Land Use Classification Map of Alberta's Play-Based Regulation Pilot Area

Alberta's Play-Based Regulation pilot area, covering towns from Edson to Valleyview, features a land-use and land-cover classification derived from 2005 Landsat imagery. The Alberta Energy Regulator created this dataset to assess surface change from energy exploration, classifying terrain into 13 categories including forests, water, and developed areas. It serves as baseline data for planning and monitoring surface infrastructure impacts.

Use Cases

• Train a semantic segmentation model to identify 'coniferous forest', 'broadleaf forest', and 'mixed forest' classes from satellite imagery.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of 'developed areas' and 'mixed developed areas' relative to 'water bodies' for environmental impact studies.
• Use the 'exposed land/cut blocks/harvested areas' and 'transitional bare surfaces' classes to monitor land reclamation progress over time.
• Calculate the proportional area of 'agriculture areas' and 'grassland' within the pilot region for land-use planning models.
• Validate new land-cover classification algorithms against the established 13-class schema including 'shrub land' and 'shoal'.

Strengths

• Classification contains 13 distinct land-use and land-cover categories.
• Covers a defined pilot area spanning multiple townships and towns in Alberta.

Limitations

• Source imagery is from 2005, making the land-cover data potentially outdated for current analysis.
• Specific spatial resolution, row count, and accuracy metrics for the classification 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

Alberta, Canada, covering the Play-Based Regulation pilot area from Twp. 52, Rge. 7, W 5th Mer. to Twp. 70, Rge. 5, W 6th Mer., including towns like Edson and Whitecourt.