Annual Crop Inventory Maps for Canada and Yukon at 30m Resolution

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Earth Observation Team generated crop inventory digital maps for 2025 using satellite imagery. The maps cover all Canadian provinces and the Yukon Territory, combining optical and radar satellite data with ground-truth information from provincial crop insurance programs and regional research centres. A Decision Tree methodology was applied to produce maps with a final spatial resolution of 30 meters.

Use Cases

• Monitor annual crop distribution and land use changes across Canada based on satellite-derived maps.
• Assess agricultural land impacted by forest fires using the burned areas landcover class.
• Validate and improve remote sensing classification algorithms using the ground-truth data sources mentioned.
• Support national agricultural policy and insurance programs with spatially detailed crop inventory data.

Strengths

• Maps have a defined spatial resolution of 30 meters.
• Data integrates multiple satellite sources: Landsat-8, Landsat-9, Sentinel-2, and RCM radar.
• Ground-truth information was provided by multiple provincial crop insurance companies and AAFC regional centres.
• Includes a specific landcover class (60) for areas burned by forest fires, using perimeter estimates from Natural Resources Canada.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)

Collection Method

Decision Tree methodology applied to optical and radar satellite imagery, supplemented by ground-truth data.

Time Range

2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 21:30:49.193931; freshness should be verified

Geography

All Canadian provinces and the Yukon Territory