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This dataset is no longer maintained by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and should be considered as an archived product. For current estimates of the agricultural extent in Canada please refer to the Agricultural Ecumeme produced by Statistics Canada. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/92-639-X The Agriculture Extent of Canada derived from the AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) was obtained from the GeoGratis web site (www.geogratis.ca). All polygons with an area less than 50 Km sq were eliminated by GeoGratis before we received the data. This product allows the user to see the significant areas of cropland and rangeland across Canada. The Agriculture Extent of Canada derived from the AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) was obtained from the GeoGratis web site (www.geogratis.ca). All polygons with an area less than 50 Km sq were eliminated by GeoGratis before we received the data. This product allows the user to see the significant areas of cropland and rangeland across Canada.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Pre-packaged FGDB files (Bilingual)	Unknown		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/avhrrLandcover/data_donnees/fgdb/avhrr_ag_extent_gdb.zip
Pre-packaged GML files (Bilingual)	GeoJSON		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/avhrrLandcover/data_donnees/geoJSON/avhrr_ag_extent_geojson.geojson
Data Product Specification (English)	PDF		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/avhrrLandcover/supportdocument_documentdesupport/en/ISO_19131_Canada_Landcover_-_Derived_from_AVHRR_Data_Product_Specifications.pdf
Data Product Specification (French)	PDF		https://agriculture.canada.ca/atlas/data_donnees/avhrrLandcover/supportdocument_documentdesupport/fr/Couverture_terrestre_du_Canada_selon_les_donnees_ISO_19131.pdf

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