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Welcome to the Boreal Data Foundry
This is an inventory of every dataset used by the BEACONs and the BAM projects. To get an access to the data on the Foundry FTP site, contact Pierre Racine.
| Code & FTP Access | Name | Category | Theme | Complete Theme | Data Structure | Format | Spatial Coverage | More |
INDX-ULA-01  | Tardis grid index for Canada (raster) | Index | Index | raterized Index of Canada | raster | GeoTIFF | Canada | Plus... |
| INDX-ULA-02 | Tardis grid index for Canada (vector) | Index | Index | vectorized index of Canada | vector (polygon) | Shapefile | Canada | Plus... |
| DRAA-BEA-01 | Catchments layer Canada | Hydrology | Drainage area | Canadian catchments dataset | vector (polygon) | Shapefile | Canada | Plus... |
| HYDR-NRC-01 | National Hydro Network (NHN) | Hydrology | Hydrology network | National hydrology network | vector (various) | Shapefile | Canada | Plus... |
| CMIN-NCA-01 | Monthly Palmer Drought Severity Index | Climate | moisture index | Monthly Palmer Drought Severity Index | raster | GeoTIFF | World | Plus... |
| TEMP-NRC-01 | Interpolated historical climate data processed for the Canada land mass - Mean daily maximum temperature | climate | temperature | mean daily maximum temperature | raster | GeoTIFF | Canada | Plus... |
| TEMP-NRC-02 | Interpolated historical climate data processed for the Canada land mass - Mean daily minimum temperature | climate | temperature | mean daily minimum temperature | raster | GeoTIFF | Canada | Plus... |
| PREC-RNC-01 | Interpolated historical climate data processed for the Canada land mass - Monthly precipitation | climate | precipitation | monthly precipitation | raster | GeoTIFF | Canada | Plus... |
| TBD-UAB-01 | TBD | climate | TBD | TBD | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| TBD-UAB-02 | TBD | climate | TBD | TBD | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| TBD-UAB-03 | TBD | climate | TBD | TBD | raster | ARC/INFO Grid, DBF | Canada | Plus... |
| TBD-UAB-04 | TBD | climate | TBD | TBD | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| TBD-UAB-05 | TBD | climate | TBD | TBD | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| TBD-UAB-06 | TBD | climate | TBD | TBD | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| TBD-UAB-07 | TBD | climate | TBD | TBD | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| TBD-UAB-08 | TBD | climate | TBD | TBD | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| TBD-UAB-09 | TBD | climate | TBD | TBD | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| LACO-NRC-01 | Earth Observation for Sustainable Development of Forests (EOSD) - Land Cover Classification for Québec 2000 | land classification | land cover | land cover | raster | GeoTIFF, JPG | Québec | Plus... |
| ECOZ-AAC-01 | Ecozones from the national ecological framework for Canada 1999 | ecological stratification | ecozone | ecozone | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Canada | Plus... |
| ECOP-AAC-02 | Ecoprovinces from the national ecological framework for Canada 1999 | ecological stratification | ecoprovince | ecoprovince | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Canada | Plus... |
| ECOR-AAC-03 | Ecoregions from the national ecological framework for Canada 1999 | ecological stratification | ecoregion | ecoregion | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Canada | Plus... |
| ECOD-AAC-04 | Ecodistricts from the national ecological framework for Canada 1999 | ecological stratification | ecodistrict | ecodistrict | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Canada | Plus... |
| LINT-GFW-01 | Global Forest Watch Canada - Canada's Forest Landscape Fragments: First Approximation 2006 | intactness | landscape intactness | landscape intactness | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Canada Forest Ecozones | Plus... |
| LINT-GFW-02 | Global Forest Watch Canada - Alberta Forest Landscape Fragments 2007 | intactness | landscape intactness | landscape intactness | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Alberta | Plus... |
| CONN-ULA-01 | Mapsheet road connectivity for Québec based on the road network provided with the third MRNQ forest inventory | relationship | connectivity | mapsheet road connectivity | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Québec | Plus... |
| EDEN-BEA-01 | Boreal Lake-Edge Density for BEACONs | ecological criteria | edge density | water edge density | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Canada Boreal | Plus... |
| VARI-RNQ-01 | Subset of the Third Québec Forest Inventory, 1990-1999 | land classification | various | various | vector (various) | shapefile | Québec Meridional | Plus... |
| FOCO-RNQ-01 | Forest Cover from the Third Québec Forest Inventory, 1991-1999 | land classification | forest cover | forest cover | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Québec Meridional | Plus... |
| CMIN-CFS-01 | Jensen-Haise Climate Moisture Index (CMI) based on 30-Year Normals, 1961-1990 | climate | climate moisture index | 30-year normals Jensen-Haise climate moisture index | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| CMIN-CFS-02 | Modified Penman-Monteith Climate Moisture Index (CMI) based on 30-Year Normals, 1961-1990 | climate | climate moisture index | 30-year normals modified Penman-Monteith climate moisture index | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| CMIN-CFS-03 | Priestley-Taylor Climate Moisture Index (CMI) based on 30-Year Normals, 1961-1990 | climate | climate moisture index | 30-year normals Priestley-Taylor climate moisture index | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| POEV-CFS-01 | Jensen-Haise potential evapotranspiration (PET) based on 30-Year Normals, 1961-1990 | climate | potential evapotranspiration | 30-year normals Jensen-Haise potential evapotranspiration | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| POEV-CFS-02 | Modified Penman-Monteith potential evapotranspiration (PET) based on 30-Year Normals, 1961-1990 | climate | potential evapotranspiration | 30-year normals modified Penman-Monteith potential evapotranspiration | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| POEV-CFS-03 | Priestley-Taylor potential evapotranspiration (PET) based on 30-Year Normals, 1961-1990 | climate | potential evapotranspiration | 30-year normals Priestley-Taylor potential evapotranspiration | raster | ARC/INFO Grid | Canada | Plus... |
| PROA-CEC-01 | Terrestrial and Marine Protected Areas of North America, 2010 | land classification | protected area | protected area | vector (polygon) | shapefile | North America | Plus... |
| DRAA-NRC-01 | Ocean Drainage Areas of Canada, Atlas of Canada | hydrology | drainage area | ocean drainage area | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Canada | Plus... |
| BASN-NRC-01 | Sub Component Basins of Canada, Atlas of Canada | hydrology | basin | sub component basin | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Canada, major river basins only | Plus... |
| BASN-NRC-02 | Sub Sub Component Basins of Canada, Atlas of Canada | hydrology | basin | sub sub component basin | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Canada, river basins only | Plus... |
| DRAA-ENC-01 | Major Drainage Areas, Water Survey of Canada | hydrology | drainage area | major drainage area | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Canada | Plus... |
| DRAA-ENC-02 | Sub Drainage Areas, Water Survey of Canada | hydrology | drainage area | sub drainage area | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Canada | Plus... |
| DRAA-ENC-03 | Sub Sub Drainage Areas, Water Survey of Canada | hydrology | drainage area | sub sub drainage area | vector (polygon) | shapefile | Canada | Plus... |
| LACO-NRC-02 | NRCAN Land Cover Map of Canada 2005 at 250m V1 3 | land classification | land cover | land cover | raster | GeoTIFF | Canada | Plus... |
| BORE-BEA-01 | Boreal Region of Canada | Ecological stratification | Boreal boundary | Boreal Region of Canada | vector (polygon) | Shapefile | Canada | Plus... |
| LACO-DUC-01 | Hydrid Wetland Layer | Land classification | Wetland | Canadian Hydrid Wetland Layer | Raster | FGDBR (file geodatabase raster) | Canada | Plus... |
