Global Forest Resources Assessment

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
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Location


59° N; 116° W
Americas; Canada (Alberta)
Elevation of the tile center point: 795 m
Water consist 1.2% of block area



Biome/ecoregion


Boreal Forests/Taiga biome
Muskwa-Slave Lake forests ecoregion



External information resources


The Degree Confluence Project information



Tile outlines


 Tile outline 10x10km and 20x20km [KMZ]
 Tile outline 10x10km [SHP]
 Tile outline 20x20km [SHP]


Climate and Phenology


Köppen Climate Classification System


Continental, humid, cool summer


Temperature/Precipitation


Max temperature of warmest month (C°)

19

Min temperature of coldest month (C°)

-30

Annual precipitation (mm)

434


Phenology data

(MODIS-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index)


Maximum annual NDVI: 0.72

           Monthly NDVI (percent of maximum annual NDVI)

Land Cover Data


MODIS Tree canopy cover



                  Tree canopy cover

         0%

100%


      Tree canopy cover within the tile

mean

20.9%

median

21%

maximum

33%



Bare ground percent within the tile: 3.6%





 Download MODIS-derived tree canopy cover
    and SRTM water mask [GeoTIF]


 


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