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The Grassland Inventory provides a standardized, high-resolution land cover classification for the grassland ecosystems in Canada. Developed using a random forest classification on multi-temporal Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 Optical imagery, the series differentiates intact native grasslands from high-disturbance, tame perennial forage systems; two classes that are spectrally and phenologically similar, yet critical to differentiate and quantify accurately for carbon and biodiversity modelling. Each release in the series includes a categorical 10 m land cover raster and a companion continuous likelihood layer representing model confidence in the native grassland class. As new classifications are added (semi-decadal) and geographic extent increased, the series will enable consistent temporal comparisons to track grassland dynamics and land cover change to support operational and research applications within AAFC and stakeholders.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Pre-packaged GeoTIF files (No linguistic component)	Unknown		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/grasslandInventory/
Data Product Specification (English)	PDF		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/grasslandInventory/supportdocument_documentdesupport/en/ISO_19131_Grassland_Inventory_-_Data_Product_Specification.pdf
Data Product Specification (French)	PDF		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/grasslandInventory/supportdocument_documentdesupport/fr/Couverture_terrestre_des_prairies _-_SPC_19131.pdf

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