
    Description: This product contains specifications intended for users of the Statistical Ecosystem Register grid system reference files. This document provides important technical information for users, including the coordinate reference system, resolution, and file contents and structure. This document also provides additional information about the grid system, reasons for some of the chosen parameters, and intended uses.
    Release date: 2025-05-13
  • 3. Land Cover Register: Documentation
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2025001
    Description: This document describes the methodology used to develop the land cover register, a raster dataset that maps Canada’s terrestrial and freshwater land cover using an 11-class classification system. The data product, with a spatial resolution of 30 metres, represents circa 2020 and was created through the integration of multiple land cover and land use datasets. The dataset and documentation were created by the Census of Environment program and will support Statistics Canada's ecosystem accounting efforts.
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 4. Ocean and coastal ecosystem extent: Data product specifications
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2024005
    Description: This product contains specifications intended for users of the ocean and coastal ecosystem extent geospatial files. This document provides important technical information for users and links to methodology.
    Release date: 2024-12-16
  • 5. Ocean and coastal ecosystem extent: Geospatial files
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2024006
    Description: This product contains gridded datasets of ocean and coastal ecosystem extent for ocean and coastal areas of Canada. Mapping the extent of ocean ecosystems is the first stage in creating spatially explicit accounts, to help understand the ocean and coastal ecosystems of Canada. The files cover the area from the coastline, defined by the 2021 Statistics Canada Census of Population, to the outer boundary of Canada’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Coastal areas of salt marsh are also included in the files.
    Release date: 2024-12-16
  • 6. Urban greenness: Geospatial files
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2024003
    Description: This product contains gridded datasets of annual estimates of average normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and green/grey classification.

    "Urban greenness" is a measure that assesses the condition and health of an urban landscape. Vegetation contributes to more livable, beautiful communities by helping to clean the air, moderate the local climate, control water flow and provide habitats for wildlife.

    Annual average normalized difference vegetation index datasets and annual green/grey classifications are available for the years 2000 to 2024 and cover Canada south of 60°N.
    Release date: 2024-11-21
  • 7. Urban greenness: Data product specifications
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2024004
    Description: This product contains specifications intended for users of the urban greenness geospatial files. This document provides important technical information for users and links to methodology.
    Release date: 2024-11-21
  • 8. Contiguously Settled Areas: Boundaries and User Documentation
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2023001
    Description: This product contains contiguously settled area (CSA) boundaries for a subset of Canadian population centres for 2010 and 2020 with user documentation. The CSA boundaries are derived from land cover data and represent the geographic extent of settled areas based on their physical footprint on the landscape. The boundaries can be used for reference, mapping and spatial analysis of settled areas and urban ecosystems. The CSA boundaries are created and maintained under the umbrella of the Census of Environment, and will support Statistics Canada's ecosystem accounting efforts.
    Release date: 2023-10-27
  • 9. What is the value of an ecosystem? Teacher’s Kit for Human Activity and the Environment 2013: Measuring ecosystem goods and services in Canada Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X2014001
    Description:

    These educational resources provide instructors with innovative materials, lesson plans and case study assignments to accompany the 2013 release of the Human Activity and the Environment article, “Measuring ecosystem goods and services in Canada.” The materials and activities were developed by the Critical Thinking Consortium, a non-profit, registered association of 55 educational partners—school districts, schools, teacher associations and other educational organizations.

    Resources were developed for a junior high school, senior high school and introductory post-secondary audience. Curriculum links include grades 7 to 12 geography, social studies, biology, science and economics, as well as introductory post-secondary geography and environmental science.

    Release date: 2014-09-24
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