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In 2010 the Earth Observation Team of the Science and Technology Branch (STB) at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) continued the process of generating annual crop inventory digital maps using satellite imagery. Focusing on the Prairie Provinces, a Decision Tree (DT) based methodology was applied using both optical (AWiFS, Landsat-5, DMC) and radar (RADARSAT-2) based satellite imagery, and having a final spatial resolution of 56m. Methods were also developed to enhance the optical classification with RADARSAT-2 imagery, addressing issues associated with cloud cover. In conjunction with satellite acquisitions, ground-truth information was provided by provincial crop insurance companies and point observations from our regional AAFC colleagues. The overall process for Crop Inventory Map includes: satellite data acquisition; field data acquisition for classification training and accuracy assessment; and, operational implementation of the classification methodology.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Annual Crop Inventory (English)	HTML		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/annual-crop-inventory
Pre-packaged GeoTIF files (No linguistic component)	Unknown		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/annualCropInventory/data_donnees/tif/2010/
Crop classifications	CSV		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/annualCropInventory/supportdocument_documentdesupport/aci_crop_classifications_iac_classifications_des_cultures.csv
Data Product Specification (English)	PDF		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/annualCropInventory/supportdocument_documentdesupport/en/ISO%2019131_AAFC_Annual_Crop_Inventory_Data_Product_Specifications.pdf
Data Product Specification (French)	PDF		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/annualCropInventory/supportdocument_documentdesupport/fr/Inventaire_annuel_des_cultures_d_AAC_Specifications_de_contenu_informationnel_produites_conformement_a_la_norme_ISO_19131.pdf
Annual Crop Inventory (French)	HTML		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/inventaire-annuel-cultures
Annual Crop Inventory 2010	Ersi REST		https://agriculture.canada.ca/imagery-images/rest/services/annual_crop_inventory/2010/ImageServer
Annual Crop Inventory 2010	Ersi REST		https://agriculture.canada.ca/imagery-images/rest/services/inventaire_annuel_des_cultures/2010/ImageServer

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