Purpose of this dataset: To identify and describe the current coverage of wetlands within Alberta to the level of the five major Canadian Wetland Classification System classes. (ALPAC) Environment Canada Canadian Space Agency Lakeland Industry and Community Association (LICA) Imperial Oil Resources Shell Canada Suncor Energy Foundation Weyerhaeuser Company Limited Encana Corporation and Parks Canada (Wood Buffalo National Park). Government of Alberta (Environment and Parks) United States Forest Service (USFS) United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) North American Waterfowl Conservation Act (NAWCA) The PEW Charitable Trusts Canadian Boreal Initiative Alberta-Pacific Forest Products Inc. The funding partners for the component inventories include: Ducks Unlimited Canada Ducks Unlimited Inc. Note that the Alberta Merged Wetland Inventory product replaces the previously released Alberta Merged Wetland Inventory from October 23, 2018.
Accuracy assessments have been included where available but it should be noted that the geoprocessing applied to the data may have introduced additional error. Considerable variation in the level of detail and accuracy is present in this dataset. The Alberta Merged Wetland Inventory is a generalized, merged product of 35 component wetland inventories that utilized different types of source data from different years, different data capture specifications and different classifications. For the purposes of this inventory, shallow open water includes all open water. These five major classes include bog, fen, marsh, swamp and shallow open water. Abstract: The Alberta Merged Wetland Inventory depicts wetlands within the province of Alberta, Canada for the period 1998 to 2017 classified to the five major classes in the Canadian Wetland Classification System (CWCS).
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