Land Use Classification Map for Alberta Energy Regulation Pilot Area

Alberta Energy Regulator provides a land-use and land-cover classification dataset derived from 2005 Landsat imagery. It contains 13 distinct classes including forests, water bodies, developed areas, and agriculture for a defined pilot region. This data serves as baseline information for planning and monitoring surface impacts from energy exploration.

Use Cases

• Train a semantic segmentation model to classify Landsat pixels into one of 13 land cover classes such as 'coniferous forest', 'water bodies', or 'developed areas'.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of 'mixed developed areas' and 'agriculture areas' to assess land use patterns within the Play-Based Regulation pilot zone.
• Use the 'exposed land/cut blocks/harvested areas' class as a baseline to monitor surface disturbance changes over time from energy exploration.
• Calculate the proportional area of 'broadleaf forest', 'mixed forest', and 'shrub land' classes to inform regional ecological assessments and habitat planning.

Strengths

• Contains 13 distinct land-use and land-cover classification categories.
• Covers a defined geographic area spanning multiple townships and towns in Alberta.

Limitations

• Dataset is derived from 2005 imagery, making it temporally stale for current analysis.
• Specific spatial resolution, row count, and validation accuracy metrics are not provided.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta, Alberta Energy Regulator.

Collection Method

Derived from 2005 Landsat multispectral imagery.

Time Range

2005

Freshness

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Geography

Play-Based Regulation pilot area in Alberta, covering towns from Edson to Valleyview.