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Prairie Grassland Land Cover

The Grassland Inventory provides a standardized, high-resolution land cover classification for the grassland ecosystems in Canada. Developed using a random forest classification on multi-temporal Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 Optical imagery, the series differ

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Crop diversity in Canada

This dataset provides two landscape-level indices derived for two hierarchical ecological frameworks in Canada—Soil Landscapes of Canada (SLC) and EcoDistrict polygons—across the country’s agricultural regions. The first index, the Shannon Diversity Index, qua

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Canadian Agricultural Crop Water Balance (CACWB) – Watershed Aggregates

The “Canadian Agricultural Crop Water Balance – Watershed Aggregates” provides watershed-scale summaries of agricultural crop water balance variables for Canada derived from DNDC crop simulations linked to Soil Landscapes of Canada (SLC) polygons. The monthly

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Estimated Historical Crop Yields in Canada by SLC

The Estimated Historical Crop Yields in Canada by SLC (kg\hectare) dataset is produced by combining three complementary sources of yield information at the Soil Landscapes of Canada (SLC) level. First, provincial-level yields for seven major crops are allocate

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National Agroclimate Series of Derived Indicators (NASDI)

Climatic variability plays a critical role in shaping Canada’s agricultural sector, influencing essential factors such as water availability, soil health, and both the yield and quality of crops. Shifts in temperature, distribution of rainfall, and increases i

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National Agroclimate Series of Derived Indicators (NASDI) - Accumulated Precipitation (mm)

Accumulated Precipitation represents the amount of total precipitation in mm (solid and/or liquid) which has been recorded over a given month or ISO week. Accumulation of precipitation values serve to inform users about the total amount of precipitation that h

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National Agroclimate Series of Derived Indicators (NASDI) - Difference from average precipitation

Difference from Average Precipitation represents the accumulated precipitation value for a location, subtracted by the long-term average value. A negative value indicates that the location has received less than the normal amount of precipitation (mm) for that

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National Agroclimate Series of Derived Indicators (NASDI) - Difference from normal temperature

Difference from Normal Temperature values are computed by subtracting the normal monthly average temperature from the average monthly temperature of the month. The average monthly temperature is computed by obtaining the mean value of average daily temperature

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National Agroclimate Series of Derived Indicators (NASDI) - Percent of average precipitation

Percent of average precipitation represents the total amount of precipitation for a particular location over a specific time period, divided by the long-term average precipitation (1991-2020) for the same period and location, expressed as a percentage. Percent

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National Agroclimate Series of Derived Indicators (NASDI) - Precipitation Percentiles

Precipitation percentiles represents the accumulated precipitation (mm) for the time period compared to historical information for the same time period. This comparison ranks the current precipitation amount and assigns it a percentile value based on a histori

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