Project Returns for North Saskatchewan and Battle River Watersheds Land Cover Dataset

This 5 class 6 m resolution land cover was created for the NSWA and BRWA in 2020-2021 using SPOT6/7 imagery from 2017 and 2018 provided by the Government of Alberta in order to assess riparian intactness for 25,272 km of shoreline in Alberta. The land cover was developed from 44 separate supervised random forest classifications of 41 different SPOT6 6m imagery tiles from 2017/2018 and was then clipped to a 50 m buffer around waterbodies of interest. The full classification is composed of 41 individual polygon files, each of which corresponds to the original SPOT tile that the classification was performed on. Details on the individual SPOT tiles is available in the accompanying report. Two data products are available from this project: Wall to Wall Land Cover (available in TIFF and FGDB formats) and Shoreline Buffer (available in TIFF format). Please see the Distribution Information to obtain the data products.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field	Value
Last Updated	April 17, 2026, 20:49 (UTC)
Created	April 17, 2026, 20:49 (UTC)
contact_email	EPA.Planning@gov.ab.ca
contact_person	{"en": "Government of Alberta; Government of Alberta; Environment and Parks", "fr": "Gouvernement de l'Alberta; Gouvernement de l'Alberta; Environment and Parks"}
criticality_level	[]
data_dictionary	unknown,unknown,unknown
geographic_scope	[]
open_canada_collection	fgp
open_canada_date_published	2021-05-01 00:00:00
open_canada_keywords	{"en": ["-CANADA", "ALBERTA", "BATTLE-RIVER", "BATTLE-RIVER-WATERSHED", "DOWNLOADABLE-DATA", "ENVIRONMENT", "INLANDWATERS", "LAND-COVER", "LAND-USE", "NORTH-SASKATCHEWAN-RIVER", "NORTH-SASKATCHWAN-RIVER-WATERSHED", "RIPARIAN-INTACTNESS", "RIPARIAN-MANAGEMENT-AREAS", "SHORELINE-BUFFER", "SPOT6", "SPOT7", "WALL-TO-WALL-LAND-COVER", "Government information"], "fr-t-en": ["-CANADA", "ALBERTA", "BATTLE-RIVER", "BASSIN VERSANT DE LA RIVIÈRE BATTLE", "DONNÉES TÉLÉCHARGEABLES", "ENVIRONNEMENT", "EAUX INTÉRIEURES", "COUVERTURE TERRESTRE", "UTILISATION DES TERRES", "RIVIÈRE-SASKATCHEWAN-DU-NORD", "BASSIN VERSANT DE LA RIVIÈRE SASKATCHEWAN NORD", "INTÉGRITÉ DE LA ZONE RIVERAINE", "ZONES DE GESTION RIVERAINES", "ZONE TAMPON RIVERAINE", "POINT 6", "POINT 7", "COUVERTURE DU SOL MUR À MUR", "Information gouvernementale"]}
open_canada_subject	["nature_and_environment"]
sensitivity_level	unrestricted
title_fr
update_frequency	irregular