Interactive Maps
Agri-Geomatics provides access to Web sites and tools dealing with land, soil, water, climate and biodiversity resources in Canada. These sites will be useful to all who share a concern about the health and safety of food and water, the growing demand for new products, and about environmentally sustainable food production.
AgriMap
AgriMap - Manitoba
AgriMap - Saskatchewan
AgriMap puts land and water information and tools into the hands of producers. Land-use decision makers have access a variety of information from soils to water features, land cover to high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery, as well as cities, roads, quarter-sections and more. This interactive mapping application has built-in tools to customize maps for simplifying land-use decision making.
Drought Watch Interactive Mapping
The Drought Watch Interactive Mapping application (DWIM) presents a series of agroclimate thematic maps depicting long-term "normals"
, or averages, for precipitation, temperature, growing degree days, and more. These long term trends are key to understanding the risk and potential impacts of drought in Canada.
Soils of Canada
These national scale thematic maps display the distribution and areal extent of soil attributes such as drainage, texture of parent material, kind of material, and classification of soils in terms of Soil Order and Great Group. The relief and associated slopes of the Canadian landscape are depicted on the local surface form thematic map.
Canadian Census of Agriculture - 2006 Map Series
The Census of Agriculture, conducted every five years by Statistics Canada, provides a comprehensive picture of agricultural activity in Canada.
Plant Hardiness Zones of Canada
The Plant Hardiness Zones map outlines the different zones in Canada where various types of trees, shrubs and flowers will most likely survive. It is based on the average climatic conditions of each area. The 1967 plant hardiness map was created by Agriculture Canada scientists using Canadian plant survival data and a wide range of climatic variables. The 2000 plant hardiness map was created by Natural Resources Canada's Canadian Forest Service using the same variables as the 1967 map and includes more recent climate data (1961-90).
Biomass Inventory Mapping and Analysis Tool
The Biomass Inventory Mapping and Analysis Tool (BIMAT) provides Internet-based GIS functionality to query and visualize biomass inventory data. It was developed to broaden our knowledge about the availability of Canadian herbaceous and woody opportunity biomass, as well as the spatial variability of this resource across the country. Users of the application will be able to make well-informed decisions based on spatially-explicit information that presents a comprehensive view of biomass quantity and opportunity in Canada. Biomass supply and location information is made available through a collection of thematic maps and interactive queries of the herbaceous and woody biomass databases.
Agro-Pedological Atlas of South Eastern Montreal Plain, Quebec
The Agro-Pedological Atlas is a set of interactive maps which show the characteristics, the fertility, the quality of the water regime, the vulnerability to degradation and the potential of the agricultural soils and land in the Monteregian region of the province of Quebec.
Agri-Environmental Indicators
The National Agri-Environmental Health Analysis and Reporting Program (NAHARP) assesses and reports on the agriculture sector's environmental performance via a set of Agri-Environmental Indicators (AEI). These indicators are intended to provide reliable, science-based information on the current state and changes in the conditions of the environment in agriculture at a national or regional scale.
Canada Land Inventory (Agriculture) Data Download
The Canada Land Inventory (CLI) is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary land inventory of rural Canada, covering over 2.5 million square kilometers of land and water. In the late 1990's, CanSIS converted the original CLI Agriculture datasets to a component-based file structure. This site provides access to those datasets.
Crop Condition Assessment Program
The Crop Condition Assessment Program (CCAP), developed and maintained by Statistics Canada in partnership with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, is an interactive application that uses low-resolution, digital satellite data during the growing season to monitor changing vegetation conditions in Western Canada and the United States.
National Ecological Framework for Canada
The National Ecological Framework for Canada is the result of the commitment and need to think, plan, and act in terms of ecosystems. This approach requires a consistent, national spatial context within which ecosystems at various levels of generalization can be described, monitored, and reported on. The use of such a framework of standard ecological units provides for common communication and reporting between different jurisdictions and disciplines.