Access to practical tools & resources to help Canadians better understand and conserve wetlands.
Description
The National Soil Database (NSDB) is the set of digital (Arc Info) files that contain soil, landscape, and climatic data for all of Canada. It serves as the national archive for land resources information that was collected by federal and provincial field surveys, or created by land data analysis projects. The principle types of NSDB data holding are:
- the National Ecological Framework (scales of 1:30 million to 1:1 million, coverage includes all of Canada)
- Soil Map of Canada/Land Potential Database (scale of 1:5 million, Canada-wide coverage)
- Agroecological Resource Areas (scale of 1:2 million, coverage includes the prairie provinces, data includes climatic, economic, crop, soil, and landscape attributes)
- Soil Landscapes of Canada (scale of 1:1 million, Canada-wide coverage, data includes major soil and landscape attributes)
- Canada Land Inventory (scale of 1:250,000, coverage includes most agricultural lands in Canada, data includes capability for Agriculture, Forestry, Wildlife, Recreation, Ungulates)
- Detailed Soil Survey (scale varies from 1:20,000 to 1:250,000, coverage includes most of the significant agricultural areas of Canada, data content varies as does availability of digital data).
Additional Information:
Regions: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Canada, Nunavut
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