Table 3.8.1 Selected land cover and land use statistics, Arctic Coast–Islands drainage region, 2011
Table 3.8.1 Selected land cover and land use statistics, Arctic Coast–Islands drainage region, 2011
Table 3.8.1
Selected land cover and land use statistics, Arctic–Coast Islands drainage region, 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of Selected land cover and land use statistics Total area, Water area, Land area, Built-up area, 2011, Arable land, 2011, Natural land for pasture, 2011, Natural and semi-natural area, 2011, Fertilized area, 2011, Irrigated area, 2011 and Barrier density, 2011, calculated using km2, percentage and m/km2 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Total area includes land and water using the Atlas of Canada 1:1,000,000 scale hydrography base and includes the Canadian portion of the Great Lakes. Water area is calculated from the Canada-wide 1-km2 gridded Water Fraction derived from National Topographic Data Base maps.
Built-up area estimated for 2011 combines the land use classes for settlements and roads from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Land Use, 2010, supplemented with estimates of settlements and roads for northern areas in drainage regions 1, 5, 7, 8, 16, 18 and 25. Additional information is available in Appendix E.
Data for arable land, natural land for pasture, fertilized area and irrigated area are taken from the 2011 Interpolated Census of Agriculture, which aggregates data from the Census of Agriculture by soil landscape and drainage area units. Arable land is the sum of cropland, summerfallow and tame and seeded pasture. Other land on farms (e.g., land occupied by farm buildings, wetlands and woodlots) is included as built-up or natural land.
Barriers include roads, rail lines and electrical transmission lines, but excludes other types of infrastructure such as pipelines. Barrier density refers to the density of these roads, rail line and transmission lines, measured in metres of barriers per square kilometre of land.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Environment, Energy and Transportation Statistics Division, 2017, special tabulation from Fernandes, R., G. Pavlic, W. Chen and R. Fraser, 2001, 1-km Water Fraction From National Topographic Data Base Maps, Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Earth Science Sector, (accessed April 28, 2010); Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), 2015, Land Use, 2010, (accessed September 16, 2015); AAFC and Statistics Canada, special tabulation, Census of Agriculture, Census Geographic Component Base 2011; Natural Resources Canada, Earth Sciences Sector, Mapping Information Branch, Centre for Topographic Information, 2012, CanVec (accessed March 1, 2012).