Wooded Areas, Saturated Soils and Landscape in Canada - CanVec Series - Land Features

The land features of the CanVec series contains landscape features of Canada such as islands, shoreline delineation, wooded areas, saturated soil features, landform features (esker, sand, etc.).

The CanVec multiscale series is available as prepackaged downloadable files and by user-defined extent via a Geospatial data extraction tool.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field	Value
Last Updated	April 17, 2026, 19:41 (UTC)
Created	April 17, 2026, 19:41 (UTC)
contact_email	geoinfo@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca
contact_person	{"en": "Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;Geoscience and Earth Monitoring Sector; Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation; GeoBase,geoinfo@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca", "fr": "Gouvernement du Canada; Ressources naturelles Canada;Secteur des géosciences et de la surveillance de la Terre; Centre canadien de cartographie et d'observation de la Terre; GéoBase,geoinfo@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca"}
criticality_level	[]
data_dictionary	EPSG:4617,https://www.epsg-registry.org,8.8.1
geographic_scope	[]
open_canada_collection	fgp
open_canada_date_published	2019-03-01 00:00:00
open_canada_keywords	{"en": ["Forest", "Esker", "Wetlands", "Moraine", "Landscape", "Earth Sciences", "Geomorphology", "CanVec", "1 000 000", "5 000 000", "15 000 000", "1;000;000", "5;000;000", "1M", "5M", "15M", "50K", "50 000", "50;000", "250K", "250 000", "250;000", "Cartography", "Educational resources", "Geographic information systems", "Geographic data", "Data dictionaries"], "fr": ["Forêt", "Esker", "Marécages", "Moraine", "Paysage", "Sciences de la terre", "Géomorphologie", "CanVec", "1 000 000", "5 000 000", "15 000 000", "1;000;000", "5;000;000", "1M", "5M", "15M", "50K", "50 000", "50;000", "250K", "250 000", "250;000", "Cartographie", "Ressources pédagogiques", "Système d'information géographique", "Données géographiques", "Dictionnaire de données"]}
open_canada_subject	["form_descriptors", "nature_and_environment", "science_and_technology"]
sensitivity_level	unrestricted
title_fr	Régions boisées, sols saturés et formes du paysage au Canada - Série CanVec - Entités terre
update_frequency	not_planned