Canadian Forest Earth Observation Products

  • This page describes a suite of nationally consistent, rigorously validated datasets detailing various Canadian forest attributes.

  • The datasets were developed by the remote sensing team at the Laurentian Forestry Centre of the Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada.

  • One featured dataset, SCANFI: the Spatialized CAnadian National Forest Inventory data product 1.2, provides 30m resolution raster files for 2020 covering broad land cover type, forest canopy height, crown closure, aboveground tree biomass, and species composition of major tree species across Canada.

Suite of nationally consistent, rigorously validated datasets describing multiple Canadian forest attributes. These high-quality datasets were developed by the remote sensing team at the Laurentian Forestry Centre of the Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada.