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Geological Survey of Canada
Open File 8380

Performance analysis of RapidEye multispectral land-cover mapping for the western coast of Hudson Bay, Nunavut

G.A. Oldenborger, O. Bellehumeur-Génier, A.-M. LeBlanc, and T. Tremblay

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources, 2018

Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.4095/311216

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Recommended citation

Oldenborger, G.A., Bellehumeur-Génier, O., LeBlanc, A.-M., and Tremblay, T., 2018. Performance analysis of RapidEye multispectral land-cover mapping for the western coast of Hudson Bay, Nunavut; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8380, 1 .zip file. https://doi.org/10.4095/311216

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Contents

This Open File reports on multi-spectral land cover mapping for the western coast of Hudson Bay, Nunavut. A report describing the methodology and results is provided in Adobe® pdf format. Land cover maps are delivered as geotiff files. Details of supervised classification results are provided as Microsoft® Excel and text files.

Directory structure

of_8380_readme.rtf (English version of this document)
of_8380.pdf (Open File report)
of_8380_Appendix_A.pdf (Open File Appendix A)
of_8380_LCMv1.tif (low resolution geotiff of land cover map, version 1)
of_8380_LCMv1_GIS.tif (floating point thematic raster of land cover map, version 1)
of_8380_LCMv2.tif (low resolution geotiff of land cover map, version 2)
of_8380_LCMv2_GIS.tif (floating point thematic raster of land cover map, version 2)
of_8380_LCMv3.tif (low resolution geotiff of land cover map, version 3)
of_8380_LCMv3_GIS.tif (floating point thematic raster of land cover map, version 3)
of_8380_LCM.xls (summary of supervised classification results)
of_8380_LCM.txt (summary of supervised classification results, tab delimited)

RapidEye Satellite Imagery © 2016 Planet Labs Inc.

Topographic data from the Canadian Digital Elevation Model, Natural Resources Canada, Edition 1.1, 2016-10-21, licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/7f245e4d-76c2-4caa-951a-45d1d2051333

Author contact information

G.A. Oldenborger (greg.oldenborger@canada.ca)
Geological Survey of Canada
601 Booth Street 
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8

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