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The Cold Lake oil sands area, Township 56 to 69, Range 1 to 11, west of the 4th Meridian, falls within the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan (LARP). As part of Alberta's Land-use Framework, LARP was developed in 2012 to set the stage for robust growth, vibrant communities and a healthy environment within the region. One of its implementation objectives is to balance the economic development of oil sands and impacts on ecosystem and environment. This is to be achieved through enhanced science-based monitoring for improved characterization of the environment and collection of the information necessary to understand cumulative effects. For this digital data release, a land use and land cover classification dataset was derived from 2005 Landsat multispectral imagery for the Cold Lake Oil Sands area. The classification contains 13 classes: 0 - unclassified, 1 - exposed land/cut blocks/harvested areas, 2 - water bodies, 3 - transitional bare surfaces, 5 - mixed developed areas, 6 - developed areas, 7- shoal, 8 - shrub land, 9 - grassland, 10 - agriculture areas, 11 - coniferous forest, 12 - broad leaf forest, 13 - mixed forest, and 14- fire scar. These categories can be used as baseline data for planning, managing and monitoring surface infrastructure needs and impacts.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Land-use/Land-cover Classifications of the Cold Lake Oil Sands Area Derived from 2005 Landsat Imagery (Image data, Tiff format) - (HTML)	HTML		https://geodiscover.alberta.ca/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/a71a145223e3455092244d680bd3070c/html
Land-use/Land-cover Classifications of the Cold Lake Oil Sands Area Derived from 2005 Landsat Imagery (Image data, Tiff format) - (XML)	XML		https://geodiscover.alberta.ca/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/a71a145223e3455092244d680bd3070c/xml
Original metadata (https://open.alberta.ca/opendata)	HTML		https://open.alberta.ca/opendata/363a17e1-1d10-4497-af73-b402511dbfb9
Land-use/Land-cover Classifications of the Cold Lake Oil Sands Area Derived from 2005 Landsat Imagery (Image data, Tiff format) - (TIFF)	TIFF		https://static.ags.aer.ca/files/document/DIG/DIG_2015_0028.zip

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