Original Ecoforest Map of Québec from Third Inventory

An ecoforest map created from aerial photography and supplementary data sources, completed in 2003. It details forest and ecological characteristics of the territory as recorded at the time of photography, with format improvements applied in 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze forest and ecological characteristics to assess historical land cover and forest profiles.
• Integrate map layers on forest interventions and natural disturbances for ecological impact studies.
• Use aerial photography-derived stratification parameters for historical forest inventory validation.

Strengths

• Map is based on aerial photography and multiple supplementary data products for photointerpretation.
• Dataset format received improvements in 2025, enhancing accessibility in multiple file formats including GEOJSON and GPKG.

Limitations

• Cartographic information has not been updated since the map's completion in 2003, making it temporally stale.
• The dataset lacks metadata on specific column names, row counts, and sample data, limiting analytical precision.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec

Collection Method

Created from aerial photographs and products like forest intervention records and previous inventory data.

Time Range

Map corresponds to forest profile up to the year of aerial photography, with project completed in 2003.

Freshness

Data content finalized in 2003; metadata last updated 2026 03 25.

Geography

Forest territory of Québec, Canada.