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Canada's Land Cover (2004)


Description

Canada's Land Cover is a map designed as a promotional poster-map product for the Atlas of Canada. The map is primarily based on AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) data, offering very precise detail. The land cover image contains 31 land cover classes. These have been grouped into 9 large land cover classes from coniferous forest to snow and ice. There are photos showing visually what each of these 9 land cover areas look like.


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