Yukon Forest Vegetation Inventory with Soil Nutrient Data

5,000 forest and vegetation stands delineated in the Yukon at a 1:5,000 operational scale. The inventory was completed between 2013 and 2014 using aerial imagery from 2007 and 2012, with soil nutrient regime data.

Use Cases

• Classify vegetation stands by soil nutrient regime for ecological modeling.
• Analyze forest inventory delineations from 1:5,000 scale imagery for land cover change detection.
• Integrate soil nutrient data with vegetation polygons for habitat suitability studies.
• Validate operational-level forest inventory accuracy against higher-resolution imagery.

Strengths

• Operational-level inventory at a detailed 1:5,000 mapping scale.
• Includes soil nutrient regime as a key ecological variable.
• Based on aerial imagery with ground sample distances as fine as 40 cm in some regions.

Limitations

• Sample data and column structure are unavailable for preview.
• Imagery sources vary in resolution and type (color/infrared vs. B/W) across regions.
• Temporal mismatch between inventory years (2013-2014) and source imagery (2007, 2012).

Provenance

Source

Government of Yukon, distributed via GeoYukon.

Collection Method

Delineation via softcopy from stereo aerial imagery.

Time Range

Inventory completed 2013-2014; source imagery from 2007 and 2012.

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Geography

Yukon, Canada, specifically Haines Junction region and southcentral Yukon.