Circa 1995 Landcover of the Prairies

The ‘Circa 1995 Landcover of the Prairies’dataset is a geospatial raster data layer portraying the rudimentaryland cover types of all grain-growing areas of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and northeastern British Columbia at a 30-metre resolution for the 1995 timeframe. It is the collection of all the classified imagery (1993 to 1995) of the Western Grain Transition Payment Program (WGTPP) assembled into a single seamless raster data layer.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field	Value
Last Updated	April 17, 2026, 21:45 (UTC)
Created	April 17, 2026, 21:45 (UTC)
contact_email	agri-geomatics-agrog@agr.gc.ca
contact_person	{"en": "Government of Canada; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Science and Technology Branch,agri-geomatics-agrog@agr.gc.ca", "fr": "Gouvernement du Canada; Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada; direction générale des sciences et de la technologie,agri-geomatics-agrog@agr.gc.ca"}
criticality_level	[]
data_dictionary	EPSG: 3857,www.epsg.org,8.3.4
geographic_scope	[]
open_canada_collection	fgp
open_canada_date_published	2013-04-05 00:00:00
open_canada_keywords	{"en": ["Croplands", "Land use", "Crops", "Land cover"], "fr": ["Terre agricole", "Utilisation des terres", "Cultures", "Couverture du sol"]}
open_canada_subject	["form_descriptors"]
sensitivity_level	unrestricted
title_fr	Couverture des terres des Prairies aux environs de 1995
update_frequency	not_planned