March 1998
by L. st-Laurent
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This directory contains the vectorized land cover data.

See all individual describe and readme files.

-  Vectorized from raster using combination Pamap and arc/info processing.

-  Equivalent to about 1:2M scale.

-  Done originally for Agriculture Canada. (1992-3) - delivered in 
   pieces (one province  at a time - because of Arc/info limitations.

-  Used by Motorola (1996-1998) after conversion to geographic 
   projection in decimal seconds


-  Arc/info covers are in lambert conformal conic 49/77 with 
   origin at 49N 95W.  except for those in decimal degrees.

-  A few papers written
   mainly described in the one for GIS95 Vancouver conference 
   see Stefan Palko.

-  Generalized
  used by World Conservation Centre (1:7.5M)

-  Generalized to 35M for insert on a map (see stuff by KaRL SIMENSON)

-  All files are unix compressed.
-  All e00 files have no compression.

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F_CODE Class description ------ ------------------------ -------- ----------- 
1 Mixed forest 
2 Deciduous trees 
3 Water 
4 Transitional forest 
5 Coniferous forest 
6 Tundra 
7 Barren land 
8 Ice, snow 
9 Agr - cropland 
10 Agr - rangeland 
11 Built-up area