Soil Erosion Risk Assessment For Alberta Agricultural Land

2002 geospatial data from the Government of Alberta assesses soil erosion risk across the province's agricultural areas. It ranks risk from 0 (lowest) to 1 (highest) based on soil vulnerability and cultivation intensity. The resource was created using ArcGIS and is provided via WMS and ESRI REST services.

Use Cases

• Map soil erosion risk classes (0-1) to identify high-priority conservation areas in Alberta.
• Analyze the relationship between cultivation intensity and soil vulnerability scores for land use planning.
• Integrate erosion risk layers with other geospatial data to model watershed health and sediment transport.

Strengths

• Provides a province-wide assessment for Alberta's agricultural area.
• Risk is quantified on a defined ordinal scale from 0 (lowest) to 1 (highest).

Limitations

• The underlying data and model are from 2002, potentially not reflecting current land conditions.
• Specific methodology details, input data sources, and validation metrics are not provided in the description.
• Data is only available as map services (WMS, ESRI REST), not as a downloadable raw dataset for direct analysis.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta.

Collection Method

Created using ArcGIS, assessing risk from soil vulnerability and cultivation intensity.

Time Range

2002 (data creation).

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the core data creation date is 2002.

Geography

Agricultural areas of Alberta, Canada.